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  Short Fiction Collected

  Piers Anthony

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  Title Page

  About Piers Anthony

  Bibliography: Novels

  Bibliography: Serials

  Bibliography: Chapbooks

  Bibliography: Collections

  Bibliography: Omnibus

  Bibliography: Nonfiction

  Short Fiction Bibliography: chronological

  Short Fiction Bibliography: alphabetical

  Fiction Series

  1963

  Possible to Rue

  Quinquepedalian

  1964

  Sheol

  Encounter

  1965

  Phog

  1966

  Mandroid

  The Message

  The Ghost Galaxies

  1967

  Within the Cloud

  In the Jaws of Danger

  Prostho Plus

  Beak by Beak

  1968

  The Alien Rulers

  Sos the Rope (First of Three Parts)

  Sos the Rope (Second of Three Parts)

  Sos the Rope (Conclusion)

  Getting Through University

  1969

  The Life of the Stripe

  None But I

  Hasan (First of Two Parts)

  1970

  Hasan (Second of Two Parts)

  The Whole Truth

  The Bridge

  Equals Four

  Orn (First of Two Parts)

  Orn (Second of Two Parts)

  Wood You?

  Monarch

  Small Mouth, Bad Taste

  1972

  In the Barn

  Hard Sell

  Black Baby

  Hurdle

  1974

  Ki

  1981

  On the Uses of Torture

  1982

  To the Death

  Deadline

  Transmogrification

  1985

  The Toaster

  Gone to the Dogs

  1986

  Plague of Allos

  1987

  Life

  1988

  Kylo

  Soft Like a Woman

  1991

  Cloister

  1992

  Love 40

  Alien Plot

  Nonent

  20 Years

  December Dates

  Ship of Mustard

  Imp to Nymph

  E van S

  Vignettes

  Hearts

  Revise and Invent

  Baby

  1993

  A Picture of Jesus

  1994

  Tortoise Shell

  1995

  Bluebeard

  2008

  The Courting

  2009

  Knave

  2010

  Juliet Quartet

  Serial

  Lost Things

  2011

  Medusa

  Rat Bait

  2012

  Living Doll

  2013

  Pandora Park

  2014

  Awares

  Flytrap

  Odd Exam

  Shepherd

  To Be a Woman

  Descant

  Cartaphilus

  Privy

  Adult Conspiracy

  Do Not Remove This Tag

  Mountain Spirit

  2015

  Lava

  Hello Hotel

  2016

  Hairpower

  Experiment

  Discovery

  Mission

  Dull Street Incident

  Forbidden Fruit

  Service Goat

  Hair Suite

  2019

  Hair Peace

  Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob was born on August 6, 1934 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, U.K. His parents, Alfred and Norma Jacob, were Quaker pacifists studying at Oxford University who interrupted their studies in 1936 to undertake relief work on behalf of the Quakers during the Spanish Civil War, establishing a food kitchen for children in Barcelona. Piers and his sister were left in England in the care of their maternal grandparents and a nanny. Alfred Jacob, although a British citizen, had been born in America near Philadelphia, and in 1940, after being forced out of Spain and with the situation in Britain deteriorating, the family sailed to the United States. In 1941 the family settled in a rustic “back to the land” utopian community near Winhall, Vermont, where a young Piers made the acquaintance of radical author Scott Nearing. Both parents resumed their academic studies, and Alfred eventually became a professor of Romance languages, teaching at a number of colleges in the Philadelphia area.

  Piers Anthony was moved around to a number of schools, eventually enrolling in Goddard College in Vermont where he graduated in 1956.

  Anthony met his future wife, Carol Marble, while both were attending college. They were married in 1956, the same year he graduated from Goddard College, and he worked in a series of odd jobs. In 1957, Anthony decided to join the United States Army, as his wife was now pregnant, and they needed both medical coverage and a steady source of income. During his two-year enlistment, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1958 and became an editor and cartoonist for his battalion’s newspaper.

  After completing military service, he briefly taught school at Admiral Farragut Academy in St. Petersburg, Florida before deciding to try to become a full-time writer.

  Anthony and his wife made a deal: if he could sell a piece of writing within one year, she would continue to work to support him. But if he could not sell anything in that year, then he would forever give up his dream of being a writer. At the end of the year, he managed to get a short story published.

  On multiple occasions Anthony has moved from one publisher to another (taking a profitable hit series with him) when he says he felt the editors were unduly tampering with his work. He has sued publishers for accounting malfeasance and won judgments in his favor. Anthony maintains an Internet Publishers Survey in the interest of helping aspiring writers. For this service, he won the 2003 “Friend of EPIC” award for service to the electronic publishing community. His website won the Special Recognition for Service to Writers award from Preditors and Editors, an author’s guide to publishers and writing services.

  Anthony’s popular novel series Xanth has been optioned for movies. It inspired the DOS video game Companions of Xanth, by Legend Entertainment. The same series also spawned the board game Xanth by Mayfair Games.

  Anthony and his first wife, Carol Ann Marble Jacob, had two daughters, Penelope “Penny” Carolyn and Cheryl. Penny died in 2009, due to complications from skin cancer. Carol Ann died at home on 3 October 2019 due to what is believed to have been heart related complications due to a 15-year-long battle with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP).

