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 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