Author Tim Powers evokes 17th-century England with a combination of
meticulously researched historic detail and imaginative flights in this
sci-fi tale of time travel. Winner of the 1984 Philip K. Dick Award for
best original science fiction paperback, this 1989 edition of the book
that took the fantasy world by storm is the first hardcover version to
be published in the United States. In his brief introduction, Ramsey
Campbell sets The Anubis Gates in an adventure context, citing Powers's
achievement of "extraordinary scenes of underground horror, of comedy
both high and grotesque, of bizarre menace, of poetic fantasy."

The colonization of Egypt by western European powers is the launch point
for power plays and machinations. Steeping together in this time-warp
stew are such characters as an unassuming Coleridge scholar, ancient gods,
wizards, the Knights Templar, werewolves, and other quasi-mortals, all
wrapped in the organizing fabric of Egyptian mythology. In the best of
fantasy traditions, the reluctant heroes fight for survival against an
evil that lurks beneath the surface of their everyday lives.

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