Piers Anthony

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  • Bibliography:
    192 Books (13 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1967
  • Latest Book:
    December 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Apprentice Adept

1 - Split Infinity (Apr-1980)
2 - Blue Adept (Apr-1981)
3 - Juxtaposition (Mar-1982)
4 - Out of Phaze (Apr-1988)
5 - Robot Adept (1988)
6 - Unicorn Point (1989)
7 - Phaze Doubt (1990)

The Aton

1 - Chthon (1967)
2 - Phthor (1975)

The Battle Circle Trilogy

1 - Sos the Rope (1968)
2 - Var the Stick (1972)
3 - Neq the Sword (1975)

Bio of a Space Tyrant

1 - Refugee (Oct-1983)
2 - Mercenary (Jun-1984)
3 - Politician (May-1985)
4 - Executive (Dec-1985)
5 - Statesman (Dec-1986)
6 - Iron Maiden (1995)

ChroMagic

1 - Key to Havoc (Jun-2003)
2 - Key to Chroma (Dec-2003)
3 - Key to Destiny (Jul-2004)
4 - Key to Liberty (May-2007)
5 - Key To Survival (Jul-2008)

The Cluster

1 - Cluster (1977)
2 - Chaining the Lady (1978)
3 - Kirlian Quest (Jul-1978)
4 - Thousandstar (1980)
5 - Viscous Circle (May-1982)

Geodyssey

1 - Isle of Woman (1993)
2 - Hope of Earth (1994)
3 - Shame of Man (Oct-1994)
4 - Muse of Art (1999)
5 - Climate of Change (May-2010)

Hair

1 - Hair Power (Jul-2016)
2 - Hair Suite (Dec-2016)
3 - Hair Peace (Feb-2019)

Incarnations of Immortality

1 - On a Pale Horse (1983)
2 - Bearing an Hourglass (1984)
3 - With a Tangled Skein (1985)
4 - Wielding a Red Sword (Oct-1986)
5 - Being a Green Mother (Oct-1987)
6 - For Love of Evil (1988)
7 - And Eternity (Jan-1990)
8 - Under a Velvet Cloak (Jan-2008)

The Miracle Planet

1 - God of Tarot (Apr-1979)
2 - Vision of Tarot (Jan-1980)
3 - Faith of Tarot (Feb-1980)

Mode

1 - Virtual Mode (1990)
2 - Fractal Mode (Jan-1992)
3 - Chaos Mode (Jan-1994)
4 - DoOon Mode (Apr-2001)

Of Man and Mantra

1 - Omnivore (1968)
2 - Orn (1971)
3 - Ox (Aug-1976)

A Xanth Novel

1 - A Spell for Chameleon (Sep-1977)
2 - Source of Magic (1979)
3 - Castle Roogna (1979)
4 - Centaur Aisle (Dec-1981)
5 - Ogre, Ogre (Sep-1982)
6 - Night Mare (Jan-1983)
7 - Dragon on a Pedestal (Oct-1983)
8 - Crewel Lye (Dec-1984)
9 - Golem in the Gears (Jan-1986)
10 - Vale of the Vole (Oct-1987)
11 - Heaven Cent (1988)
12 - Man from Mundania (Oct-1989)
13 - Isle of View (Oct-1990)
14 - Question Quest (Oct-1991)
15 - The Color of Her Panties (Sep-1992)
16 - Demons Don't Dream (1992)
17 - Harpy Thyme (1993)
18 - Geis of the Gargoyle (1994)
19 - Roc and a Hard Place (1995)
20 - Yon Ill Wind (1996)
21 - Faun & Games (Oct-1997)
22 - Zombie Lover (1998)
23 - Xone of Contention (1999)
24 - The Dastard (Oct-2000)
25 - Swell Foop (Oct-2001)
26 - Up In A Heaval (2002)
27 - Cube Route (Oct-2003)
28 - Currant Events (Oct-2004)
29 - Pet Peeve (Oct-2005)
30 - Stork Naked (Oct-2006)
31 - Air Apparent (Aug-2006)
32 - Two to the Fifth (Oct-2008)
33 - Jumper Cable (Oct-2009)
34 - Knot Gneiss (Dec-2010)
35 - Well-tempered Clavicle (Nov-2011)
36 - Luck of the Draw (Dec-2012)
37 - Esrever Doom (Oct-2013)
38 - Board Stiff (Jan-2014)
39 - Five Portraits (Oct-2014)
40 - Isis Orb (Oct-2016)
41 - Ghost Writer in the Sky (Apr-2017)
42 - Fire Sail (Nov-2019)
43 - Jest Right (Jul-2020)
44 - Skeleton Key (Feb-2021)
45 - A Tryst of Fate (Oct-2021)
46 - Six Crystal Princesses (Jun-2022)
47 - Apoca Lips (Feb-2023)

Book List in Order: 192 titles

  • Chthon

    • / Science Fiction
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    The Aton - 1

    Chthon was Piers Anthony’s first published novel in 1967, written over the course of seven years. He started it when he was in the US Army, so it has a long prison sequence that is reminiscent of that experience, being dark and grim. It features ...

  • Omnivore

    Of Man and Mantra - 1

    These are the species which lived on the mysterious planet Nacre. Three scientists came to Nacre to discover, to explore, to record. Utterly defenseless, they trekked through a grotesque jungle of multiform mushrooms and dense spore-clouds, hoping to...

  • Sos the Rope

    • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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    The Battle Circle Trilogy - 1

    Earth's demon. They call him Sos - a man mightier in strength and spirit than the greatest warriors of post-Blast legend. His past is shrouded in enigma, but now he wanders the earth, writing a heritage in blood and bravery. To some, he is savior; t...

