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* `The Anubis Gates' - Probably Powers' most popular book, and winner of the Philip K. Dick Award. An Egyptian magician, realising that magic is gradually becoming ineffective (the spread of Christianity somehow having a magic-suppressing effect) , calls on Anubis? in an attempt to stop this process: the attempt fails disastrously but something happens. The story moves to the present day, where a millionaire is organising an expedition into the past: his researchers have discovered `gates' opening in predictable times and places, where time travel is possible (the result of the failed magical ceremony centuries earlier). The hero, an expert on an obscure 19th century poet, William Ashbless is one of those who wind up in early 19th century London. The plot is far too complicated to summarise here, featuring Byron?, [Samuel Taylor Coleridge]?, time travel paradoxes and a further jump to a frozen 17th century London. One thing is evident, Powers is having a lot of fun with this novel, and the reader generally does too... |
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* `The Anubis Gates' - Probably Powers' most popular book, and winner of the Philip K. Dick Award. An Egyptian magician, realising that magic is gradually becoming ineffective (the spread of Christianity somehow having a magic-suppressing effect) , calls on Anubis? in an attempt to stop this process: the attempt fails disastrously but something happens. The story moves to the present day, where a millionaire is organising an expedition into the past: his researchers have discovered `gates' opening in predictable times and places, where time travel is possible (the result of the failed magical ceremony centuries earlier). The hero, an expert on an obscure 19th century poet, William Ashbless is one of those who wind up in early 19th century London. The plot is far too complicated to summarise here, featuring Byron, [Samuel Taylor Coleridge]?, time travel paradoxes and a further jump to a frozen 17th century London. One thing is evident, Powers is having a lot of fun with this novel, and the reader generally does too... |
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* `The Stress of Her Regard' - concerning the dealings of the [Romantic poets]? - Byron? and Shelley? are major characters - with vampire-like creatures from Greek mythology. |
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* `The Stress of Her Regard' - concerning the dealings of the [Romantic poets]? - Byron and Shelley are major characters - with vampire-like creatures from Greek mythology. |
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Powers and James Blaylock invented the poet William Ashbless. |
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