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 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