  • Orn

    Of Man and Mantra - 2

  • Prostho Plus

    • / Science Fiction
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    What's keeping you from your grand tour of the universe? Are you afraid of being caught out in the vastness of space with a painful cavity and no one capable of fixing it? Well fear not--the galaxy is simply teeming with dentists!

    For Dr. Dill...

  • Var the Stick

    • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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    The Battle Circle Trilogy - 2

    Sol controlled the mountain and Sos the Empire. Two worlds so completely different from each other that they could not exist together on the same planet. There had to be war... Var was the chosen one. Half man, half animal, a mutant victim of the...

  • Triple Detente

  • Neq the Sword

    • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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    The Battle Circle Trilogy - 3

    An age of darkness was descending upon the Empire. Soon there would be no food, no weapons and no honour--the laws of the nomads were forgotten in the struggle to survive. Neq was the greatest of warriors. No man faced his sword without feeling i...

  • Phthor

    • / Science Fiction
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    The Aton - 2

    Phthor is the sequel to Chthon, less intricately structured and less complicated in plot, but still quite dark and ugly in theme and detail. Rather than flashbacks and flashforwards, it has a Y outline, with the stem the initial story and the ends a...



  • Ox

    Of Man and Mantra - 3

    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 keenest senses of any creatures in the universe. An...

  • Cluster

    The Cluster - 1

    "The CLUSTER series of SF adventures is set in a future focused on colonization of distant planets. Every living thing has a Kirlian aura that can be measured. Through transfer, a refinement of mattermission technology, the mind and personality of in...

  • Hasan

    In the days of Sinbad, the handsome young merchant Hasan quests forth from Bassorah, seeking great wealth. But Lo! The hand of Allah sets the youth upon a rare journey--into the heart of deadly adventure, unearthly peril...and magic. Enslaved by the ...

  • A Spell for Chameleon

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    A Xanth Novel - 1

    FOR LACK OF A SPELL...XANTH! That was the enchanted land where magic ruled--where every citizen had a special spell only he could cast. It was a land of centaurs and dragons and basilisks. For Bink of North Village, however, Xanth was no fairy ...

  • Chaining the Lady

    The Cluster - 2

    "CHAINING THE LADY is the second CLUSTER book. Melody, a product of Flint and the Andromedanââ,¬â"˘s mating in CLUSTER, must save the Milky Way Galaxy and create a place where creatures can transfer without limitations. Melody must survive in worlds...

  • The E.S.P. Worm

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    FIRST TOR PRINTING. Nov. 1986 mass market paperback, Piers Anthony (On A Pale Horse). Earth's first alien visitor looks like 12-foot long cabbage worm, acts like a spoiled brat, and delights in taking over human minds for fun....

  • Kirlian Quest

    The Cluster - 3

    THE CLIMAX TO AN EPIC STORY OF LOVE AND CONQUEST ON A GALACTIC SCALE The Second War of Energy is over, but hurtling toward Cluster is a million-ship spacefleet from the enemy galaxy of Amoeba -- and only Herald the Healer can stop it! From the Wor...

  • Castle Roogna

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    A Xanth Novel - 3

    Once upon a past. . . .Millie had been a ghost for 800 years. But now, restored by the magic of Xanth, she was again a maddeningly desirable woman. She could have had any man she wanted . . . except the one she did want, Jonathan the zombie. To grant...

  • Source of Magic

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    A Xanth Novel - 2

    A quest for the source of power threatened to doom the land of XanthAs a ruler of a country steeped in enchantment, King Trent was naturally curious about the source of its magic. It made sense to order Bink, the only one of his subjects immune to su...

  • God of Tarot

    The Miracle Planet - 1

    MOMENTS FROM NOW AND LIGHT YEARS AWAY... 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 apparit...



  • Vision of Tarot

    The Miracle Planet - 2

    WHERE NIGHTMARES HAVE PEOPLE! 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...

  • Thousandstar

    The Cluster - 4

    "The CLUSTER series of adventures is set in a future focused on colonization of distant planets, where every living thing has a Kirlian aura that can be measured. Through transfer, a refinement of mattermission technology, the mind and personality of...

  • Faith of Tarot

    The Miracle Planet - 3

    A WORLD WHERE FANTASY AND REALITY ARE ONE! 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 tr...

  • Split Infinity

    Apprentice Adept - 1

    THROUGH THE CURTAIN On the technological, decadent world of Proton, someone was trying to destroy Stile, serf and master Gamesman. His only escape lay through a mysterious "curtain" revealed by a loving robot. Beyond the curtain lay Phaze -- a wor...

  • Blue Adept

    Apprentice Adept - 2

    DOUBLE DESTINY For Stile, life was a matter of shuttling madly between two worlds, with the problems growing greater on each. On the science world of Proton, he was a serf, trying to prove his right to exist by competing in the Great Games. On Pha...

  • Centaur Aisle

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    A Xanth Novel - 4

    INTO DARKEST MUNDANIA Dor was having troubles growing up to be the next Magician-King of the magic Land of Xanth. He wanted no part of running the Kingdom. But now Good King Trent was leaving on a trade mission to non-magical Mundania, home of suc...

  • Juxtaposition

    Apprentice Adept - 3

    OUT OF PHAZE Stile had problems -- two whole worlds of problems, in fact. On Proton, a world of future science, his murder was averted only by the help of a lovely robot, who sent him through an invisible "curtain" to Phaze, an alternate world rule...

  • Viscous Circle

    The Cluster - 5

    A warlike alien species is bent on destroying a pacifist alien species in this intergalactic adventure novel from the New York Times–bestselling author.

    Viscous Circle is a story about a strange and inhuman race of beings and ...

