Janus He appears selfless and compassionate but, in truth, is power-hungry, amoral, and without regard for the well-being of others. In the 1987 thriller novel "The Janus Man" by British novelist Raymond Harold Sawkins, Janus is used as a metaphor for a Soviet agent infiltrated into British Secret Intelligence Service - "The Janus Man who faces both East and West". Janus In ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus (; ("Iānus"), ) is the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, and endings. He is usually depicted as having two faces, since he looks to the future and to the
Doorways in the Sand critic stated, “It seems like grandstanding, and it gets in the way of my enjoyment of the story. . . . It makes it easy to identify with a protagonist who doesn’t know what’s going on either, but it’s irritating.” However, Fred Kiesche of "SF Signal" felt that “The magic of the plot [is] where you’re never sure of what exactly is going on.” Zelazny has been repeatedly referred to as a prose-poet. However, there does not appear to be agreement about the true nature of his prose. Geis writes that "Doorways" "is written with the Zelazny magic; that indefinable