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A best-selling novel of time travel by a two-time winner of the Philip K. Dick Award combines action and adventure with the surreal and bizarre. By the author of Dinner at Deviant's Palace. Reprint. Now celebrating 40 years in print—take a dazzling journey through time with Tim Power's classic, Philip K. Dick Award-winning tale...“There have been other novels in the genre about time travel, but none with The Anubis Gates'unique slant on the material, nor its bottomless well of inventiveness. It's literally in a class by itself, a model for others to follow, and it's easy to see how it put Powers on the map.”—SF ReviewsBrendan Doyle, a specialist in the work of the early-nineteenth century poet William Ashbless, reluctantly accepts an invitation from a millionaire to act as a guide to time-travelling tourists. But while attending a lecture given by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1810, he becomes marooned in Regency London, where dark and dangerous forces know about the gates in time. Caught up in the intrigue between rival bands of beggars, pursued by Egyptian sorcerers, and befriended by Coleridge, Doyle somehow survives and learns more about the mysterious Ashbless than he could ever have imagined possible...

Ace Books is proud to present this classic novel of time travel in a beautiful new trade edition. It took the fantasy world by storm a decade ago, and now fans can savor this Philip K. Dick Award-winner for the first time all over again. Only the dazzling imagination of Tim Powers could have assembled such an insane cast of characters: an ancient Egyptian sorcerer, a modern millionaire, a body-switching werewolf, a hideously deformed clown, a young woman disguised as a boy, a brainwashed Lord Byron, and finally, our hero, Professor Brendan Doyle.

Tim Powers......Page 1 PROLOGUE: FEBRUARY 2,1802......Page 2 CHAPTER 1......Page 11 CHAPTER 2......Page 34 CHAPTER 3......Page 50 CHAPTER 4......Page 59 CHAPTER 5......Page 78 CHAPTER 6......Page 98 CHAPTER 7......Page 121 CHAPTER 8......Page 150 CHAPTER 9......Page 174 CHAPTER 10......Page 201 CHAPTER 11......Page 218 CHAPTER 12......Page 232 CHAPTER 13......Page 245 CHAPTER 14......Page 260 CHAPTER 15......Page 267 EPILOGUE—APRIL 12,1846......Page 295 FROM BETWEEN TWO trees at the crest of the hill a very old man watched, with a nostalgic longing he thought he'd lost all capacity for, as the last group of picnickers packed up their baskets, mounted their horses, and rode away south-they moved a little hastily, for it was a good six miles back to London, and the red sun was already silhouetting the branches of the trees along the River Brent, two miles to the west. An ancient Egyptian sorcerer, a modern millionaire, a body-switching werewolf, a hideously deformed clown, a young woman disguised as a boy, a brainwashed Lord Byron, and finally, the protagonist Professor Brendan Doyle, who wanted none of this nonsense. A novel of time travel that combines action and adventure with the surreal and bizarre