He hires Professor Brendan Doyle to attend and give expert commentary. Darrow organizes a trip to the past for fellow millionaires to attend a lecture by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1810. Cochran Darrow has discovered the gates and found that they make time travel possible. In 1802, a failed attempt by the magicians to summon Anubis opens magical gates in a predictable pattern across time and space. A cabal of magicians plan to drive the British out of Egypt by bringing the gods forward in time from an age when they were still powerful and unleashing them on London, thereby destroying the British Empire. In 1801 the British have risen to power in Egypt and suppress the worship of the old Egyptian gods. The novel was influenced by Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor, and to a lesser degree by the works of Charles Dickens. The plot concerns a professor of English who participates in a time travel experiment and ends up trapped in the 19th Century. Dick Award and 1984 Science Fiction Chronicle Award.
I’ve always taken it as a given that magic is bad for you, and that if you mess with it a lot it will damage and diminish you.The Anubis Gates is a 1983 time travel fantasy novel by American writer Tim Powers. Fascinating look into his perspective, like this quote Powers was interviewed by the blog of a Jesuit book publisher (Ignatius Press), in it he discusses his deep Catholic faith and its impact on his world view and writing. The interview I read today wasn't contemporaneous with The Anubis Gates but its fascinating nonetheless. I'm hoping that will change as I get deeper into it.įor each of our Book Club reads I like to dig around find contemporary reviews and author interviews. A dead wife, a stewardess, and nameless "girls" Doyle has slept with are the only women of note mentioned. Powers is quick to dollop out hints and clues as to the plot ahead, I've been well spoiled for this novel but I think the first chapter of Doyle on the plane set up a lot of the events and characters for the rest of the novel.Ī fun compelling book so far, but I'm on pg 83 of my epub copy and its a bit of a sausage-fest.
The book cracks right along in the opening chapter or two, and we get thrown in with a few different POVs. I've read another of Tim Powers's books so I'm passingly familiar with his style. I've just started the book and its a first time read for me. Hey guys, gals, and non-binary pals first day of July and The Book Club is starting The Anubis Gates, by Tim Powers.
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