Piers Anthony

  Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob
Piers Anthony is one of the world's most prolific and popular authors. His fantasy Xanth novels have been read and loved by millions of readers around the world, and have been on the New York Times Best Seller list many times. Although Piers is mostly known for fantasy and science fiction, he has written several novels in other genres as well, including historical fiction, martial arts, and horror. Piers lives with his lovely wife in a secluded woods hidden deep in Central Florida.

This page is dedicated to my eldest brother, Mike, who introduced me to Piers Anthony (though, at the time, I didn't like him, but now that I'm older and sooo much more mature {shut up} I find his work, not only good, but some are worth second and third readings).

Adventures of Kelvin Rud
w/Robert E Margroff

Dragon's Gold
Stephen Hickman

Serpent's Silver
Darrell K Sweet

Chimaera's Copper
Manuel Morales

Orc’s Opal
Darrell K Sweet

Mouvar's Magic
Darrell K Sweet

Dragon's Gold
When Kelvin was a boy, his mother read to him from the Book of Prophecy. Now the Kingdom of Rud languishes under the heel of a usurper, and the words of the prophet echo across Rud.
Serpent's Silver
Knight Kelvin knows he is stuck with being the Roundear of the Book of Prophecy, and he even knows that the prophecy isn't completed. Now his father is imprisoned in a dungeon beyond the Flaw and his half-brother is entangled with a beautiful girl and a silver serpent.
Chimaera's Copper
When his two deadliest enemies join forces to take revenge on him, Kelvin is trapped in the distant Frame World and must escape in order to save the woman he loves, who carries their unborn child.
Orc’s Opal
The prophecy of Mouvar is running its course in the many frames of reality inhabited by Kelvin Knight Hackleberry and his family. However, not all of his enemies are dead. The evil witch Zady seeks vengeance for the deaths of Zoanna and Rufurt, and has vowed to kill Kelvin's children.
Mouvar's Magic
With the Prophecy of Mouvar about to be realized, Kelvin's children, Charles and Merlain--now twenty years old--must prevent the evil Professor Devale and his witch servant Zady from destroying Kelvin and hope for the prophecy's fulfillment.
Apprentice Adept

Split Infinity
Tim White

Blue Adept
Rowena Morrill

Juxtaposition
Tim White

Out of Phaze
Darrell K Sweet

Robot Adept
Darrell K Sweet

Unicorn Point
Darrell K Sweet

Phaze Doubt
Darrell K Sweet

Split Infinity
On the technological, decadent world of Proton, someone was trying to destroy Stile, serf and master Gamesman. His only escape lay in Phaze, a world totally ruled by magic. Soon he learned that his alternate self had already been murdered, and that he was next. On Proton, his fate depended on winning the great Games. On Phaze, he must master magic to survive. And if he used any magic at all, his friends were determined to kill him at once!
Blue Adept
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!
Juxtaposition
Stile had problems on two different worlds. On Proton he was threatened with murder, and on Phaze, an alternate world ruled by magic, he had to master magic, fight a dragon, win the friendship of a lady unicorn, locate his enemy among the paranoid Adepts and return out of Phaze to win the Great Games on Proton. After that, he was ready to face the real problems!
Out of Phaze
Mach is a self-willed robot from the technological world of Proton. Bane is an apprentice wizard from magical Phaze. When an accidental mind-switch plunges each into the other's world, they must survive the hazards of the Phaze-Proton power struggle, as well as the hazards of love!
Robot Adept
Two pairs of star-crossed lovers hold the fates of magic-based Phaze and its sister-world Proton in their hands as Adverse Adepts and Contrary Citizens plot to gain control of an all-knowing computer and its magical analog.
Unicorn Point
Neither the magic of Phaze, nor the technology of Proton, can save the parallel worlds from a ruthless takeover. The fight for freedom must be waged by Mach and Bane, robot and wizard, linked between worlds. But they are not the only ones with this strange ability. For their children have been born--each possessing powers the enemy could never imagine.
Phaze Doubt
With most of the inhabitants of the planet Phaze/Proton incarcerated or in hiding from a hated enemy government, the job of saving this endangered planet falls to Nepe and Flach, two children with special magical powers.

