The Anubis Gates
core novel 1983 The Anubis Gates
Record
| First published | 1983 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.90 (18,271 ratings, collected 2026-09-15) |
| Page count | 387 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780441004010 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
In 1983, a wealthy, dying millionaire discovers a means of genuine time travel through a series of magical gaps between eras and organizes a secretive, expensive expedition to 1810 London to hear the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge deliver a lecture. Brendan Doyle, a professor of English literature hired as a Coleridge expert to guide and narrate the trip for the paying time-tourists, finds himself unexpectedly stranded in the nineteenth century when the return gate closes without him, then kidnapped by a sorcerer with designs that have nothing to do with Coleridge at all. Cut off from any easy way home, Doyle must navigate a dangerous underworld of body-swapping magicians, organized beggars and Regency-era criminals while trying to find a way back to his own time.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Anubis Gates
- Series: The Anubis Gates core; position 1 of 1 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Tim Powers
Awards (verified)
- Philip K. Dick Award (Best Novel), 1983: won
Notes
- From the series record (The Anubis Gates): Single stand-alone novel; treated as its own one-book series per this project's standard single-work convention.
Sources
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