Piers Anthony

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  • Book III of Incarnations of Immortality. 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. Cover art by Steve Crisp.
  • Book IV of Incarnations of Immortality. This was a world where both science and magic worked and where magic carpets competed in the market with shiny new cars. The Incarnations of Death, Fate, Time, War, and Nature were real beings caught up in a continuing effort to defeat the wiles of Satan. Mym was prince of a province in still-divided India - a dutiful son, but when the Rajah interfered in his love life for the third time, it was just too much. Rather than give in to the Rajah's wedding plans, he agreed to assume the office of War and wield the Red Sword. For a time he was quite happy, believing that his efforts in the constant petty Earth wars could ameliorate some of the injustice and suffering.  But he soon became aware that behind all his involvement were the traps of Satan, designed to lead him astray. Working in secret, he organised a great rebellion among the Damned, and Satan seemed to capitulate. But he soon learned that the episode was just another snare of Satan...Cover art by Michael Whelan.
  • Book IV of Incarnations of Immortality. Mym was a dutiful son, but his father the Rajah interfered in his love life just once too often. Rather than wed without love, he took up the Red Sword symbol of office of the Incarnation of War. At first he thought his efforts would ameliorate some of the suffering caused by Earth's petty and constant wars. But he found that behind all his involvement were the clever traps of Satan.  When seeming mischance placed him in hell, Mym organised a great rebellion among the Damned. Satan seemed to capitulate - but once free, Mym learned that Satan had been busy stirring up riots and war.  It seemed that things had gone to far and Satan would win.  But there is still one desperate chance...  Books in this series are 'stand alone' reads.
  • Book I of Mode. Colene is attractive, intelligent and popular, but she's also a young woman who is screwed up, depressed and suicidal. On the outside she sparkles, on the inside her soul is rotting.  The idea of death represents freedom but she can't bring herself to take the final plunge.  Then on day she finds an unconscious man by the roadside, with no identification.  He's injured, so she helps him, as he seems very strange and speaks a strange language.  She learns to communicate with him and finds out that his name is Darius and he is a ruler of part of his world in a universe where magic works.  But the source of his magic is dwindling and he's desperate to find a partner to help him replenish his power...and he's dared the infinite network of worlds to find his partner. Cover art by Steve Crisp.
  • Book I of the Cluster series.  At the farthest reaches of the Milky Way, 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: to save the galaxy's energy source from the marauders of the Andromeda Galaxy by transferring his overpowering Kirlian essence to alien spheres and uniting the galaxy against the invaders. Cover art by Fred Gambino.
  • Xanth Book X. When Esk, a young ogre-nymph-human, began his pilgrimage to the Good Magician Humfrey to rid himself of a seductive demoness, little did he know it would become a mission of mercy. A running river paradise and its harmless inhabitants were perishing in the wrathful wake of a greedy demon horde. Now it is up to Esk and his companions - a beautiful winged centaur named Chex and a brave burrower called Volney - to search Xanth's treacherous reaches, gathering together a mind-boggling company of creatures to defend the precious Vale of the Vole. 
  • Book VI of Apprentice Adept. All seems lost for the powers of good in the worlds of Phaze and Proton. Bane and Mach have been forced to co-operate with the evil Adverse Adepts who now have access to the Book of Magic and the Oracle and are gaining power by the minute. But Stile and the Blue Adept still hold the trump card - the secret powers of their grandchildren Flach and Nepe, who like their fathers Bane and Mach are able to communicate at will across the frames. One by one, the good Adepts fall into the power of the enemy until a contest is arranged between the forces of good and evil simultaneously on both frames - the prizes will be the Book of Magic and the Oracle, the keys to the balance of power in the two frames, and if the Adverse Adepts win, they will use them for their own selfish ends and impose  a cruel dictatorship on both animals and humans. Cover art by Chris Achilleos.
  • Earth's invincible space fleet has occupied the monsters' worlds! Earth's mighty space force has seized the aliens' home planet! Earth's triumphant space warriors have captured the enemy system! But then...why is Earth suffering so beneath the tread of those heartless conquerors from the stars? Earth and Kazo have created a unique peace. Kazo administers Earth, and Earth controls Kazo. Nothing is really complicated until both humans and Kazos discover the existence of a third intelligent race in the galaxy and try to bring them into the newly developing peace. Cover art by Jim Burns.
  • Book XV of Xanth.  We see England, We See Xanth, We see Mela's Underpanth!  In fact, Gwennie Goblin, Che Centaur and Jenny Elf are about the only creatures on Xanth who have been spared the sight of Mela Merwoman's undergarments - preoccupied as they are with helping Gwennie beat out her awful half-brother Gobble for cheifship of the Goblin horde. But first they must master space and thyme - and find the fabulous egg that sits between the Roc and a hard place. While Mela - who would gladly relinquish her oft-viewed undies for a new husband - joins the Adult Conspiracy - and quickly discovers the power of a perfect pair of panties...Cover art by Darrell K. Sweet.