- American Fantasy fiction, Modern fiction, Fiction, Fiction - Fantasy
On the technological, decadent world of Proton,someone is trying to destroy Stile,serf and master Gamesmen.His only escape lay through a mysterious "curtain" revealed by a loving robot.
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Classical in form, unpretentious, contemporary and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Piers Anthony
- First published
- 1980
- Pages
- 370
- Publisher
- L'Atalante, Random House Publishing Group, Grafton Books
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9780586054444
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“He walked with the assurance of stature, and most others deferred to him subtly.”
Piers Anthony was born in Oxford, England. When he was four years old, his family immigrated to the United States. He graduated from Goddard College in Vermont in 1956, the year he met and married his wife, Carol Marble. After working at odd jobs, he joined the U.S. Army in 1957 for steady income and medical insurance. In 1958, he became a U.S. citizen. He became an editor and cartoonist for the Battalion newspaper. He left the army in 1959 and briefly taught public school before becoming a full-time writer. Anthony currently lives with his wife on a tree farm which he owns in Florida.
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