Powers, Tim

• The Anubis Gates (5)

  • This is a rather muddled time travel novel, mixing historical fiction (real characters such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge ... why does it seem every mischievous speculative fiction character who was alive in the 19th century claims to have had a hand in the famous interruption of "Kubla Khan" by the mysterious "person on business from Porlock"?) with good and evil characters from the distant past and present. In this case, the villain is an ancient Egyptian sorceror up to no good, and the good guy is, well, constantly changing thanks to a body-switching plot device that is somewhat confusing if, like me, you don't read this book over a very short span of time. I say no more other than that this sort of action-adventure time travel business was done far more effectively, in my opinion, my Simon Hawke is his lengthy "Time Wars" series.

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