Janus 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 past. It is conventionally thought that the month of January is named for Janus (Ianuarius), but according to ancient Roman farmers' almanacs Juno was the tutelary deity of the month. Janus presided over the beginning and ending of conflict, and hence war and peace. The gates of a building in Rome named after him (not a temple, as it
Doorways in the Sand but delicious.” Richard E. Geis in "Science Fiction Review" wrote that “at the end I was left vaguely unsatisfied,” but the novel had “Zelazny magic; that indefinable stylistic touch that makes him extremely readable.” "Locus" magazine’s Susan Wood wondered if Zelazny’s “promise would ever be fulfilled.” She described "Doorways" as “a well-written adventure,” and “fast enough, interesting enough, to carry any bedtime reader through arbitrary plotting to midnight and the loose-ends-tied-up conclusion.” Having read seven of Zelazny’s most recent books in one month, Richard Cowper in "Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction" lamented the loss of Zelazny as science