Tim Powers has the most fertile imagination of any author I’ve read in the past couple of years. I read his The Drawing of the Dark and enjoyed it well enough to pick up The Anubis Gate. It’s an excellent yarn about a time travelling literary critic who happens by chance into the machinations of ancient egyptian sorcerers, an evil clown on stilts in 1870’s London, a wealthy 80’s industrialist who aspires to immortality and world domination, and some of the literary figures of mid 19th century europe. Two thumbs up on the dave scale – it’s by no means an all time classic but definitely worth considering for a weeks light entertainment.