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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I think I read the first couple chapters and was wondering where it was going and why there was so much random nudity and apparent misogyny and when or if I'd get subverted. At a certain point I never got around to continuing to read it and now looking at the reviews here, it doesn't look like it actually goes anywhere. Piers Anthony claims to never had "writer's block"...he powers through in his formulaic way (write xx chapters today, proof xx chapters of galleys later, etc.) I like to read his stuff, but my read on his formula is this: imaginative and engaging first book in a series; lots of fillers with his rarely subtle misogyny thrown in; and eventually, deterioration of what showed promise. I liked this the first time around, though never made it through his entire series, but still grabbed it for a quick nostalgic read as part of my Year of Nostalgic Rereads. I did and do think it imaginative, fun, and engaging. Fortunately, the writing is as most of his other works so simple (and the humor as always, juvenile)that it is a very quick read. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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HTML: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 world totally ruled by magic. There, his first encounter was with an amulet that turned into a demon determined to choke him to death. And there, he soon learned, his alternate self had already been murdered by sorcery, and he was due to be the next victim. ??Know thyself!? the infallible Oracle told him. But first he must save himself as he shuttled between worlds. On Proton, his fate depended on winning the great Games. On Phaze, he could survive only by mastering magic. And if he used any magic at all, the werewolf and the unicorn who were his only friends were determined to kil Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Piers Anthony is a clever tongue-in-cheek fantasist who delights in building unusual worlds. In Split Infinity, he gives us two for the price of one. We begin with a domed city on the planet Proton, a high-tech dystopia replete with humanoid robots and ray guns. Our hero, Stiles, is an indentured serf hoping to earn his citizenship by winning at the national games that include everything from ping pong and chess to fencing and horse racing. He is good with horses and has the classic jockey stature. Unknown citizens want to end his racing career. Another unknown citizen provides him with a sexy humanoid robot bodyguard. Then it is magic portal time, and we are off to a pastoral world replete with unicorns and werewolves. Stiles discovers he has innate magic powers.
A word about sex: clothes are illegal in the domed city, and all the women and fem robots are well-endowed. Anthony riffs on the later novels of Robert Heinlein, and such eighties pulpiness is not for everyone:--four stars, just barely. ( )