  On 22 April 2020, he married MaryLee Boyance.

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  NOVELS

  Chthon (1967)

  Omnivore (1968)

  Sos the Rope (1968)

  The Ring (1968)

  Macroscope (1969)

  The E.S.P. Worm (1970)

  Orn (1971)

  Var the Stick (1972)

  Race Against Time (1973)

  Kiai! (1974)

  Mistress of Death (1974)

  The Bamboo Bloodbath (1974)

  Rings of Ice (1974)

  Triple Detente (1974)

  Neq the Sword (1975)

  Ninja’s Revenge (1975)

  Phthor (1975)

  Amazon Slaughter (1976)

  But What of Earth? (1976)

  OX (1976)

  Steppe (1976)

  A Spell for Chameleon (1977)

  Cluster (1977)

  Hasan (1977)

  Vicinity Cluster (1977)

  Chaining the Lady (1978)

  Kirlian Quest (1978)

  Castle Roogna (1979)

  God of Tarot (1979)

  Pretender (1979)

  The Source of Magic (1979)

  Faith of Tarot (1980)

  Split Infinity (1980)

  Thousandstar (1980)

  Vision of Tarot (1980)

  Blue Adept (1981)

  Centaur Aisle (1982)

  Mute (1981)

  Juxtaposition (1982)

  Ogre, Ogre (1982)

  Viscous Circle (1982)

  Dragon on a Pedestal (1983)

  Night Mare (1983)

  On a Pale Horse (1983)

  Refugee (1983)

  Bearing an Hourglass (1984)

  Mercenary (1984)

  Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yarn (1985)

  Executive (1985)

  Politician (1985)

  With a Tangled Skein (1985)

  Ghost (1986)

  Golem in the Gears (1986)

  Shade of the Tree (1986)

  Statesman (1986)

  Wielding a Red Sword (1986)

  Being a Green Mother (1987)

  Dragon’s Gold (1987)

  Out of Phaze (1987)

  Vale of the Vole (1987)

  For Love of Evil (1988)

  Heaven Cent (1988)<
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  Robot Adept (1988)

  Serpent’s Silver (1988)

  But What of Earth? (text restored)

  (1989)

  Man from Mundania (1989)

  Pornucopia (1989)

  Through the Ice (1989)

  Total Recall (1989)

  Unicorn Point (1989)

  And Eternity (1990)

  Balook (1990)

  Chimaera’s Copper (1990)

  Dead Morn (1990)

  Firefly (1990)

  Hard Sell (1990)

  Isle of View (1990)

  Orc’s Opal (1990)

  Phaze Doubt (1990)

  Mercycle (1991)

  Tatham Mound (1991)

  Virtual Mode (1991)

  Question Quest (1991)

  The Caterpillar’s Question (1992)

  The Color of Her Panties (1992)

  Fractal Mode (1992)

  Mouvar’s Magic (1992)

  Demons Don’t Dream (1993)

  Harpy Thyme (1993)

  If I Pay Thee Not in Gold (1993)

  Isle of Woman (1993)

  Killobyte (1993)

  Chaos Mode (1994)

  Geis of the Gargoyle (1994)

  Shame of Man (1994)

  Roc and a Hard Place (1995)

  Earth (1996)

  Yon Ill Wind (1996)

  The Willing Spirit (1996)

  Volk (1996)

  Faun & Games (1997)

  Hope of Earth (1997)

  Quest for the Fallen Star (1998)

  Spider Legs (1998)

  Zombie Lover (1998)

  Dream a Little Dream (1999)

  Muse of Art (1999)

  Realty Check (1999)

  Xone of Contention (1999)

  The Dastard (2000)

  The Gutbucket Quest (2000)

  The Secret of Spring (2000)

  Curse of the Ninja (2001)

  DoOon Mode (2001)

  Swell Foop (2001)

  The Iron Maiden (2002)

  Up in a Heaval (2002)

  Cube Route (2003)

  Key to Havoc (2003)

  Key to Chroma (2003)

  The Magic Fart (2003)

  Currant Events (2004)

  Key to Destiny (2004)

  Pet Peeve (2005)

  Stork Naked (2006)

  Air Apparent (2007)

  Key to Liberty (2007)

  Tortoise Reform (2007)

  Under a Velvet Cloak (2007)

  Key to Survival (2008)

  Two to the Fifth (2008)

  Jumper Cable (2009)

  Climate of Change (2010)

  Knot Gneiss (2010)

  Aladdin Relighted (2011)

  Aladdin Sins Bad (2011)

  The Sopaths (2011)

  Well-Tempered Clavicle (2011)

  A Spell for Chameleon: The Parallel Edition . . . Simplified (2012)

  Aladdin and the Flying Dutchman (2012)

  Luck of the Draw (2012)

  Aliena (2013)

  Amoeba (2013)

  Beetle Juice (2013)

  Board Stiff (2013)

  Dolfin Tayle (2013)

  Dragon Assassin (2013)

  Eroma (2013)

  Esrever Doom (2013)