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World of Chthon

Chthon
Richard Powers

Phthor
Richard Powers

Chthon
It was a new word for Hell. An escape-proof prison mine, where the worst criminals in the Universe were condemned to perpetual suffering in the ruby darkness.
Aton had committed the unpardonable crime. He was condemned to Chthon for loving the minionette, the sensuous siren-spirit no man was allowed to possess ... or even desire.
And to find out who she was and why she was forbidden, Aton had to do what none before him had ever done.
Escape from Chthon!
Phthor
The planet Chthon was Hell itself...a prison world of ruby caves where rebels and outlaws were exiled into endless darkness.
Aton's crime was loving a minionette, one of the sensuous woman warriors it was death to touch. His son Arlo was both minion and human. Arlo's destiny was war, with the deadliest enemy of all: the very planet Chthon, which was alive, and angry at the life within its depths...

Battle Circle

Sos the Rope
Patrick Woodroffe

Var the Stick
Patrick Woodroffe

Neq the Sword
Patrick Woodroffe

Sos the Rope
In a future America, the Crazies live unseen in metal caves, providing goods and weapons free to the nomadic Tribes. Each tribesman has a 3-letter name and practices one of the six weapons: sword, staff, sticks, daggers, club or morning star. Battles in the Circle decide all arguments. In Sos the Rope, first of the Battle Circle trilogy, a man loses his name and right to weapons, leading him ultimately to seek out the riddle of the Crazies' mountain.
Var the Stick
The Weaponless trains the wild boy Var to a quest that leads ultimately beyond the Empire and into lands of myth.
Neq the Sword
An age of darkness was upon the Empire and Neq, the greatest of warriors, was embarked on a quest that would decide the future of the world!
Bio of a Space Tyrant

Refugee
Jim Burns

Mercenary
Jim Burns

Politician
Jim Burns
 
Executive
Jim Burns

Statesman
Jim Burns

The Iron Maiden

Refugee
Though he was later accused of every crime and sexual perversion in the galaxy, Hope Hubris began as an innocent. Because he defended his older sister against the violent lusts of a wealthy scion, Hope and his peasant family were forced to flee Callisto, one of the moons of Jupiter. Pursued by bloodthirsty scions across the airless desert, they barely escaped with their lives. The illegal space bubble was overcrowded with refugees, all hoping to reach Jupiter for asylum.
But the space travelers had not reckoned on the terrible threat of high space- the pirates, barbaric men who rape, rob, and murder, with no thought but to satisfy their bestial appetites. It will take all Hope's ingenuity to survive, but the atrocities he witnesses will never die. There is only one way he can be rid of them...Revenge!
Mercenary
He was driven by violent injustice from his home moon of Callisto- and set forth to claim the epic destiny that would blaze across worlds and time. He saw his family destroyed, his sister carried into sexual slavery, his beautiful lover killed- and he swore revenge against the murderous pirates who held the Jupiter planetoids in a stranglehold of terror.
Fired by raw courage, steeled by young might, he rose in the Navy of Jupiter to command a personal squadron loyal to death. And it was death they faced- against piratical warlords of the Jupiter Ecliptic who laughed at the young commander's challenge... until they met the merciless fury of the warrior who would annihilate all obstacles in his path to immortal renown as the Tyrant of Jupiter!
Politician
He awoke in a tiny lightless cell, groping for memory ... memory that had been erased. Hope Hubris, Jupiter governor, progressive populist, warrior hero, and presidential candidate ... a "mem-washed" tool of the enemy. And if his captors' plan worked, Hope would destroy his own political career, leaving the fate of his planet in the hands of its corrupt presidential incumbent -- Tocsin.
But Hope Hubris had a destiny to fulfill. He had the cunning to discover code words that could reactivate his mind ... the strength to resist addiction to their drugs ... the power to win the support of his countrymen, and finally the courage to make an agonizing sacrifice that would ensure his planet's future and his own destiny.
Executive
He was shaping his times as no one before him dared, mercilessly scourging an entire planet of crime and corruption wherever he found them -- and destroying anyone who stood in his way. Absolute dictator to the United States of Jupiter, Hope Hubris was destined to become the most hated and feared man of an era, a tyrant charged with countless heinous acts and sexual cruelties. Yet justice remained his fiercest passion.
Now to insure his goals, Hope would assume an alternate identity and become a rebel -- the brilliant leader in a revolution dedicated to his own overthrow. To fulfill his dreams he would sacrifice love ... and plunge headlong into madness ...
Statesman
Child of flame and terror, born and bred to violence, Hope Hubris had ruled the solar system's most powerful empire with a fierce, uncompromising passion. His was a white-hot flame of justice that scarred friend and foe alike. Yet now he left Jupiter as an exile, his autocratic rule overthrown by the one person he could not oppose.
Deposed, disgraced, but forever unbroken, the tyrant's greatest hour was still to come. For only he could shoulder the burden of humanity's boldest dream: to leave behind the confines of the solar system - and journey outward to the stars...
The Iron Maiden
Recounts and expands on the events of the previous "Space Tyrant" books from the perspective of Hope's sister, Spirit.