  • Ogre, Ogre

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    A Xanth Novel - 5

    When a Nymph rides a Night Mare, Ogre beware!Smash knew all about ogres. After all, despite his having a human mother, Smash was an ogre himself. Ogres were not only huge and horribly ugly, as Smash was; they were also so stupid they could hardly spe...

  • Night Mare

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    A Xanth Novel - 6

    "BEWARE THE HORSEMAN!" The Nextwave of barbarian warriors was invading Xanth from the north, ravaging and destroying as they advanced. But Mare Imbrium had her own problems. Ever since she had gained the half soul, the night mare had begun to mish...



  • On a Pale Horse

    Incarnations of Immortality - 1

    THE MAN WHO MURDERED DEATH 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...

  • Refugee

    Bio of a Space Tyrant - 1

    Oct. 1983 Avon mass market paperback,15th printing. Piers Anthony (Being a Green Mother). This is the first in the series BIO OF A SPACE TYRANT, featuring the stages in the life of Hope Hubris, the Tyrant of Jupiter, and his beloved sister Spirit. - ...

  • Dragon on a Pedestal

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    A Xanth Novel - 7

    There was trouble in Xanth again -- all kinds of trouble in fact. The Gap Dragon had escaped from the Gap and was ravaging across the land. The forget-spell that had covered the Gap was breaking up into small forget-whorls that wandered about, givin...

  • Bearing an Hourglass

    Incarnations of Immortality - 2

    Like On a Pale Horse, this second, complete-in-itself novel of the Incarnations of Immortality is a richly imagined and always fascinating story. And again, Piers Anthony adds to his gripping plot a serious, though-provoking study of good and evil.&#...

  • Mercenary

    Bio of a Space Tyrant - 2

    SCOURGE OF THE ECLIPTIC 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, hi...

  • Crewel Lye

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    A Xanth Novel - 8

    A knight of ghosts and shadows!Jordan was a ghost in Castle Roogna now, spending his time with little five-year-old Ivy and watching his own past unfold on the magic tapestry. But once he had been a valorous knight, riding his ghost horse Pook on a f...

  • Steppe

    Thrust naked and helpless at the moment of his death into a world he thinks is hell, a Turkish warrior chieftain discovers that this world, which is a strange recreation of his own, is inhabited by a race of humans known as Galactics. Reissue....

  • With a Tangled Skein

    Incarnations of Immortality - 3

    Here in this third complete-in-itself novel of the Incarnations of Immortality, Piers Anthony weaves a fascinating plot as tangled as any skein of fate. This is Anthony at his most ingenious, with another gripping fantasy of the struggle of the incar...

  • Politician

    Bio of a Space Tyrant - 3

    POLITICAL PRISONER 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 "memwashed" tool of the enemy. And if his c...

  • Race Against Time

    John Smith is a typical teenager living in a world he believes to be America in the 1960s, but the strange behavior he sees forces him outside forbidden boundaries to discover the shocking truth. Reissue....



  • Executive

    Bio of a Space Tyrant - 4

    To pursue his ultimate goals, the tyrant of Jupiter disguises himself as a rebel leader in this sci-fi saga from the New York Times–bestselling author. He was shaping his times as no one before him dared, mercilessly scourging an entire planet ...

  • Uncollected Stars

    An anthology of sixteen neglected or forgotten masterpieces of science fiction encompasses works by such writers as Walter M. Miller, Jr., Lewis Padget, Jerome Bixby, Pauline Ashwell, and Donald E. Westlake...

  • Golem in the Gears

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    A Xanth Novel - 9

    A golem to the rescue!Grundy Golem was the size of an inconsequence, and nobody had any respect for him -- including Grundy! To prove himself, he volunteered to ride the Monster Under the Bed to the Ivory Tower to find little Ivy’s long-lost dragon...

  • Anthonology

  • Shade of the Tree

    The estate was Joshua Pinson's inheritance from his oddball uncle Elijah: isolated in the deep Florida woods, with a half-built solar house stocked with enough supplies to weather a siege. Josh decided it was time to rake his two young children away ...

  • The Ring

    After a youth spent trapped in space exile, Jeff Font returned to Earth to seek vengeance against the planetary mogul who had framed and destroyed Jeff's family. Jeff's plans backfired: he was captured, drugged, rammed through a computerized court sy...

  • Battle Circle

    Battle Circle is a trilogy of science fiction novels by Piers Anthony. Originally published separately, the trilogy was later combined into a single volume.[1] The three novels are: 1. Sos the Rope (1968) 2. Var the Stick (1972) 3. Neq the Sword (197...

  • Ghost

    When Space Captain Shetland, commander of an experimental deep-time ship, happens upon a ghost universe, his crew are shattered into beings of pure will, and he must help them to regain their humanity...

  • Wielding a Red Sword

    Incarnations of Immortality - 4

    WAR-AND HELL 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 office of the Incarnation of War. At first he thought his efforts could a...

  • Macroscope

    Macroscope Throughout history, man has been searching for better ways to gather information about his universe. But although they may have longed for it, not even the most brilliant minds could conceive of a device as infinitely powerful or as immeas...



  • Statesman

    Bio of a Space Tyrant - 5

    From refugee to tyrant of Jupiter, Hope Hubris is an exile of the planet he once ruled in this sci-fi saga from the New York Times–bestselling author. This is the fifth in the series Bio of a Space Tyrant, featuring the stages in the life of Ho...

  • Plague of Allos

    in The Blood of Ten Chiefs

    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.......

  • Rings of Ice

  • Being a Green Mother

    Incarnations of Immortality - 5

    THE GIFT AND THE CURSE 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 t...

  • Vale of the Vole

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    A Xanth Novel - 10

    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 ...

