All rights reserved. It never actually gets created, so how did it exist in the first place? Some of the descriptions baulk a little and feel more like a caricature of other people's writing rather than the product of first-hand research, but overall I felt it was easy enough to suspend disbelief and get into the occasionally confusing storyline. As John Tim Powers' fourth novel, 1983's "The Anubis Gates," is a book that I had been meaning to read for years. #166/525. I can’t wait to check out more of Tim Powers clever books; highly recommended. Tiny “spoonsize” boys
This is typical of his books and means concentration is definitely required to fully keep track of what's going on.
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Horrific stilt walking clowns . Powers puts it all into a tasty recipe. Magicians, scary clowns on springs, half men/dog beings giving chase to our reluctant hero who tries to use his future knowledge to help him get back home.Wonderfully written.
Not bad weird, not necessarily good weird, just a bit odd.
[The poem Doyle/Ashbless wrote was one of the larger sources of questionable logic. Still, a strong action novel, well researched, and very different from most books that fall under the umbrella of `time-travel'. Buy The Anubis Gates (FANTASY MASTERWORKS) by Powers, Tim from Amazon's Fiction Books Store. I found that the plot moved along at a fair pace and despite various complicated things happening it wasn't hard to follow. I think this is the kind of book that would be perfect for someone looking to spread their wings from Tolkien-style fantasy too, try something different and take a look at this book. It's just such a weird mishmash of science fiction and fantasy and the just plain odd. Time travel, gypsies, love story, fantasy, intrigue......The Anubis Gates has it all. But most disappointing to me was that Powers basically copped out on providing any answer to the philosophical question that time travel almost necessarily entails: if you go back in time, are all your actions from that point on totally pre-determined (else history would change), is there some wiggle room for self-determination if the actions were never documented; or can history be changed and a new universe born? I saw this story adapted for the stage, and, while I lost the thread somewhere in the middle, I did enjoy the humour and the performance.
Would def. I'll explain why. There are a fair number of characters to track and to keep everything straight in your mind when there are time leaps happening proved to be a bit of a challenge, but not so much that it interfered too badly with enjoying the story. In Anubis Gates, there's a lot of the above. This is a wonderful, exciting book crammed with ideas, and great fun to read with the story continuing to surprise until the very end. They end up retreading old ground and relying on long-dead cliches because they aren't aware of what's already been done. Twenty stars!! Some of the images and ideas of this book are excellent, from little four inch high men to a valid, believable werewolf.
The Anubis Gate doesn’t have many ulterior motives or deep meanings, apart from trying to constantly entertain the reader. The Anubis Gates is Tim Powers' breakout novel, first published in 1983.. The plausible time travel adventure of Brendan Doyle is a roller coaster ride, which, over the last twenty years I've ridden again and again and have never got bored.
His trip down the river toward the end which he believes the poem refers to happens after he’s written it from memory. Second, I don't know poetry much, least of all early English 19th century poetry. The Anubis Gates is a 1983 time travel fantasy novel by American writer Tim Powers. I'm happy to say that it was a good adaptation. A throughly enjoyable and very well paced read with great characterisation, you will really feel for the protagonists and antagonists, full of surprises from beginning to end. Then away they floats in their eggshell boats, down the drains to their underground world.” One big time travel conundrum, from present day America (well, 1983 as this is when the book was written) to the start of 19th century London, Egypt, and even back to 17th century London for a while!
The list I took it from has it tagged as sci-fi, which I began to doubt from, oh, about page 1. And, as it turns out, all the ballyhoo back when was fully justified, as this really IS some kind of superb work. See our latest video for the song “Black”. In the last third of the book, there's so much body switching and name changing that I had trouble telling who was who.
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