Piers Anthony
Personal Information
Description
Piers Anthony was born in Oxford, England. When he was four years old, his family immigrated to the United States. He graduated from Goddard College in Vermont in 1956, the year he met and married his wife, Carol Marble. After working at odd jobs, he joined the U.S. Army in 1957 for steady income and medical insurance. In 1958, he became a U.S. citizen. He became an editor and cartoonist for the Battalion newspaper. He left the army in 1959 and briefly taught public school before becoming a full-time writer. Anthony currently lives with his wife on a tree farm which he owns in Florida.
Books
Total Recall
Again, Dangerous Visions
A collection of original science fiction stories by such noted authors as Ray Bradbury, Ben Bova, and Kurt Vonnegut.
Blue Adept
In Book Two of the epic adventure that began in SPLIT INFINITY, Stile discovers life on Proton and Phaze is getting more difficult. On Proton he's a serf trying to prove his right to exist by competing in the Great Games. And on Phaze, where only magic worked, he was the Blue Adept trying to master the powers of sorcery. On both worlds, someone was trying to assassinate him. And as if that weren't enough, he has to win the love of Lady Blue, fight a dragon, discover the ultimate weapon, and of course, seek out the all-powerful Citizen who was trying to kill him!THE APPRENTICE ADEPT SERIESBook One: SPLIT INFINITYBook Two: BLUE ADEPTBook Three: JUXTAPOSITIONFrom the Paperback edition.
The Magic of Xanth
Trilogy: A Spell for Chameleon, The Source of Magic, Castle Roogna
Air Apparent (Xanth)
The mysterious disappearance of the Good Magician Humfrey's son Hugo sends a diverse group of characters off on a dangerous and madcap pair of parallel quests.
Chaining the lady
From the back cover: Ten centuries after the War of Energy, Melody of Mintaka -- daughter of Flint the Caveman -- assumes the forms of alien and animal, male and female, to bring victory to the people of Cluster against the Andromedan spacefleet. But first she must endure untold humiliation... THE MISTRESS OF SPACE IS ENSLAVED!
Battle Circle
Including SOS the rope – VAR The Stick – NEQ The Sword. In this highly imaginative trilogy, master science fiction writer Piers Anthony creates a world of savage power of primitive and brutal laws where all disputes are settled in the battle circle, and where men must seize and realise their vision of an empire by the might of their primitive weapons. “Anthony’s story of men fighting for mastery of wandering tribes, with sword, club and rope in the ceremonial Great Circle, has its own internal conviction – its own grandeur, even.... a rigorous masculine power, rare in any kind of novel nowadays.
Elfquest, The Blood of Ten Chiefs 1
The Wolfriders lived for ten thousand years on the World of Two Moons, before Cutter, Blood of Ten Chiefs, was born to lead them to freedom... A lot can happen in ten thousand years... Some of the finest writers of fantasy have entered the world of Elfquest, and the result is the grandest shared-universe of all! Cover art by Wendy Pini ISBN 0812530438 (ISBN13: 9780812530438)
On a pale horse
When Zane shot Death, he learned, too late, that he would have to assume his place, speeding over the world riding his pale horse, and ending the lives of others. Sooner than he would have thought possible, Zane found himself being drawn to Satan's plot. Already the Prince of Evil was forging a trap in which Zane must act to destroy Luna, the woman he loved...unless he could discover the only way out.... The first novel of the INCARNATIONS OF IMMORTALITY series.
Firefly
Del Morgan was once a talented frontier doctor, until tragedy struck. Julie's wicked father's unrelenting brutality poisoned her family and robbed her of pride and self-respect. In each other's arms, Julie and Del discover the healing balm of love, mending their lives in tender harmony.
Cluster (Cluster series, Bk. 1)
From the back cover: From the regions of Outworld to the land of the Canopians and beyond -- through the distant reaches of time and space and the vast spectrum of Kirlian apparitions -- Flint the Caveman is master and slave, conqueror and hero, slayer primeval and seducer triumphant... FLINT OF OUTWORLD HAS COME!
Well-tempered clavicle
When a walking skeleton named Picka Bones happens upon a trio of melodic pets and a lovely, lovelorn princess, his dull and passionless existence is suddenly filled with danger, excitement, and the temptations of the flesh. For a plague of appalling puns has been unleashed on Xanth, and only Picka's musical gifts have the power to save the enchanted realtor the dire monster who imperials it.