Piers Anthony - Incarnations of Immoratality

[Tansy]

Hands down, my favorite volume of the series is Bearing an Hourglass. Its complexity I found fun.


Tansy, I would highly recommend buying every IoI book you can find. It's a great series, I discovered it only a few years ago, but I don't regret buying any of them.




As for Xanth, it's SUPPOSED to be silly and childish. That's the charm of it. He's changed later volumes up some so it doesn't seem that way anymore-Xanth is always growing up, sigh-but it hasn't totally lost its innocent quality.

Maybe I should re-read a Xanth book as I was a bit too serious as a kid

I've been meaning to buy IoI for years as they did leave me with fond memories and I have since reccommended them to a number of friends, there are just too many other books to buy that I haven't read yet

 

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

Hehe. Yeah, Xanth appeals to a strange audience, I've noticed.......


Still, it's no regret buying the IoI series, since I enjoy rereading them all multiple times......except perhaps for Wielding a Red Sword, since in many ways that didn't fit in too well with the rest of the series........

 

[jenna]

I had thought that the new volume would start further in the past, but I was still hoping it would end up in the time of the other books, in the same way that For Love of Evil did. My fave character was always Parry, so I'm hoping that at least he will make an appearance..

The good thing about IoI is that you can pick up the whole series (minus new one) very cheap from used stores. I have two sets, one from a used store, and one that I couldn't help but buy when I found it new in a sci-fi book store. I have pretty much cleared out all the Piers Anthony from all the used stores I know around the city here!

 

[Tansy]

Just checked on amazon and they have some of them for a penny

 

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

Hehe. I can pretty well clear out Anthony as well around places. But that also includes Xanth and his Proton/Phaze novels. I even bought his Tarot trilogy a while back.....

 

[chrispenycate]

Ah, seems I'm the only one who started with "Omninivore", "Macroscope" and "Chthon" back when he wrote (more or less) Science fiction.
Mind you, my personal favourite of his is "Steppe", that nobody else seems to have heard of.

 

[Rosemary]

Ah, seems I'm the only one who started with "Omninivore", "Macroscope" and "Chthon" back when he wrote (more or less) Science fiction.
Mind you, my personal favourite of his is "Steppe", that nobody else seems to have heard of.

I being one of them Chris!
I've read a few of his books, quite enjoyed them but not ones I would re-read. Ride A Pale Horse I thought was good, also Wielding A Red Sword and Bearing An Hour Glass. Some parts in the books seemed rather strange, weird in fact!

 

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

Hehe. "Upon a Pale Horse" RM.

I don't know why Piers Anthony doesn't seem to be too popular around here, I personally find his work to be pretty good. Then again, I love complexity in stories, and am a pretty diehard fan of classic fantasy, though he IS starting to tick me off a bit by mixing SF and fantasy together these days.......

 

[Rosemary]

Hehe. "Upon a Pale Horse" RM.

I don't know why Piers Anthony doesn't seem to be too popular around here, I personally find his work to be pretty good. Then again, I love complexity in stories, and am a pretty diehard fan of classic fantasy, though he IS starting to tick me off a bit by mixing SF and fantasy together these days.......

Mistake noted Karn.

Not too popular? I guess it's much the same as music Karn, we all have such varied tastes.

 

[DeepThought]

Heard that some of his SF is better than the fantasy ones...though I've yet to read any of his works. Steered clear of his books for a long time after hearing from a friend that in one of his novels he goes into quite detail about an underage sexual relationship even verging on pedophilia! (think it was Bio of Space Tyrant not sure, can any of the fans shed some light on this, any shred of truth to this?). Have a fair amount of novels from the infamous pun ridden Xanth cycle at hand and Incantations of Immortality series up to Being a Green Mother I think. Anyway, thinking of giving On a Pale Horse a try, finally.

Cheers, DeepThought

 

[ghost8772]

never read bio of a space tyrant, but Macroscope was a good read. though read it after the first time through Incarnations. I'm with you Jenna, I'm hoping he followed form and brought in the current incarnations in the story. considering Nox's involvement in the last two books I don't see how that can be avoided. not sure how this will go though, since Parry had nearly half an eon of nothing going on of importance that was glossed over, until the current century. Sigh... think I'm gonna head out and find a copy. probably have it done by the end of the weekend, if I can find a copy.

 

[ghost8772]

Well, only took another week to get a copy. starting to read it now.

 

[ghost8772]

Okay, got through Under a Velvet Cloak. kinda mixed feelings. he's definitely pushing Sex a lot more than he did in the first five books, no idea why he took on the "alternate timelines" direction though. I does add a bit of volume to the story, and one sub plot, ah well picture me shrugging. better book than some, not so good as others.

 

[jenna]

Without giving me ANY spoilers, can you tell me if any past characters appear in the book??

 

[ghost8772]

actually first page mentions its a different timeline. the other incarnations are nearly incidental. nothing near the involvement in For Love of Evil, or and Eternity.

ok, no spoilers noted. looks good.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Ah, seems I'm the only one who started with "Omninivore", "Macroscope" and "Chthon" back when he wrote (more or less) Science fiction.
Mind you, my personal favourite of his is "Steppe"nobody else seems to have heard of.

Yes "Steppe" that was not a bad novel, I also liked "Hasan" and "Pretender" was OK as well.

 

[RJLeahy]

I have to say I'm one of those who really enjoy Piers' style of writing. Also, he is one of the better people in the business, always willing to help new writers. In fact he blurbed my first book, which was very kind of him.

 

[ghost8772]

I recall something like him having better contact with fans than I've heard of anyone else.... also heard that a number of his Xanth books have been puns sent in by readers.... I do like the Incarnations books especially, the mixing up of science and Magic is the first I've really run across. Amber books are similar, so are The Roads of Heaven by Melissa Scott, but usually the science and Magic are kept strictly divided. Macroscope I also enjoyed.