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Description edit
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.
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Characters/People edit
- Horrabin, the sorcerer-clown: An upstart London sorcerer, tutored in the arts of magic by an old Egyptian conjurer. Delights in mutilation, gallows humor. Very dangerous to be around.
- Doctor Romany: A "ka" (double - a constructed doppelganger, in the book) that leads a band of gypsies and teaches Horrabin the ways of magic.
- William Ashbless: A minor poet, with a leonine head of hair and an athlete's build. His relationship with the book's protagonist is one of the major plot points.
- Elizabeth Tichy: Well-bred girl masquerading as a homeless boy, out to get revenge.
- Brendan Doyle: The chief protagonist: a time-travelling scholar recently bereft of his wife, who finds that time travel is very real indeed.
- Jacky: A street-savvy youth who turns out to be more than meets the eye.
- J. Cochran Darrow: A cancer-ridden billionaire who discovered a means of time travel.
- Benner: A ruthless young scholar employed by Darrow.
- Doctor Romanelli: An Egyptian sorcerer working towards a return of the Old Gods.
- Byron: Lord Byron, a romantic poet who's touring the eastern mediterranean in 1810.
- Carrington: A thug employed by Horrabin the clown.
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- Dog-face Joe
- Dungy
- Coleridge
- Damnable Richard
- Wilbur
- Chinnie
- Stowell
- Rebecca
- Kusiak
- Ameen
- Kenny
- Bailey
- Master
- Murray
- Burghard
- Boaz
- Ahmed
- Maturo
- Amenophis Fikee
- Chris
- Tewfik
- Jenkin
- Elizabeth Jacqueline Tichy
- Colin
- Meg
- Lawrence
- Charles
- Miller
First Sentence edit
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.
Table of Contents edit
Prologue: February 2, 1802
Book One: The Face Under the Fur
Book Two: The Twelve Hours of the Night
Epilogue: April 12, 1846
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Significant Speculative Fiction (Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror). (community list)
This book is in Hopeless Romantic. (community list)
This is book 93 of 157 in Fantasy Book Review Top 100 fantasy books of all time. (community list)
Preceded by Darkest Hour, and followed by Ravensoul.
This is book 88 of 200 in Newman and Jones 200 Best Horror Novels. (community list)
Preceded by In a Lonely Place, and followed by The Arabian Nightmare.
This is book 47 of 37 in Millennium/Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks. (edition-based publisher list)
Preceded by Sea Kings of Mars and Other Wordly Stories, and followed by The Forgotten Beasts of Eld.
This is book 26 of 40 in SFBC 50th Anniversary Collection. (edition-based publisher list)
Preceded by Ender's Game, and followed by Blood Music.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Tim Powers (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
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Publication Date: 1983
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Publication Date: 1983
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Awards edit
- Philip K. Dick Award (1983)
- Locus Fantasy Award (Finalist, 1984: Best Fantasy Novel, Nominee)
- BSFA (British Science Fiction Association) (Finalist, 1985: Best Novel)
Classification edit
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- Dewey: 813.54
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