  Aliena Too (2014)

  Five Portraits (2014)

  Jack and the Giants (2014)

  WereWoman (2014)

  Lavabull (2015)

  Isis Orb (2016)

  The Worm Returns (2016)

  Ghost Writer in the Sky (2017)

  The Journey (2017)

  Virtue Inverted (2017)

  Amazon Expedient (2018)

  Fire Sail (2019)

  Magenta Salvation (2019)

  Jest Right (2020)

  Skeleton Key (2021)

  A Tryst of Fate (2021)

  Six Crystal Princesses (2022)

  Apoca Lips (2023)

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  SERIALS

  Sos the Rope, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July-September 1968

  Hasan, Fantastic, December 1969-February 1970

  Orn, Amazing Science Fiction, July-September 1970

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  CHAPBOOKS

  Pandora Park (2013)

  Awares (2014)

  Flytrap (2014)

  Odd Exam (2014)

  Shepherd (2014)

  To Be a Woman (2014)

  Hair Power (2016)

  Service Goat (2016)

  Hair Suite (2016)

  Hair Peace (2019)

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  COLLECTIONS

  Anthonology (1985)

  Alien Plot (1992)

  Relationships (2006)

  Relationships I (2007)

  Relationships II (2008)

  Relationships III (2009)

  Relationships 4 (2010)

  Relationships V (2012)

  Relationships 6 (2018)

  Relationships 7 (2019)

  Relationships 8 (2020)

  Cautionary Tales (2014)

  The Metal Maiden Collection (2014)

  Writer’s Retweet (2016)

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  OMNIBUS

  Battle Circle (1978)

  The Magic of Xanth (1981)

  Double Exposure (1982)

  Apprentice Adept (1983)

  Magic of Xanth (boxed set) (1983)

  Bio of a Space Tyrant: Refugee, Mercenary, Politician, Executive (1986)

  More Magic of Xanth (boxed set) (1986)

  Of Man and Manta (1986)

  Tarot (1987)

  Spellbound Xanth: Dragon on a Pedestal, Crewel Lye, Golemin the Gears (1989)

  Across the Frames (1992)

  Final Magic (1992)

  Three Complete Novels (1994)

  Three Complete Xanth Novels (1994)

  The Continuing Xanth Saga (1997)

  Amazon Slaughter and Curse of the Ninja (2001)

  The Bamboo Bloodbath and Ninja’s Revenge (2001)

  Kiai! and Mistress of Death (2001)

  The Quest for Magic (2002)

  Xanth by Two (2010)

  The Aladdin Trilogy (2012)

  Incarnations of Immortality (2013)

  The Pornucopia Compendium (2015)

  The Cluster Series (2018)

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  NONFICTION

  Piers Anthony’s Visual Guide to Xanth (1989)

  Alfred (2007)

  SHORT FICTION BIBLIOGRAPHY

  CHRONOLOGICAL

  1963

  Possible to Rue, Fantastic Stories of Imagination, April 1963

  Quinquepedalian, Amazing Stories, November 1963

  1964

  Sheol, Analog Science Fact -> Science Fiction, September 1964

  Encounter, Fantastic Stories of Imagination, October 1964

  1965

  Phog, Fantastic Stories of Imagination, June 1965

  1966

  Mandroid, If, June 1966

  The Message, Analog Science Fiction -> Science Fact, July 1966

  The Ghost Galaxies, If, September 1966

  1967

  Within the Cloud, Galaxy Science Fiction, April 1967

  In the Jaws of Danger, If, November 1967

  Prostho Plus, Analog Science Fiction -> Science Fact, November 1967

  Beak by Beak, Analog Science Fiction -> Science Fact, December 1967

  1968

  The Alien Rulers, Analog Science Fiction -> Science Fact, March 1968

  Sos the Rope (First of Three Parts), The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1968

  Sos the Rope (Second of Three Parts), The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1968

  Sos the Rope (Conclusion), The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 1968

  Getting Through University, If, August 1968

  1969

  The Life of the Stripe, Fantastic, February 1969

  None but I, If, October 1969

  Hasan (First of Two Parts), Fantastic, December 1969

  1970

  Hasan (Second of Two Parts), Fantastic, February 1970

  The Whole Truth, Nova 1, February 1970

  The Bridge, Worlds of Tomorrow, June 1970

  Equals Four, If, July/August, July 1970

  Orn (First of Two Parts), Amazing Stories, July 1970

  Orn (Second of Two Parts), Amazing Stories, September 1970

  Wood You?, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1970

  Monarch, If, November/December, November 1970

  Small Mouth, Bad Taste, Science Against Man, December 1972

  1972

  In the Barn, Again, Dangerous Visions, March 1972

  Hard Sell, Worlds of If, July/August, July 1972

  Up Schist Crick, Generation: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction, July 1972

  Black Baby, Worlds of If, September/October, September 1972

  Hurdle, Worlds of If, November/December, November 1972

  1974

  Ouch!, Strange Universe, 1974

  Ki, Vertex, June 1974

  1981

  On the Uses of Torture, The Berkley Showcase: Vol. 3, January 1981

  1982