The Friday Face-Off: Time

The Friday Face-Off was created by Books by Proxy, where each week bloggers can showcase books with covers centered around a weekly theme. You can visit Lynn’s Books for a list of upcoming themes. Join in the fun each Friday by finding a book whose cover is based on the theme!

This week’s theme: Time – time waits for no one.

This was an easy theme, and there were plenty of books to choose from. I decided to go way back in time (ha ha) and feature The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers, which is an Egypt-centric time travel fantasy. There are a TON of covers and a lot of them are really good! Bonus: several have clocks on the cover which fits in with the “time” theme. Here we go:

Ace Books edition 1997 | Mark V. Ziesing edition 1990 | Ace Books edition 1983

Harper Collins edition 1993 | Dutch edition 2013 | French edition 1986

Russian edition 2018 | Croatian edition 2012 | Legend edition 1997

Polish edition 1997 | Serbian edition 2011 | Czech edition 2019

For me, it’s a toss-up among the Russian, Polish and Serbian editions, and they are all so different! But ultimately, I’m drawn to the Polish edition the most:


Which cover is your favorite? Have you read The Anubis Gates?

Posted June 19, 2020 by Tammy in The Friday Face-Off / 14 Comments

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14 responses to “The Friday Face-Off: Time

  1. I love the cover you chose, it looks like a movie poster – as does the Ace cover on the first row which is also really good, but my favourite is the Czech.
    Lynn 😀

  2. The Captain

    I absolutely love this book! I weirdly don’t like any of these covers. So I will go with the Ace cover since that was on the copy I read. Arrr!

  3. What a great choice for this week! I haven’t read this one, and I need to get hold of it as I’m a sucker for time travel stories AND I like Powers’ writing. I found this a difficult decision – I’m torn between your favourite, the Polish cover which immediately caught my eye and the Harper Collins offering.

  4. Margo

    I like the Czech one. I think maybe because of the colors. And the balance. The Polish one is so different that it stands out. Caught my eye too 🙂

  5. Great set of covers! I’ve not read this one, and I don’t think I’ve tried anything yet by Tim Powers. I think my favorite cover is the Ace 1983 edition. I like the sinister mystery of it.

  6. Never heard of this book, but those covers are giving me some massive Stargate vibes (which makes sense if it’s Egypt-centric haha). I love how different all the covers are for this one, but I think this time I’m going to have to go with the Russian cover! I’m not even sure what it is about it, but it just grabs my attention!

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