The Anubis Gates
Publisher: Hachette UK
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
This is a London filled with deformed clowns, organised beggar societies, insane homunculi and magic.
This is a London filled with deformed clowns, organised beggar societies, insane homunculi and magic.
Jacky and the girl she rescued, united in the need to banish their pursuing ghosts, learn that their only hope is to flee upriver to the barge known as Nobody's Home where the exorcist whose name is Nobody charges an intolerable price.
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... The Anubis Gates The temporal journeys of Blaylock's St. Ives share a kinship with the time hopping in Tim Powers's The Anubis Gates. But there is even less attention to ideology in The Anubis Gates, radical, anarchist, or humanitarian ...
... The Anubis Gates, despite the occasional chilling Chestertonian whimsy, is radiant with the ambience of his genius. The villains of the piece – like Horrabin, the beggarking on stilts, halfimmolated by the energy of his own ...
... The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers, 1997) • Time travel (reference The Anubis Gates, Powers) • Beings similar to those found in historically set horror or urban fantasy – in fact, think Victorian urban fantasy – like vampires and werewolves ...
... The Anubis Gates with the more obvious and unabashedly positive racial elements in War for the Oaks. If both works are true products of our times, what does this say about the state of ethnic relations in the 1980s or the late twentieth ...
... The Anubis Gates (1983), Jeter's Morlock Night and Infernal Devices, and Blaylock's Lord Kelvin's Machine. All three authors, each in his own way and in his own style, were writing a form of alternative history based in Victorian times ...
... The Anubis Gates in his ground - breaking ver- sion of the steampunk mode he developed with his friends James Blaylock and K. W. Jeter . Anubis Gates involves time travel to an alternative Victorian London with guest appearances by Cole ...