Piers Anthony

Macroscope is a novel by science fiction and fantasy writer Piers Anthony. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1970. Macroscope was first published in 1969 and in some respects reflects the idealistic values of that time.

In this article: Macroscope, Hugo Award, Sidney Lanier, and John Conway

...modern person transported into a world of the bizarre and somewhat magical. When I was in high school, I read fantasy voraciously... Piers Anthony, David Eddings, Terry Brooks, Katherine Kurtz, Raymond Feist, Robert Lynn Aspirin, Roger...

In this article: Never Bend, Katherine Kurtz, Christopher Stasheff, Raymond Feist, Robert Lynn Aspirin, Stephen R. Donaldson, David Eddings, and Terry Brooks

...was to have a book where each chapter was written by a different author. That project fell apart, but Piers Anthony and Philip Jose Farmer later decided they wanted to salvage something from it by morphing it into a two person collaboration,...

In this article: Philip Jose Farmer, Cluster, Letters to Jenny, and Caterpillar

...they claim not to be a vanity press on the grounds of that ownership of the book remains with the author and that they do not force the author to buy copies of the book. On the other side of the debate, they do charge up-front fees without...

In this article: Xlibris, Iuniverse, Random House, Chief Executive, Parent company, Harper's Magazine, and AuthorHouse

...is the thirty-first book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony, which was first mentioned in the "Author's Note" in Currant Events. Piers Anthony stated that notions from his readers have already been set aside for use in this installment in...

In this article: Air Apparent and Currant Events

...research into gaming and diabetes. His description of Baal's condition was based on several real-life cases he investigated. (Anthony himself has been diagnosed with Type II diabetes , though the diagnosis was later called into question, as...

In this article: Killobyte, Suicide, Type I diabetes, Type II diabetes, Dehydration, Chronic fatigue syndrome, and Palpitation

...to move only her eyes and one finger. Feeling that Jenny was losing hope, her mother wrote to Anthony, asking if he would write a letter to Jenny, as he was one of her favorite authors. Anthony corresponded regularly. Anthony wrote a letter...

In this article: Letters to Jenny, Elfquest, and Isle of View

See more characters of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony at List of Xanth characters. The Centaur family served as major character s in the Xanth series by Piers Anthony. He is an uncle of Chester Centaur . He was exiled from Centaur Isle...

In this article: Question Quest, Vale of the Vole, Isle of View, and Man from Mundania

...it would watch our shows for us, and we would "hit clubs," "go on dates," and do other things we'd read about in books not written by Piers Anthony. But even though DVRs are now found in an estimated 30 percent of TV-watching US households,...

In this article: Dollhouse, Time travel, TiVo, Fringe, Hulu, Microsoft, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and Joss Whedon

Cluster is a series of science fiction novels by Piers Anthony. Anthony originally conceived of and wrote the series as a trilogy but later added two additional volumes. As the series opens, humanity has colonized an area of the galaxy...

In this article: Cluster, Andromeda, Milky Way, Laser Books, Earth Day, and Vision