![]() ![]() ![]() Chthon ( 1967), his first, is a complexly structured adventure of self-discovery partially set in a vast Underground Prison, and making ambitious though sometimes over-baroque use of Pastoral and other parallels its sequel, Phthor ( 1975), is less far-reaching, less irritating, but also less involving. His two most ambitious sf novels came early in his career. ![]() He has written large amounts of both sf and fantasy though there is no clear demarcation, it is certainly the case that he has more and more concentrated his energies on the latter form. Born in England, he was educated in the USA and took out US citizenship in 1958, beginning to publish short stories with "Possible to Rue" for Fantastic in April 1963, and for the next decade appearing fairly frequently in the magazines, though he has more and more concentrated on longer forms early work is fairly represented in Anthonology (coll 1985). Working name of US author Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob (1934- ) for all his published work. ![]()
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