The Anubis Gates

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Call Number: Science Fiction / Powers, Tim, Adult Book / Fiction / Science Fiction / General / Powers, Tim
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Science Fiction / Powers, Tim	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Science Fiction / General / Powers, Tim	4-week checkout	On Shelf

A novel of time travel that combines action and adventure with the surreal and bizarre.

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Adventure and poetry submitted by cherylo on July 23, 2011, 8:14am This may be my favorite time travel novel ever; it is certainly up there. It's probably too long and complex to be made into a movie, but I would surely like to see an attempt at it. A fast-paced adventure.

Excellent time travel plotting. submitted by eknapp on February 21, 2014, 6:08pm A portly, balding, and very skeptical poetry scholar is hired by a billionaire to guide a tour to attend a reading by Samuel Taylor Coleridge himself in a 19th century English pub. He's shocked when the time travel works as promised. He's more shocked when he's kidnapped in 1811 London and misses his one chance to return to contemporary America.

He's dogged by a 3000 year-old sorcerer whose goal is Egypt's return to world supremacy, a murderous billionaire who thinks our hero stayed in ye olde London on purpose, a demonic beggar king who dresses like a jester and maims his underlings so that they will inspire more pity, and an insane body-switching ex-wizard who wants the protagonist's body. It's quite the menagerie. At various points our paunchy academic finds himself tortured, shot, working as a professional beggar, tortured some more, living as a cobbler, inhabiting a new and far superior body, traveling to Egypt, traveling to 1632, and composing verse.

Coherent time travel books are hard to do right. The Anubis Gates succeeds.

had all the right ingredients, just didn't gel for me submitted by apknapp on June 27, 2023, 5:27pm I struggled to track all the divergent threads and duplicate/misnamed/bodyhopping characters. A few scene changes were so jarring they gave me whiplash (at least one had no discernable bearing on the actual story arc and I'm sure was just there to confuse me). I probably would've done better with a physical book instead of an audio book, so I could flip back to reorient myself as needed. There was a lot here that seemed potentially fun, I just wish it had hung together better for me.