Tom, Dick & Anubis

[Craig Clark]

Henry M writes:
 
>I have seen a book by P.K. Dick with Anubis in the title. I think the
>Anubis is one of the most important vessels, vehicles in GR,
>especially what with Tommy boy being a sailor man and all that. IMHO
>it's interesting that GR skirts around the word Gotterdamerung (or
>however you spell it) when the concept is so central to the book. And
>here is "Anubis" in the title of a book by an author who many feel
>parallels Pynchon. Curious.

I'll check Laurence Sutin's fine biography of Dick, _Divine 
Invasions: A Life of Philip K Dick_, but I think Henry may be 
mistaken here. However, _The Anubis Gates_ by Tim Powers won the 
Philip K Dick award when it was first published, a fact liberally 
splashed onto the covers of two paperback editions I've seen: 
possibly this is the source of Henry's error? I've got a copy of 
William Hope Hodgson's _The House on the Borderlands_ which - again, 
one suspects, as a marketing exercise - contrives to have the name of 
H P Lovecraft displayed on the cover in larger type than Hodgson's 
name.

BTW, Tim Powers, along with his buddy James Blaylock, was a good 
friend to Phil during the last years of Dick's troubled life. As for 
Blaylock, well, there's an author whose similarity to TRP could be 
explored further...

Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
 the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
 on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"