ChroMagic

Key to Havoc

Key to Chroma

Key to Destiny

Key to Liberty

Key to Survival

Key to Havoc
1,000 years ago Earth colonized the planet Charm. But the population of Charm is now far removed from their ancient ancestors. Technology has been lost over the years but the people have something better--Magic!
Charm is a world covered by volcanoes, each erupting a different color of magic. Everything within a particular Chroma becomes that color. Plants, animals, insects, and even humans all become one color and can perform that color of magic. Traveling is dangerous because a person leaving their native Chroma home can no longer perform their color magic.
Havoc is a barbarian living in a non-Chroma village, where no one has magic. As a boy, he rescued a dragon that rewarded him with special magic; to sense pending danger. His gift becomes more valuable than he can imagine as he is suddenly drafted and forced to become the new king of the planet. He must perform his duties or be executed for treason. To make matters worse, the assassin who killed the former king is now after Havoc!
Key to Chroma
Settled by a human expedition over 1,000 years ago, the planet Charm is both magical and dangerous. Volcanoes, scattered throughout the vast landscape, erupt with a fantastic array of colors creating Chroma zones and permeating everything and everyone with magic. The barbarian Havoc became king of this strange land and immediately found himself a target to unknown powerful assassins. Having finally secured a firm grip on governing the planet with the help of the God-like Glamors, Havoc and his companions must now set off in search of seven mysterious ikons to attempt to learn the secret of the Changelings a secret that could answer all of Havoc's questions, or lead him to his doom.
Key to Destiny
At last Havoc and Gale are married, having discovered the source of the changelings, but the King and Queen have yet to enjoy a peaceful reign. The knowledge they've gained, as well as their new Glamor status, opens doors to new questions—and new missions for Havoc's loyal friends.
The discovery of the enigmatic loom brings more questions than answers, and when the loom creates a tapestry that points the way to Counter-Charm, the whole assemblage makes ready to visit and explore the mysterious sister planet. With the help of the peculiar cloud-like ifrits, the Glamors must find the location indicated by the tapestry and permeate powerful illusion fields to find whatever lies at the center.
In the process they just might discover that the key to their destiny may be the smallest among them.
Key to Liberty
Shortly after the planet Charm was colonized 1,000 years ago, Earth finally suffered World War III. Almost everyone was destroyed and those remaining fell into a barbarian society when technology was lost. To prevent future wars, Earth's women took control and governed with a more sensible approach.
Over the next thousand years, Earth rebuilt itself to an advanced technological power again and now needed more resources for its continued existence and growth. To fulfill their needs, Earth's lost colonies must be found and brought back under control.
Now Earth has sent a ship with a planet-busting bomb to reclaim the colony Charm, and it appears that the only way Havoc and his planet can survive the invasion is if his children are sacrificed as hostages.
Key to Survival
It features King Havoc, Queen Gale, and their four Glamor children as they tackle the invasion of the machines. The machines have destroyed one third of the galaxy and are working on the rest. They have overwhelming power and ruthless competence. But one thing makes them pause: they want to recruit Havoc's daughter Voila to their cause, as she is the strongest of all glamors with a talent they need. If she joins them, they will spare the rest of the human culture--and destroy the rest of the galaxy much faster. This is an offer Voila has to think about: whether to betray all the other living cultures, to save her own.