  • Tarot

    The miracle planet discovered, Explored-and revealed!Welcome to the fantastic planet of Tarot! It is a land of horror and adventure, a nightmarish realm beyond the curtain of the Animation, where dragons, demons, and unholy lusts abound.It is into th...

  • For Love of Evil

    Incarnations of Immortality - 6

    THE MAN WHO WOULD BE SATAN 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 wic...

  • Robot Adept

    Apprentice Adept - 5

    The robotic Mach and the human Bane are the only contact between the technological world of Photon and the fantastical world of Phaze. So the Adverse Adepts devise a scheme to control the duo by kidnapping their lovers....

  • Heaven Cent

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    A Xanth Novel - 11

    Heaven Cent continues the Xanth saga from New York Times bestselling fantasy author Piers Anthony. In the mind of Xanth's precious shapeshifting Prince Dolph, the perfect way to see the world is to search for the missing sorcerer, Humfrey. Setting of...

  • Out of Phaze

    Apprentice Adept - 4

    Two worlds - the scientific Proton, and the magical Phaze - exist side-by-side. Now, Mach has crossed from Proton to Phaze, switching places with his counterpart, Bane. And both must learn to survive in environments alien to their own nature.

    ...

  • Bio Of An Ogre

  • Unicorn Point

    Apprentice Adept - 6

    The combined magic and technology between the parallel worlds of Phaze and Proton is not enough to save the planets from a conquering invasion. Only Mach and Bane - robot and wizard, linked between worlds - have any chance of stopping this threat....

  • But What of Earth?

  • Mute

    Interstellar adventure awaits an unlikely hero when he’s recruited to save the galaxy in this thrilling space opera from the bestselling author.Mute is science fantasy of mutation and psi: special mental powers. The protagonist, Knot, is a doub...

  • The Apprentice Adept: Split Infinity, Blue Adept, Juxtaposition

  • Man from Mundania

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    A Xanth Novel - 12

    New York Times bestselling author Piers Anthony's Man from Mundania concludes the fan-favorite Xanth trilogyEmbark on a thrilling journey with Ivy, a young, bored out-of-her-wits princess trapped within the confinements of Castle Roogna. Yearning for...

  • Visual Guide to Xanth

  • And Eternity

    Incarnations of Immortality - 7

    IN PURSUIT OF THE ULTIMATE GOOD 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 -- t...

  • Balook

    • / Science Fiction
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    In the wake of technological breakthroughs, a nine-ton prehistoric balook is brought to life and befriended by a boy named Thor, but when the growing creature breaks out of his compound, a chaotic romp ensues. Reprint....

  • Phaze Doubt

    Apprentice Adept - 7

    With resource-rich Phaze/Proton threatened by the imperialistic Hectare and with the Adepts and Citizens incarcerated or in hiding, it falls to Nepe and Flach, two children with special powers, to save their world...

  • Through the Ice

  • Virtual Mode

    Mode - 1

    Colene does not know what to think of the stranger she has rescued. Darius tells her he has traveled from his reality to find her. In proving to Colene that other worlds do exist, he uses up the power of the artifact that would allow them to travel b...

  • Total Recall

  • Firefly

  • Return to Centaur

  • Isle of View

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy
    A Xanth Novel - 13

    LovelornLoveworn Love Lost

    Perplexed Prince Dolph, Xanth's precocious shapeshifter, should be in love but isn't. Nonetheless, he must chose between two fiancées -- Nada the uninterested and Electra the uninteresting -- or a...

  • Pornucopia

    • / Science Fiction
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    Prior Gross, the hero and sex object of this wild adventure, thinks his fantasies have all come true when a beautiful young woman seduces him on a public beach. She turns out to be a succubus, beginning his initiation into a realm populated by demons...

  • Tatham Mound

  • Question Quest

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    A Xanth Novel - 14

    A magician sends a melancholic maiden on a rescue mission in Hell in this humorous fantasy adventure by a New York Timesâ€"bestselling author. As one of the trouble-making twins of Castle Zombie, Lacuna used to have so much fun when she was a li...

  • Fractal Mode

    Mode - 2

    Four people with special qualities are brought across parallel universes to help their fifth member, Nona, the ninth child of a ninth child, overthrow the despots of her home universe and deliver power over to women. Reprint....

  • The Adventures of Kelvin of Rud Final Magic Orc's Opal & Mouvar'

    • / Science Fiction
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  • Dead Morn

    • / Science Fiction
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    With humankind surviving underground in the twenty-fifth-century's last city, a courageous man journeys back in time into Cuba's history to try to alter the past and stop the worldwide conflagration that would leave Earth a nuclear wasteland. Reprint...

  • Demons Don't Dream

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    A Xanth Novel - 16

    “Series fans will find themselves right at home” as a computer game draws two players into the illusion-, pun-, and dragon-filled land of Xanth (Kirkus Reviews).   Sixteen-year-old Dug has yet to be impressed by a computer game, but that’s...

  • Mercycle

    COMBINE: one ordinary bicycle, one fearless explorer, one miracle of technology ADD: oceans of water, a mermaid or tow, a dash of danger STIR AND ENJOY!...

  • The Color of Her Panties

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    A Xanth Novel - 15

    A merwoman and a goblin girl each take on dangerous quests in this hilarious fantasy adventure by a New York Timesâ€"bestselling author. In Xanth, almost everything is magic, and whatever isn’t is probably lying. The land is also more dangerou...

  • The Caterpillar's Question

    En route to a special clinic across the country, mute and physically handicapped Tappy Concord persuades her driver, struggling art student Jack, to take a detour to a world tyrannized by an all-powerful galactic empire...

