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The Anubis Gates

Tim Powers

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#963 of 8,085 books · #168 in Fantasy

Won the Philip K. Dick Award (1984). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 2 other awards.

Brendan Doyle is a twentieth-century English professor who travels back to 1810 London to attend a lecture given by English romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This is a London filled with deformed clowns, organised beggar societies, insane homunculi and magic. When he is kidnapped by gypsies and consequently misses his return trip to 1983, the mild-mannered Doyle is forced to become a street-smart con man, escape artist, and swordsman in order to survive in the dark and treacherous London underworld. He defies bullets, black magic, murderous beggars, freezing waters, imprisonment in mutant-infested dungeons, poisoning, and even a plunge back to 1684. Coleridge himself and poet Lord Byron make appearances in the novel, which also features a poor tinkerer who creates genetic monsters and a werewolf that inhabits others' bodies when his latest becomes too hairy.

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Publisher
Chatto & Windus
ISBN-13
9780575101821
Topics
Time travelMagic and the supernaturalSurvival in a dangerous underworld

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