Cluster

Cluster/Vicintiy Cluster
Ron Walotsky

Chaining the Lady
Ron Walotsky

Kirlian Quest
Ron Walotsky

Thousandstar
Ron Walotsky

Viscous Circle
Ron Walotsky

Cluster/Vicintiy Cluster
At the farthest reaches of Milky Way Galaxy, on the planet of Outworld, where primitive men and nubile women still battle giant dinosaurs, the barbaric genius of Flint is summoned by the Earthborn to fulfil a mission of galactic magnitude: to save the galaxy's energy source from the marauders of Andromeda Galaxy by transferring his overpowering Kirlian essence to alien spheres, and uniting the galaxy against the invaders.
Chaining the Lady
Ten centuries after the War of Energy, Melody of Mintaka- daughter of Flint the Caveman- assumes forms of alien and animal, male and female, to bring victory to the people of Cluster against the Andromen space fleet. But first she must endure untold humiliation... The mistress of space is enslaved!
Kirlian Quest
From the distant planet of Amoeba comes word of an awesome invasion. And Herald the Healer- descendant of Flint of Outworld- must abandon his beloved Psyche to those who would burn her for witchcraft as he seeks to master the riddle of the cosmos, journeying to the ancient ruins on Mars and the Galaxy of Pinwheels... Herald the Serpent must crush the foe!
Thousandstar
At the edge of the Milky Way, the treacherous space race for the legacy of the Ancients begins- a race against time, enemy aliens, and black holes. For outlawed hero Heem of Highfalls and beautiful Jessica of Capella, the extraordinary contest is very simple: They can win... or they can die.
Viscous Circle
In the far, far future the bloodthirsty Solarians, in their rage to find the mysterious Ancient Site, are determined to wipe out the Bands, a strange and beautiful species whose society is an anarchy of peace. Only Rondl, the whirling green Band, can save his race, for he has a singular and awesome knowledge. But suddenly Rondl makes a shocking discovery about his identity- a discovery that may cost him his honor, his beautiful wife Cirl, even his very life... the galactic annihilation is beginning!
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Geodyssey

Isle of Woman
Eric Peterson & Joe Curcio

Shame of Man
Eric Peterson & Brad Schmel

Hope of Earth
Tristan Elwell

Muse of Art
Tristan Elwell

Isle of Woman
A magnificent saga of passion, heroism, and survival, Isle of Woman is a tale like no other ever written. It is nothing less than the story of humanity itself, from its savage origins to its troubled future, told through the lives of one family reborn throughout history.
At once grand in scope and intimate in human detail, Isle of Woman tells the story of a man and a woman born at the dawn of human history, separated by fate, yet united by an unquenchable passion that even time could not conquer: Blaze, the fire worker who raised his kind out of savagery, and Ember, the beautiful green-eyed woman who forever haunted his dreams.
Shame of Man
A magnificent epic of danger, desire, triumph and tragedy, Shame of Man is nothing less than the story of humanity itself. It is the story of two lovers reborn throughout history - Hugh, a dreamer and musician, and his beloved Ann, a beautiful dancer - as they struggle to preserve their family and their way of life during some of the most turbulent periods of our savage past - and our troubled future. Through their eyes we experience humanity's greatest achievements, and witness it's greatest shame, the relentless exploitation of nature that now threatens our very survival.
Hope of Earth
Anthony brings us a stirring epic that ranges from our ancient beginnings in Africa's Great Rift Valley to the windswept Andes a century from now, and includes some of history's most fascinating figures--the mysterious "Ice Man" of the Swiss Alps, the decadent King Herod, the British Warrior Queen Boudica, the Mongol Chieftain Tamurlane, and King Louis XIV of France.
Exciting, imaginative, and inspiring, Hope of Earth is the story of a group of heroic men and women, bound by ties of passion, honor, and blood, who struggle to transcend our violent past and forge a new and shining future.
Muse of Art
It is the arts that truly define humanity and set us apart from all other species on earth. In a rousing, passionate story that ranges from the mists of prehistory to a terrifyingly plausible near future, Muse of Art explores the special talents that have inspired and motivated us since the earliest days of our existence: curiosity and creativity, seduction and survival, destruction and healing.
We view some of the most explosive eras in human history through the eyes of three remarkable women: Avalanche, the alluring beauty skilled in the arts of love and desire; Melee, the headstrong young noblewoman who learns to mold men to her will; and Talena, the wise and lovely weaver of tales who embodies Eve, the primordial mother of the human race.
Through them we take part in the occult mysteries of Egypt, the savage wars of the Olmecs, the violent clashes between the Romans and Celts, the court intrigues of ancient Cambodia, the savagery of Attila the Hun, the Napoleonic Wars, and the siege of Stalingrad in the darkest days of World War II. And we look ahead to a harrowing future overshadowed by a devastating plague.


