Featuring diverse magicians, competing beggars’ camps, body-swapping ape-men, and other kinds of craziness, this story has a lot going on.
The writing is outstanding, and the plot twists will keep you guessing the next events. This is an intriguing story that vividly depicts life in the early 1800s. Will Brendan manage to get himself and the rest of the team out of this situation? How will he survive all the dark forces that seem determined to eliminate him? Brendan gets a chance to learn more about the Ashbless than he ever thought possible. While there is nothing funny about being unable to return to his time. Here, he will be confronted by dark forces that know everything about the time-travel gates, get to meet and become friends with Coleridge, and witness rivaling beggars, among other bizarre events. However, as is common in time-traveling stores, something goes wrong, and Brendan gets stick in the early-nineteenth-century London. The returns are handsome, and given his love for everything Coleridge and his contemporary, William Ashbless, Brendan figures that this trip will be worth all the risks.īrendan’s role is to guide time-traveling tourists and get a chance to attend Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s lecture in 1810. Brendan is offered this job by a crazy millionaire who has been paid a million dollars by each of his rich clients looking to attend Coleridge’s lecture of 1805.
It is 1983, and the California-based professor reluctantly accepts to take part in a time-travel trip that will take him over one century back. This story features Brendan Doyle, a specialist in nineteenth-century English literature. The Anubis Gates is the first book in the Anubis Gates series. When he is not writing, Powers teaches high school students part-time in addition to mentoring upcoming science fiction/ fantasy authors. Power’s list of published works has grown over the years to include over one hundred fantasy novels. The New-York born author studied English Literature and published his first novels in the 1970s. However, he also incorporates supernatural factors that give his stories a unique twist and offer a refreshing feel of historical events. Powers has written a lot about secret histories, which means that his works feature famous people and documented historical events. Tim Powers is a fantasy author best known for his award-winning novels, The Annubis Gates, Declare, and Last Call.
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