# The Anubis Gates

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- Book: [The Anubis Gates](https://www.bookquiver.com/tim-powers/the-anubis-gates) ([The Anubis Gates.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/tim-powers/the-anubis-gates.md))
- Authors: [Tim Powers](https://www.bookquiver.com/tim-powers)
- Publisher: Gollancz
- ISBN: 978-05-7507-725-6
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2005-09-08
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Brendan Doyle is a twentieth-century English professor who travels back to 1810 London to attend a lecture given by English romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This is a London filled with deformed clowns, organised beggar societies, insane homunculi and magic. When he is kidnapped by gypsies and consequently misses his return trip to 1983, the mild-mannered Doyle is forced to become a street-smart con man, escape artist, and swordsman in order to survive in the dark and treacherous London underworld. He defies bullets, black magic, murderous beggars, freezing waters, imprisonment in mutant-infested dungeons, poisoning, and even a plunge back to 1684. Coleridge himself and poet Lord Byron make appearances in the novel, which also features a poor tinkerer who creates genetic monsters and a werewolf that inhabits others' bodies when his latest becomes too hairy.