Incarnations of Immortality

On a Pale Horse
Michael Whelan

Bearing an Hourglass
Michael Whelan

With a Tangled Skein
Michael Whelan

Wielding a Red Sword
Michael Whelan

Being a Green Mother
Michael Whelan

For Love of Evil
Rowena Morrill

And Eternity
Rowena Morrill

Under a Velvet Cloak

On a Pale Horse
Shooting Death was a mistake, as Zane soon discovered. For the man who killed the Incarnation of Death was immediately forced to assume the vacant position! Thereafter, he must speed over the world, riding his pale horse, and ending the lives of others.
Zane was forced to accept his unwelcome task, despite the rules that seemed woefully unfair. But then he found himself being drawn into an evil plot of Satan. Already the Prince of Evil was forging a trap in which Zane must act to destroy Luna, the woman he loved.
He could see only one possible way to defeat the Father of Lies. It was unthinkable -- but he had no other solution!
Bearing an Hourglass
When life seemed pointless to Norton, he accepted the position as the Incarnation of Time, even though it meant living backward from present to past.
The other seemingly all-powerful Incarnations of Immortality -- Death, Fate, War, and Nature -- made him welcome. Even Satan greeted him with gifts. But he soon discovered the gifts were cunning traps. While he had been distracted, he had become enmeshed in a complex scheme of the Evil One to destroy all that was good.
In the end, armed only with the Hourglass, Norton was forced to confront the immense power of Satan directly. And though Satan banished him to Hell, he was resolved to fight on.
With a Tangled Skein
When the man Niobe loved was shot, she learned that she had been the target, in a devious plot of the Devil’s.
Hoping for revenge, Niobe accepted a position as one of the three Aspects of Fate, only to find that Satan’s plots were tangled into the very Tapestry of Fate. Now the Evil One was laying a trap to ruin Niobe’s granddaughter Luna, who threatened his plans -- and he had tricked her son into Hell.
Niobe’s only chance to save her son and Luna was to accept a challenge by the Prince of Deceit -- a challenge to be decided in Hell and in a maze of Satan’s devising!
Wielding a Red Sword
Mym was a dutiful son, but his father the Rajah interfered in his love life once too often. Rather than wed without love, he took up the Red Sword, symbol of the Incarnation of War.
At first he thought his efforts could ameliorate some of the suffering caused by Earth’s constant petty wars. But he found that behind all his involvement were the clever traps of Satan.
When seeming mischance placed him in Hell, Mym organized a great rebellion among the Damned. And Satan seemed to capitulate. But free again, Mym learned that Satan had been busy stirring up lots of riots and war. Now it seemed things had gone too far and Satan must surely win. There was only one desperate chance…
Being a Green Mother
Orb had a rare gift -- the magic which manifested whenever she sang or played her harp. No one could resist her music. But greater magic than Orb’s lay in the Llano, the mystic music that controlled all things. The quest for the Llano occupied Orb’s life.
Then she met Natasha. He was handsome, charming -- and an even finer musician than she. Natasha began teaching Orb the music of the Llano, and she found herself falling in love with him.
Then Orb’s mother Niobe came as an Aspect of Fate, bearing the news that Orb was chosen for the role of the Incarnation of Nature -- the Green Mother. And Niobe warned Orb of the prophecy made years before -- that Orb was to marry Evil. Could she be sure that Natasha was not really Satan, the Master of Illusion, laying a trap for her?
For Love of Evil
Parry was a gifted musician and an apprentice in the arts of White Magic. But his life of sweet promise went disastrously awry following the sudden, violent death of his beloved Jolie.
Led down the twisted path of wickedness and depravity by Lilah the harlot demoness, Parry thrived -- first as a sorcerer, then as a monk, and finally as a feared inquisitor.
But it wasn’t until his mortal flame was extinguished that Parry found his true calling -- as the Incarnation of Evil. And, at the gates of Hell, he prepared to wage war on the master himself -- Lucifer, the dark Lord -- with dominion over the infernal realms the ultimate prize!
And Eternity
After an overwhelming succession of tragedies, life has finally, mercifully ended for Orlene, once-mortal daughter of Gaea.
Joined in Afterlife by Jolie -- her protector and the sometime consort of Satan himself -- together they seek out a third: Vita, a very contemporary mortal with troubles, attractions, and an unsettling moral code uniquely her own.
An extraordinary triumvirate, they embark on a great quest to reawaken the Incarnation of Good in a world where evil reigns -- facing challenges that will test the very fiber of their beings with trials as numerous, as mysterious, and as devastating as the Incarnations themselves.
Under a Velvet Cloak
It is the year 500 AD. Kerena, a beautiful young girl living near King Arthur's Camelot, is apprenticed to Morely the Seer. Morely teaches her fantastic magic, but when he mysteriously disappears, Kerena finds herself out on the street and must resort to prostitution to survive. Kerena prospers as a skilled courtesan until she is taken into service by Morgan le Fey, the sorceress sister of King Arthur. Kerena's knowledge of magic grows as she is required to carry out nefarious deeds for the evil Lady Fey. One of her missions is to seduce Sir Gawain, Knight of the Round Table, to prevent him from locating the Holy Grail. But Gawain and Kerena fall in love and she conceives his child, a child she discovers is cursed to die an early death. Using her Seer abilities, Kerena tries to locate the fabled Incarnations of Immortality, seeking their aid in removing the taint from her baby. Rebuffed by all seven major Incarnations, Kerena vows revenge. But revenge against such mighty immortals would require an even greater power.