  • Killobyte

    In the game of Killobyte... a wheelchair-bound cop can stand and fight an army of sorcerers and dragons. In the game of Killobyte... a heartbroken girl can heal her pain through role-playing magic and adventure. In the game of Killobyte... a myster...

  • Isle of Woman

    Geodyssey - 1

    A magnificent saga of passion, heroism, and survival, Piers Anthony's 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 on ...

  • Letters to Jenny

    "Dear Mr. Anthony,

    "I need your help. I'm at wit's end and am grabbing at straws, so I decided to write to you in hopes that you might take a few minutes of your time for my daughter Jennifer.

    "Jennifer is twelve years old, and has very...

  • Harpy Thyme

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    A Xanth Novel - 17

    Leave Mundania. Enter the fabulous, wonder-filled land of Xanth. Gloha is the only creature of her kind in alt the world of Xanth, the beautiful offspring of a chance mating between a harpy and a goblin. As she grew to womanhood, she wondered whe...

  • Hard Sell

  • Alien Plot

    Alien Plot: A man of our world is sent across the boundaries of an alien dimension. His task is to infiltrate the native culture--But once there he discovers that an alien plot of ground can become home.

    This brand-new story leads off a collec...

  • Chaos Mode

    Mode - 3

    The third chapter in the Mode saga reunites some old friends...Colene, the young woman from Earth grappling with terrible suicidal depressions... Darius, the king from another planet who won her love... and Seqiro, the telepathic horse who shares the...

  • Hope of Earth

    Geodyssey - 2

    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 and new and shinning future.In Isle of Woman and Sha...

  • Geis of the Gargoyle

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    A Xanth Novel - 18

    A gargoyle finds himself caught between a rock and a hard place in this Xanth adventure that “should delight Anthony’s many fans” (Publishers Weekly).   As a gargoyle, Gary Gar has one job in Xanth: to protect the Swan Knee River from the ...

  • Shame of Man

    Geodyssey - 3

    A magnificent epic of danger, desire, triumph and tragedy, Piers' Anthony's 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 ...

  • Tales from the Great Turtle

    A rich collection of stories inspired by Native American tradition includes the works of such writers as Piers Anthony, Ed Gorman, Mike Resnick, Jane Yolen, Meredith Raymond, and Alan Rodgers. Reprint....

  • Iron Maiden

    • / Science Fiction
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    Bio of a Space Tyrant - 6

    From a New York Times–bestselling author: The revealing final book in this sci-fi epic tracks the rise and fall of Jupiter’s tyrant—from the perspective of his sister. The final installment of the Bio of a Space Tyrant series covers...

  • Roc and a Hard Place

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    A Xanth Novel - 19

    “Puns and playfulness reign supreme” as a demoness learns that big birds of a feather don’t flock together in the New York Timesâ€"bestselling Xanth series (The Toronto Star).   Seeking a solution to a perplexing personal problem, the dele...

  • The Willing Spirit

    Spirituality, fantasy, and mythology merge in this “lighthearted, agreeably diverting yarn, duly respectful of India’s cultures and customs” (Kirkus Reviews). Hari, a remarkably well-set-up young lad, has spent his entire life in a ...

  • Yon Ill Wind

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    A Xanth Novel - 20

    This Xanth villain is full of hot air. “Anthony’s unflagging sparkle, verve and wordplay spin everyday trials of Mundane life into storytelling gold” (Publishers Weekly).   A fickle flux in the fabric of space has allowed a horrendous hurr...

  • Earth

    Aton loved a Minionette, yet mankind depised and feared this almost mythical siren - but no one could tell him why. Banished to the hot garnet mines, Aton sought answers. And when he could not find them, he was determined to seek them elsewhere, but ...

  • The Continuing Xanth Saga

  • Faun & Games

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    A Xanth Novel - 21

    The magical and mirth-filled land of Xanth holds many, marvels. But now an extraordinary new aspect of this remarkable realm unfolds as young Forrest Faun's quest takes him to a tiny planet hidden in the heart of Xanth. There, with a delightful "day ...

  • Spider Legs

    At a time when Earth's hungry inhabitants demand more than even the ocean's endless boundaries can provide, strange things are born in the oceanic depths--things that the sea throws back up onto the land in retaliation of decades of pollution and abu...

  • Volk

    Piers Anthony is the acclaimed author of more than 100 novels and short story collections. His books include the Xanth series, the Mode series, Chthon, and Total Recall. Volk is Piers Anthony’s serious novel of World War II ...

  • Zombie Lover

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    A Xanth Novel - 22

    Something’s rotten in the land of Xanth -- and it’s not just the undead -- in this “cheeky” adventure in the New York Timesâ€"bestselling series (Publishers Weekly).   Horrors and hilarity collide as a fate far worse than death awaits a ...

  • Quest for the Fallen Star

    Beneath the twin suns Ellistar and Deneob, the Realm of Infinitera is menaced by the Dark One and his minions, the Illcreatures. And in these strange times has come a thing never seen before: a star which has tumbled from the sky, holding a power of ...

  • Dream a Little Dream

    Nola and Tina are both girls with problems. They don't know each other yet, though they will; each is a Creator, with the magical ability to turn dreams into reality. That would be a powerful gift--if either knew that she had it. And this world is ha...

  • Muse of Art

    Geodyssey - 4


    A towering testament of ambition and desire, hope and despair, Piers Anthony's epic Geodyssey saga is nothing less than the story of humanity itself. As seen through the eyes of a handful of courageous, passionate men and women reborn again and a...

  • Xone of Contention

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    A Xanth Novel - 23

    Climate and culture shock ensue when Xanthians swap bodies with mere humans in this madcap adventure in the New York Timesâ€"bestselling series.   All Breanna of the Black Wave and her newfound love, Justin Tree, want is a little time to get to ...

