"Cyber Punk" 3-27-19, week 11

"CyberPunk and SteamPunk"
Week 11
3-27-17

This week I chose to read "the Anubis Gates" written by Tim Powers is a science fiction steampunk novel.  Going into this book, I did not know what to expect.  Upon reading the prologue and the first chapter it describes Amenophis Fikee arriving to the gypsy camp in the year 1802, who tells the men to move this very old looking crate to a character named Doctor Romany.  The two prepare for a spell the magical creation of this ware wolf that was accidental which eventually leads to the opening of the Anubis Gates. Following in chapters 2 and 3, Doyle begins a journey to attend a Coleridge's lecture and notices a gypsy caravan that is following them in their horse-drawn carriages, when arriving, realizing that they messed up what week Colderide is speaking which is a week from then.  Doyle eventually convinces Colderide to speak after the banquet, but meanwhile while Doyle tries to get the carriages for them, but on his way he got kidnapped, as he sees a bald headed gypsy that Benner told him about.  Romany carries his body to the carriage and they begin to leave.  A dwarf named Dungy is introduced while they see this large, subterranean grotto with the lords hanging in large swings that hang high above the ground. Dungy was ordered to sing, Romany arrives and informs that the reward for Dog Face Joe , which is a werewolf, is going to be a large reward for someone with Doyles description.  Eventually, Doyle finds himself as a beggar like Dumb Tom. But he was attacked on the street by a group, while one tries to stab him, Horrabin's men saves him and brings him to Horrabin, but he escapes with one of them secretly following him while Doyle flee's but is very wounded and ill.

I believe in chapter 7 when Doyle wakes up and realizes he has to visit with Romany if he wants to get back home was the turning point of his character, showing that he has been through enough in my opinion, and just wants to return home to the normal world.  He cleverly came up with an idea to put a pistol that he puts around his neck so if Romany decides to try to torture him, he can commit suicide.  He stupidly gets his own ear shot off in a chain of events that happened and waits it out until he hears a whistle two days later, but examines the bullet and realizes that it is a 20th century bullet, and he finds out that the thing that was whistling is Steerforth Benner.

Romany talks about when Fikee became Dog Face Joe and when he lost his mind and even his magic.  He realizes the men of Darrow came through a hole in time and saw the changes of using this tool in the future.  Doyle, now being in the body of Brenner to ask questions that break the spell of his brainwashing.  Romany calculated the coordinates that they needed to ump back in time while Doyle continues to hunt for him. They end up setting themselves back to the year 1648 where the guys both crash into nice banquet tables.

I personally love the time travel aspect of the book and how theres always something going on in this book.  With all that is going on with senior thesis and my senior at show this is as far as i got in this book until I have the time to pick it up again.