![]() Using this knowledge, he continues to thwart the magicians' plans. He copies down Ashbless's poetry from memory and deduces his own future from his study of Ashbless's life. In his new body, Doyle realizes that he himself is the historical Ashbless. Doyle himself becomes targeted by Joe, receiving the poisoned body of Darrow's former bodyguard, but manages to cure himself of the poison. At the same time, Doyle discovers that Darrow has remained in the 19th century to search for Dog-Face Joe, a body-swapping werewolf, in hopes of bribing Joe into granting him a healthy new body. Doctor Romany scours the city for Doyle with his legion of murderous beggars, led by the clown-magician Horrabin. ![]() He plans to meet and befriend William Ashbless, a wealthy poet that Doyle has studied profusely, in order to gain a benefactor. Doyle manages to escape torture and flees back to London, now trapped in the 19th century.ĭoyle joins a beggars' guild and meets a beggar named Jacky. One of the magicians, Doctor Romany, happens to spy the time travelers and kidnaps Doyle before he can return. 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. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.The Anubis Gates is a 1983 time travel fantasy novel by American writer Tim Powers. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content. ![]()
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