  • The Dastard

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    A Xanth Novel - 24

    Many malevolent menaces have imperiled the magical land of Xanth in its long and storied history. But none has been as despicably dangerous as the Dastard-a craven miscreant who sold his soul to a detestable demon for the power to erase events. Now t...

  • DoOon Mode

    Mode - 4

    Beyond the world we know there is a multiverse of Modes where many strange realities interlock in an infinitely intricate pattern, and a perverse and deranged Emperor plays a deadly multidimensional game with human pawns as his slaves.Now, with DoOon...

  • Swell Foop

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    A Xanth Novel - 25

    A MATTER OF GRAVITY Someone-or some thing-has kidnapped the dreaded Demon Earth. If he isn't found, the very fabric of our world will unravel, removing the Earth's gravitational field, and, incidentally, that of the magical land of Xanth as well! ...

  • Amazon Slaughter and Curse of the Ninja

  • Kiai! and Mistress of Death

  • Up In A Heaval

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    A Xanth Novel - 26

    “The 26th installment of Anthony’s popular Xanth series contains a wealth of puns and wordplay, as well as a host of ingenuous and likable protagonists.” -- Library JournalAn innocent piece of Mundane Snail Mail has provoked the dreaded Demon ...

  • How Precious Was That While

    An uncensored, uncompromising autobiography from the New York Timesâ€"bestselling author of the Xanth series.Piers Anthony tells his own remarkable life story in this candid autobiography, a volume that is sure to intrigue and entertain his many fans...

  • Key to Havoc

    ChroMagic - 1

    ChroMagic is a brand-new epic fantasy series from the Master of Fantasy and Best-Selling Author Piers Anthony. Mr. Anthony is best known for his wonderful Xanth series with its creative magic, colorful characters, fantastic monsters, and of course-th...

  • The Magic Fart

  • Cube Route

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    A Xanth Novel - 27

    For nearly three decades, Piers Anthony's bestselling Xanth series has been delighting tens of thousands of fantasy fans around the world. Now, with Cube Route, the series' twenty-seventh adventure, Anthony has penned a tale that adds another dime...

  • Key to Chroma

    ChroMagic - 2

    Key to Chroma The Second Novel in the Epic ChroMagic Fantasy Series 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 o...

  • Key to Destiny

    ChroMagic - 3

    The Third Novel in the Epic ChroMagic Fantasy Series 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 Gl...

  • Currant Events

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    A Xanth Novel - 28

    When Clio, the Muse of History, sat down to pen the twenty-eighth volume in the Chronicles of Xanth, she was stunned to discover it was already there! And, what was worse, it was totally unreadable, for the words on its pages were fuzzed beyond co...

  • Pet Peeve

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    A Xanth Novel - 29

    A relentless horde of renegade robots has plunged the fate of Xanth into dire peril. All that stands between the enchanted land and destruction is a most unlikely hero, a moody, mild-mannered Goblin named Goody, who must summon all of his courage and...

  • Air Apparent

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    A Xanth Novel - 31

    When the Good Magician Humfrey's son Hugo suddenly vanishes, his disappearance sets in motion a series of madcap misadventures that send a collection of colorful characters on a perilous pair of parallel quests. Among them are Debra, a pretty young g...

  • Stork Naked

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    A Xanth Novel - 30

    In his 30th rollicking chronicle of the enchanted land of Xanth, Piers Anthony reveals unexplored new dimensions of his magical realm. Stork Naked tells the tale of Surprise Golem, an expectant mother who has just lost her brand-new baby!For in Xanth...

  • Key to Liberty

    ChroMagic - 4

    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 c...

  • Relationships

  • Relationships, Vol. I

  • Tortoise Reform

    Rowan is a very lonely ten-year-old girl. Her parents sent her to stay with her aunt and uncle, and she feels rejected by everyone around her. She tends to get into accidental mischief, which causes Rowan's relatives to keep threatening to send her t...

  • Under a Velvet Cloak

    Incarnations of Immortality - 8

    The eighth book in Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series. 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 mysteri...

  • Relationships, Vol. II

  • Key To Survival

    ChroMagic - 5

    Key to Survival is the fifth and concluding quarter-million word sexy ChroMagic fantasy novel. 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 th...

  • Two to the Fifth

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    A Xanth Novel - 32

    The future of Xanth is in frightful peril. A powerful magical bird named Ragna Roc has embarked on a campaign to become absolute ruler of that mystical realm. Those who swear loyalty to him are spared. The rest are simply disappeared. So powerful ...

  • Relationships, Vol. III

  • Jumper Cable

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    A Xanth Novel - 33

    In the thirty-third thrilling escapade in Piers Anthony's rousing Xanth fantasy series, an adventurous arachnid named Jumper must assume human form to save the enchanted realm from a cosmic peril. A cataclysmic battle between two all-powerful Demo...

  • Juliet

  • Piers Anthonys' SOS the Rope

    • Wandering tribes of primitive humans meet and fight and love and die. When one tribe meets another, individuals fight inside a Battle Circle. The loser must become a member of the victorious tribe. Each warrior is named by his weapon. When S...

  • Climate of Change

    Geodyssey - 5

    A remarkable epic of passion and courage, savagery and survival, Piers Anthony's Geodyssey is a saga unlike any ever written. It is nothing less than the story of humanity itself, told through the lives of a handful of extraordinary men and women reb...

  • Knot Gneiss

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    A Xanth Novel - 34

    Wenda Woodwife has a knotty problem--her mood swings have sent her beloved husband, Prince Charming, off on Adventure. She seeks the cure from the Good Magician Humphrey, only to discover that he has a knotty problem of his own and that only Wenda Wo...

