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 Amber series, Krulik identifies space opera, mystery and fairy tale elements in "Nine Princes in Amber"; tales of knighthood and allegory in "The Guns of Avalon"; drawing-room mystery in "Sign of the Unicorn"; and, as in "Doorways", "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" in "The Courts of Chaos"." "Doorways" is a science fiction novel with mystery and comic elements that evokes and offers homage to Lewis Carroll’s "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland", "Through the Looking-Glass", and "The Hunting of the Snark"; and to notes by Martin Gardner in "The Annotated Alice". While it is difficult to define “science fiction,” some features often cited