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The Anubis Gate is the classic time travel novel that took the fantasy world by storm a decade ago. Only the dazzling imagination of Tim Powers could have created such as adventure. nTake a dazzling journey through time with Tim Powers classic, Philip K. Dick Award-winning tale... nThere have been other novels in the genre about time travel, but none with The Anubis Gates unique slant on the material, nor its bottomless well of inventiveness. Its literally in a class by itself, a model for others to follow, and its easy to see how it put Powers on the map.--SF Reviews n nBrendan Doyle, a specialist in the work of the early-nineteenth century poet William Ashbless, reluctantly accepts an invitation from a millionaire to act as a guide to time-travelling tourists. But while attending a lecture given by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1810, he becomes marooned in Regency London, where dark and dangerous forces know about the gates in time. n nCaught up in the intrigue between rival bands of beggars, pursued by Egyptian sorcerers, and befriended by Coleridge, Doyle somehow survives and learns more about the mysterious Ashbless than he could ever have imagined possible...n
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