  • Relationships 4

  • Eroma

  • Amoeba

    Follow Tod Timmonds as he leaves his mundane life behind and embarks on a remarkable trail of adventure and uncertainly.  As Tod navigates the trail he encounters a mix of creatures from alternate realities, periods in time, and different planets.Â...

  • Beetle Juice

    Welcome back to the universe spanning realm of the Amoeba, where harmony is entrusted to an unlikely group of heroes, and where, when the ordinary no longer applies, the extraordinary comes into play.  Tod Timmonds and his sexy team of outcasts are...

  • The Sopaths

    Killing children is an ugly business, but the alternative is so much uglier. Abner Slate just watched his five-year-old daughter, Olive, kill his wife and son. Olive is a sopath. Born without souls, sopaths are children who will lie, cheat, rape, and...

  • Well-tempered Clavicle

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    A Xanth Novel - 35

    Picka Bones and his sister Joy'nt are off in search of adventure with three creatures newly arrived from Mundania--and not the sort of creatures you might expect! Join them in a madcap quest, in this 35th tale of the land of Xanth....

  • Serial

  • Shepherd

    The second in a New York Times bestselling author's wildly imaginative series about the nature of consciousness, set on a planet of unusual animals. When Shep participates in the student exchange program, he finds himself in the body of a man on ...

  • To Be A Woman

    A humanoid robot serves as a perfect female companionuntil she achieves consciousnessin this wildly different story from a New York Times bestselling author. Humanoid robots are surely in our future, but their uses are likely to be limited to bod...

  • Knave

  • Relationships V

  • Pandora Park

    In Albany, New York, Mark hates getting dumped at the mall park while his mom shops. It's so embarrassing! But Mark quickly changes his mind after he discovers a mysterious path leading to a magical forest. In Bejing, China, Kelsie finds a similar pa...

  • Awares

    The humanoid heroine Elasa fights to save the world in this story by the New York Times bestselling author of To Be a Woman . Elasa contacts the very special Awares, folk who attune so perfectly to their environment that they can disappear, lite...

  • Flytrap

    A thought-provoking tale of female robots and sentient animals by a New York Times bestselling author. Elasa the robot's friend Mona exchanges to the colony planet to occupy the body of a woman five months pregnant. Even so, she gets more than sh...

  • Luck of the Draw

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    A Xanth Novel - 36

    Bryce is summoned to Xanth as part of a wager between the Demons Earth and Xanth. To his surprise, he has left behind his home and family and eighty-year-old body forever, in exchange for youth and magic….and a quest. He must court and marry Prince...

  • Odd Exam

    Odd Exam is a novella from Piers Anthony about an unusual college entrance examination.Entrance exams are taken in the form of a multi-player online game in a semi-virtual reality, with portals to other worlds and alien monsters.For those who qualif...

  • Esrever Doom

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    A Xanth Novel - 37

    Piers Anthony’s 37th adventure in Xanth changes the Mood to one of Doom! Kody woke up in a hospital bed, not knowing how he got there. Before his questions could be answered, he was told that he was about to undergo surgery, and that there could...

  • Board Stiff

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    A Xanth Novel - 38

    "I'm actually a smart girl who would make any man an excellent wife. But no man sees that. No man is interested in my mind or personality, just my whatevers. So here is my wish: I'm board stiff. I want Adventure, Excitement, and Romance.” So begins...

  • Aliena

  • The E. S. P. Worm

    A slimy, telepathic alien throws the universe into chaos in this science fiction classic cowritten by the New York Times–bestselling author. The cast of cosmic characters: A prodigal worm, a telepathic, egotistical, totally unscrupulous little ...

  • Aliena Too

    An alien starfish and a human man must learn to live in each other’s bodies in Piers Anthony’s ingenious sequel to the science fiction gem Aliena Along with fellow members of her sapient starfish race, Aliena traveled many light-years to Earth. ...

  • Cautionary Tales

  • WereWoman

    In this delectable fantasy romp, a shape-shifting private detective with sexual identity issues hunts a serial killer preying on the Supernatural community Who but the indomitable Piers Anthony could write a hard-boiled detective-novel-fantasy-comic ...

  • Five Portraits

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    A Xanth Novel - 39

    Piers Anthony delivers another tale set in the bestselling world of Xanth, filled with magic, surprises, adventure, and a few puns. Here’s what the author has to say about his new book: “Five Portraits is a kind of sequel to Board Stiff in th...

  • The Pornucopia Compendium

    Pornucopia Pornucopia is a picaresque black comedy that transgresses all bounds of everyday good taste. It begins in a near-future world where sex-vending machines and genital transplants are taken for granted. Prior Gross, the hero and sex object of...

  • The Worm Returns

    Way out West, a bad-ass bank robber becomes Earth's last hope...Bad Buffalo is a rootin', tootin', sharp-shootin' son of a gun. He's also the roughest, toughest, meanest gunfighter the West has ever known. In fact, his only friend is a horse named Ho...

  • Captive

    Dane at 18 is a rich young man, the likely heir of a highly successful company CEO. He is abducted and held for ransom by Clare, 25, a lovely former prostitute. Bored in a hot cabin without electricity they strip for comfort. One thing leads to anoth...

  • Noah's Brick

    11 year old Noah discovers a remarkable brick that has three holes on one side and four holes on the other side, all of the holes passing completely through it. How can this be? He knows others will think this is nonsense, but he is determined to fin...

  • Neris

    Doris hears a compelling song, the reverse of a siren song because it summons women. Nereus, god of the sea, desires her so he can sire a son after having 50 daughters, and she must go to him; her groin is burning. The result is Neris (siren spelled ...

