The Anubis Gates - Couverture souple

Powers, Tim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 009963421X ISBN 13 : 9780099634218

Editeur : Legend, 1997

Synopsis

Ancient Egyptian magic reaches into the London of 1810 as literary scholar Brendan Doyle heads there from the late-20th century via a time-travel device. The centuries collide in a chiaroscuro of stories featuring characters such as Horrobin the clown and Dog-Face Joe the werewolf.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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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Praise for Tim Powers

“Powers has all the writing skills needed to dazzle...[he] writes action and adventure that Indiana Jones could only dream of. And, just when it threatens to get out of hand, there's a dash of humor and irony that keeps you ready for the joy of it.”—The Washington Post

“Tim Powers is a genius.”—Algis Budrys, Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy

“The best fantasy writer to appear in decades.”—Manchester Guardian

“Powers deserves wider attention.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“No author alive can take such notions and make them so utterly believable. No one but Tim Powers.”—David Brin

“One of those writers with an utterly unique voice and sense of vision.”—OtherRealms

“Tim Powers is a name to be reckoned with.”—Science Fiction Chronicle

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Legend
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 009963421X
• ISBN 13: 9780099634218
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 464
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible