There have been a few threads like this. Perhaps we can post all of our book questions in this thread. Or maybe not. Here’s my “name the book” question:
It’s sci-fi. A writer goes back in time, so the story takes place in England in the 1800’s. There is a homunculus and the dogs of hell figure in the plot. I remember at one point the protagonist is poisoned so he eats charcoal.
I’m almost sure this book wasn’t a hallucination on my part.
That sounds like something an author named James Blaylock would do.
He even wrote a book called “Homunculus”…and most of his stuff involves time travel.
http://www.sybertooth.com/blaylock/
Are you into “steampunk”? (Sort of cyberpunk set in Victorian times). It would have to be him or someone like him.
Blaylock is a good guess, but I think that’s Tim Power’s “The Anubis Gates.” It’s the back in time element that differentiates it, but I do recall the charcoal scene (it’s on page 188 of the paperback edition).
Yes! The Anubis Gates! That’s it! Thanks.
I love you guys.
Hmmm…how many books about homunculi are there???
I suppose that will be a question for another day…