  • Hair Power

    Hair - 1

    Terminal cancer patient, Quiti, walks into an abandoned building planning on taking her life. Instead, she encounters a telepathic ball of hair that insists it is an alien seeking to facilitate diplomatic communication on Earth. Quiti assumes it is a...

  • Pira

  • Writer's Retweet

    Horrifying illusions. Classified government operations. Heavily guarded secrets. Cryptic rumors. Dangerous prisoners. Irresistible passion. Demonic magic. Piers Anthony weaves this and more into Writer’s Retweet, a collection of five short stories ...

  • Soul of the Cell

  • Service Goat

    Orphaned and blind seven-year-old Callie has a service animal â€" a goat with extraordinary powers.
    Ben Hemoth is a down-on-his luck news reporter facing prison. Needing to save his job and his reputation, he teams up with Venus, a young seductre...

  • Isis Orb

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    A Xanth Novel - 40

    A quest to fulfill a lifelong wish leads to magic, adventure -- and puns -- as the New York Times-bestselling author revisits the enchanted land of Xanth.  In Xanth, everyone has a talent. But that doesn’t mean everyone loves his talent, and no...

  • Hair Suite

    Hair - 2

    Quiti and the rest of the Hair Suits have just set up the Hair Suite, the embassy of the alien Hair Balls, when they learn they have competition. Alien cyborgs called Chip Monks want to win Earth for themselves. The two species must duel for control....

  • Ghost Writer in the Sky

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    A Xanth Novel - 41

    Two Ordinary People from Mundania travel to Xanth to defeat a rogue Night Colt in the latest in a beloved series from bestselling author Piers Anthony. The Night Colt has one ambition: to deliver dreams to the deserving. Unfortunately, only Night...

  • Relationships 6

    This is the sixth volume of stories in this series. This time there is one about the idealized love of a man for a mute wild girl, and another about an older woman who takes a hot young lover. There is one brief essay relating to my own relationship...

  • Hair Peace

    Hair - 3

    The third novella in the Hair Suit series following Hair Power and Hair Suite. Quiti and her friend's child Idola, help a lost alien child they name Flower. That soon brings Galactic complications for Flower's people are like Gypsies, not wel...

  • Fire Sail

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    A Xanth Novel - 42

    The New York Times-bestselling series continues with this pun-tastic epic quest and far-flung fantasy adventure. Lydell, a shy, naive man of twenty-one, and world-weary grandmother Grania could not be more different. But when their paths cross on...

  • Relationships 8

    This is the 8th volume in an ongoing series!So what do we have this time? A story about an android in the form of, yes, a beautiful woman, who achieves consciousness and makes the most of it, to the dismay of the company boss. Another of a mother who...

  • Little Boy Lost

    A companion volume to Little Girl Lost: Thirteen Tales of Youth Disrupted, this multinational anthology has brought together authors from all across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, representing a variety of genres including horror,...

  • Jest Right

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    A Xanth Novel - 43

    All of Xanth is a stage as an unlikely hero saves the show in the New York Timesâ€"bestselling series. There’s no shortage of laughs when Jess is around; she’s been cursed to have nobody take her seriously. But her dubious talent comes in han...

  • Skeleton Key

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    A Xanth Novel - 44

    There’s no dancing around a demonic threat in the fantasy world of Xanth in the New York Times-bestselling series. Squid, the alien cuttlefish, is getting an upgrade: a boost to her shape-changing talent so she can lead a mission against a fore...

  • Read the Read

    A lonely young girl helps a lost skeleton boy find his way.A man and his inner child fall in love with an apparition.And an eerie new playmate draws them all together.These three delightful tales are sure to charm their way into your heart!Read the R...

  • The Good, the Bad, & the Cute

    Modern or antique; benign or malevolent; porcelain, stuffed, articulated, or life-size, dolls have long been a subject of fascination. This eclectic collection of diminutive tales explores the many enchanting facets of these inanimate curiosities and...

  • A Tryst of Fate

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    A Xanth Novel - 45

    You’re better wed than dead -- even in Xanth -- in the hilariously punny new adventure in the fantasy series soon to be adapted for film and television!   Squid may only be a tween alien cuttlefish, but her feelings for Chaos, her Demon boyfri...

  • Six Crystal Princesses

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    A Xanth Novel - 46

    In this heroic Xanth adventure from the New York Timesâ€"bestselling author, there’s no time like the present to free six plucky princesses from the past.   Young Vinia is enjoying her life with her boyfriend, Prince Ion. They complement each ...

  • Apoca Lips

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    A Xanth Novel - 47

    No one’s safe when a pundemic spreads through the land of Xanth in this madcap adventure from the New York Timesâ€"bestselling author.   What’s a single prince to do when confronted with the baton of protagonism? Why, become the hero of his ...

  • Quinquepedalian

    When a survey team stumbles upon enormous hoofprints on an uncharted planet, they're driven by curiosity to uncover the creature behind them. But Charles Tinnerman soon realizes the footprints belong to a beast beyond imagination: a towering mons...

  • Faux Paws

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy

    Sometimes, life can be taken at face value; other times, there is more than meets the eye. Is your house pet simply an average cat, or is she a witch's familiar eagerly searching for her companion? Was that animal you encountered in the woods just a ...

  • Realty Check

    • / Fantasy
    • Buy Buy

    Piers Anthony, one of the best selling writers of science fiction and fantasy, displays all of his literary virtues in "Reality Check," a magnum opus of why Anthony is more than an entertaining writer. He is an important writer.

    This novel builds ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Piers Anthony has published 192 books.

Piers Anthony does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Quinquepedalian, was published in December 2023.

The first book by Piers Anthony, Chthon, was published in January 1967.

Yes. Piers Anthony has 13 series.
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