Mode

Virtual Mode
Daniel Horne

Fractal Mode
Daniel Horne

Chaos Mode
Romas Kukalis

DoOon Mode
Daniel Horne

Virtual Mode
Colene, who lives a normal life on the outside, is filled with inner torments that only she knows about. When she finds a beat-up man lying in a ditch, she takes him home and feeds and shelters him in secret...and her life begins to change. The man, named Darius, speaks a strange language and claims to have come from another world in search of a wife he could love. Colene thinks he is crazy. Darius is shaken by the revelation of her own dark inner nature. He leaves to return to his own world, and disappears before Colene's eyes. Colene would do anything to find him again, and she sets off on the Modes, a pathway across the realities, in order to find Darius again.
Fractal Mode
Five special people are the anchor points to a path across parellel universes. There is Darius, of the sympathetic magic...Nona, the ninth child of a ninth child...Seqiro, the telepathic horse...Provos, who remembers only the future... and Colene, the girl from Earth who learned that all dreams are possible.
Held captive in Nona's home universe, Colene and her friends must help fulfill a dangerous prophecy-that one day women will take the power of magic away from the cruel men who control it. But first, Nona must cross the barrier to another universe...to that strange and unpredictable place called Earth.
Chaos Mode
Colene, Darius, and the magnificent telepathic horse Sequiro, travelling companions from Virtual Mode and Fractal Mode, face their most dangerous adventure ever as they pass freely from one universe to the next. They are joined by a most unlikely companion: Burgess, a tentacled creature from a world where evolution went entirely differently from the path it took for us. And their travels take them to a place that in some ways is the strangest of all - a place called Earth.
DoOon Mode
Fearing Colene's dawning power, the depraved Emperor Ddwng dispatches a terrible Mind Monster to assault her soul and bend her to his will. To protect herself, and those she loves, Colene must journey back through many worlds to her own home on Earth, face her deepest and darkest fears, and draw the strength for a final confrontation to save the multiverse from tyranny and domination.

