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The Anubis Gates

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The Anubis Gates

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Author: Tim Powers
Publisher: Ace Books, 1983
Chatto & Windus, 1983
Series: The Anubis Gates: Book 1

0. Nobody's Home
1. The Anubis Gates

Book Type: Novel
Genre: Fantasy
Sub-Genre Tags: Alternate History (Fantasy)
Historical Fantasy
Dark Fantasy
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Synopsis

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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