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 "Sliders"' launch, Evelyn C. Leeper noted the similarities to "Doorways". In response to rumors that "Sliders" creator Tracy Tormé applied for a writing position on the show, Martin clarified in a 1995 post on GEnie that it was Tormé's agent that inquired about the position, and Tormé has denied any connection between the two. The first draft of the pilot script appeared in George R. R. Martin's 1200 page "GRRM: A RRetrospective" in 2003, which was republished in 2006 as "". On August 30, 2010, IDW Publishing announced its forthcoming adaptation of "Doorways" was to be in four parts. When