Of Man and Manta

Omnivore
Peter Andrew Jones

Orn
Peter Andrew Jones

Ox
Peter Andrew Jones

Omnivore
Subble was more than a man. Indeed, by training and very special endowment he was virtually a superman. Subble never felt that he was less than a man--but then he could not really afford feelings unless they were of direct assistance in his work. But he was not given to introspection, for in his life there was no need of it. It would in fact have been difficult, for his memory, or perhaps lack of it, was also one of his rather peculiar endowments. All this had one object. To make Subble a very particular kind of investigator, one who could be judgmental without bias, who could kill without guilt, whose only real joy would be, eventually, to die in a job well done. He couldn't know when than eventuality would arrive. He could only keep trying.
Orn
The trio of scientists had been ordered to survey the planet's flora, fauna and mineral resources, and from the very beginning of their mission everything they observed led to one startling conclusion- the mysterious world was virtually identical to with the Earth of the Paleocene period, 70 million years ago at the very dawn of the age of mammals.
Their names were Cal, Veg and Aquilon, the most resourceful- and rebellious- of Earth's explorers, and with them came four alien companions, the mantas. The mantas possessed the keenest senses of any creatures in the universe, a gift which immediately saved the mission from complete disaster.
But just as incredible as the dinosaurs was another creature they were soon to meet- Orn, a man-sized bird who belonged to the most advanced species ever to develop on this world. Unsurpassed racial memory enabled Orn's mind to reach millions of years into the past, and it was his presence that led the three humans and the mantas to open revolt.
Determined to prevent man's destructive exploitation of this world, they must pit themselves not only against the creatures they wish to save from extinction, but also against the all-consuming greed of Earth's powerful authorities.
Ox
Cal, Veg, and Aquilon--two men and one woman--roamed the alternate dimensions of time and space. With them were the mantas, strange flying aliens--half animal, half fungus--who could boast the keenist senses of any creatures in the universe. And with them too was the mysterious, impassive superwoman, Tamme. Now they were imprisoned on a hostile world dominated by savage robot machines. It was crucial to their very survival that each find a way back to their familar dimension of Earth. Suddenly they encountered the pattern named OX--an amorphous, telepathic being of brilliant luminosity--who held the key to every alternate dimension in the universe, including their only chance of escape.

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Tarot

God of Tarot
Rowena Morrill

Vision of Tarot
Rowena Morrill

Faith of Tarot
Rowena Morrill

God of Tarot
Earth has reached the stars and reverted to barbarism in the same era, and when a star-colony is threatened by a storm of monsters, one man is chosen to pierce the curtain of the Animation and endure the lusts and horrors of the planet TAROT. His name is Paul and he is a monk, which is better than a warrior on a world where religions are wielded like swords.
Vision of Tarot
On the planet TAROT nothing is real. Or everything. For the shimmering Animation curtain is moving across the worldscape like a storm of monsters, changing fantasy into hideous reality, trapping the wanderer-monk Paul in a nightmare of dragons, demons and spectacular lusts.
Faith of Tarot
On far Tarot dreams come true - and fanged nightmares stalk the land. Sent to pierce the dread curtain of the Animation that turns fantasy into hideous reality, the wanderer-monk Paul finds himself on a trip to the ultimate, and most terrifying, fantasy of them all. Hell.

Xanth
Novels
Collections

Anthonology
Tim White

Alien Plot
Erin McKie

Relationships I

Relationships II

Relationships III

Anthonology
Possible to Rue; The Toaster
Quinquepedalian
Encounter
Phog
The Ghost Galaxies
Within the Cloud
The Life of the Stripe
In the Jaws of Danger
Beak by Beak
Getting Through University
In the Barn
Up Schist Crick
The Whole Truth
The Bridge
On the Uses of Torture
Small Mouth, Bad Taste
Wood You
Hard Sell
Hurdle
Gone to the Dogs
Alien Plot
20 Years
Alien Plot
Baby
Cloister
December Dates
E van S
Faces
Hearts
Imp to Nymph
Kylo
Love 40
Nonent
Plague of Allos
Revise and Invent
Ship of Mustard
Soft Like a Woman
Think of the Reader
To the Death
Deadline
Transmogrification
Relationships I
From one of the best known names in fiction comes this unique collection of stories about relationships--some intense, some sexual, some mild, some shockers. This collection is intended for mature, thoughtful readers who care more about character and idea than adventure. A must for Anthony fans.
Relationships II
From the New York Times bestselling author comes a never-before published collection of seven stories about relationships, loving and passionate, thought-provoking and inspiring. Some verge into the familiar Anthony territory of fantasy and science fiction, where others focus on the eroticism of contemporary life, proving that love has many facets. The second of three volumes!
Relationships II
A woman experimenting with an interactive virtual reality program discovers a healing companionship. A fashion model and a professor are paired together with a powerful aphrodesiac. A surveyor of otherworlds meets an alluring, yet endangered alien. A shy young man finds his confidence as a demonstrator in a sexual practice workshop. Get ready for another collection of stories on relationships from master storyteller.

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