Piers Anthony

//Piers Anthony
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  • Book I of Tarot. On the planet Tarot, the new religions flourish. But all who dwell in that occult world, still worship the timeless Tree of Life as the one supreme god. Now this primitive culture is being haunted by apparitions from the mystery-ridden deck of Tarot - by Animations who destroy minds and take human life. Can this horror be their Deity's ultimate challenge to his people? A young Earthling adventurer is sent to find the answer. Alone he dares to conjure a Tarot Animation, penetrate its awesome domain -- and risk being trapped through all eternity - within the mystic borders of the ancient cards.
  • Book XVII of The Chronicles Of Xanth. Gloha is the prettiest goblin-harpy in Xanth. She is also the only one, which creates problems when she decides it's time to find a boyfriend. Winged goblins - no  matter how charming - don't have an obvious appeal to any of Xanth's eligible bachelors. But thanks to the Good Magician, Gloha has professional help at hand. He rejuvenates 96 year old King Emeritus Trent, the one-time Evil Magician, so he looks like his devastatingly handsome young self. Then he sends Trent and Gloha off to find the perfect husband. All goes well - until Gloha falls in love with Trent... Cover art by Mick Posen.
  • Book III of the Cluster series.  Twice the Milky Way Galaxy has been on the verge of extinction and twice a heroic defender has come forward to throw back invaders from the Andromeda Galaxy.  Now the galaxies are untied in a peaceful alliance.  But Hweeh of Weew, Milky Way's leading research astronomer has noticed at Amoeba - just beyond the galaxies' common frontier - is expanding in their direction.  Herald the Healer is called in and armed only with his hypertensive Kirlian aura he wages almost single-handed battle against the greatest threat ever to face the galaxies.  But first he must unravel the secrets of the Ancients, astounding secrets whose import could never have been imagined...Cover art by Fred Gambino
  • Macroscope: the greatest scientific breakthrough in the history of man, a vast space-borne device that brought the entire universe within man's range of vision, revealing levels of technology vastly beyond anything dreamed of on Earth. But the discovery brought danger - in a place so unthinkably distant in space and time that it might be at the other end of the continuum. A place where ancient symbols come to life to battle for the souls of men. Cover art by Eddie Jones.

  • Book III of Magic of Xanth. Heaven Cent to Mundania - a most odd and unexpected destination for Princess Ivy, elder sister of Prince Dolph and future King of Xanth - though of course the totally unexpected is pretty much the usual in Xanth. Meeting Grey Murphy was one lucky consequence for her, and something of a relief for him. His computer has been setting him up with some very unsuitable girls.  The lovely Salmonella, for instance - delicious food but problems later! But there are questions: Is Grey a real Mundane? Or could he be connected to the Evil Magician Murphy? And his magic talent?  He's got to have one to become Ivy's Queen. In the magic, muddling world of Xanth, the path of true love, or untrue love - or anything else - is never going to be smooth.
  • Book II of Bio Of A Space Tyrant. 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 off 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 the 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.Cover art by Alan Craddock.
  • A discreet advertisement brings a group of apparently disparate individuals together to a bizarre rendezvous - on the ocean floor. There's Don, an archaeologist and chronically shy; Gaspar, a marine biologist who suffers from terminal directness; middle-aged Pacifica and Melanie, who normal exterior masks a strange genetic imbalance...and they seem on the face of it to have little in common, except their feeling that they are part of a greater plan - a feeling that grows as they embark on their strange odyssey across the bed of the ocean. They mystery of being out of phase with the world above water is heightened by that surrounding the Elaph - a mystery which is ultimately revealed to be more significant and bewildering than they ever could have imagined. Cover art by Steve Crisp.
  • Kelvin of Rud V.  As soon as the vile witch Zady has grown herself a new body, Professor Devale sends her back into the frame to flush out Mouvar and the Opal - and kill everything Kelvin Knight Hackleberry holds dear. But growing a body has taken Zady twenty years and by now Hackleberry is almost a grandfather. His human son Charles is in love with Glow, nursemaid to the slow-growing twins Kildee and Kildom. His dragon son Horace is in love with another dragon, Ember, equally telepathic. And although his daughter Merlain doesn't know it yet, her true love, whose name is Glint, is just about to come into her life - unless Zady gets to him first. The stakes are high. The last battle is on.

  • Book I V of Geodyssey.  A handful of courageous, passionate men and women are reborn again and again in some of the most turbulent ages of history. 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, the heart of our deepest fears and highest aspirations are probed, illuminating the spark that makes us what we are: curious, creative, seductive, survivalist, destructive and healing.  Cover art by Tristan Elwell.