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| - Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob (born August 6, 1934 in Oxford, England is an English American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony. He is most famous for his set in the fictional realm of Xanth. Many of his books have appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list. He has claimed that one of his greatest achievements has been to publish a book for every letter of the alphabet, from Anthonology to Zombie Lover.
- Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob (born August 6, 1934) is a British born author who writes under the name Piers Anthony. He moved to the United States with his family when he was four-years old and became an American citizen in 1958 while he was serving in the U.S. Army. Anthony writes novels in the science fiction and fantasy genres.He is best known for his series of books set in the imaginary realm of Xanth.
- Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob (born August 6, 1934 in Oxford, England) is an American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony. He is most famous for his long-running series set in the fictional realm of Xanth. Many of his books have appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list. He is one of the most prolific science fiction/fantasy authors of all time. He has claimed that one of his greatest achievements has been to publish a book for every letter of the alphabet, from Anthonology to Zombie Lover.
- One of the most prolific fantasy writers ever. He has a pattern of starting a new series with a fresh innovative idea, and then never stopping it unless the publisher begs him to. Thus, he is one of the most prolific fantasy writers without writing many Doorstoppers. Piers Anthony has written several series, including: He's also written many stand alone novels, and collaborations. His story "In the Barn" was included in Harlan Ellison's anthology Again, Dangerous Visions.
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| - Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob (born August 6, 1934 in Oxford, England is an English American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony. He is most famous for his set in the fictional realm of Xanth. Many of his books have appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list. He has claimed that one of his greatest achievements has been to publish a book for every letter of the alphabet, from Anthonology to Zombie Lover.
- Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob (born August 6, 1934 in Oxford, England) is an American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony. He is most famous for his long-running series set in the fictional realm of Xanth. Many of his books have appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list. He is one of the most prolific science fiction/fantasy authors of all time. He has claimed that one of his greatest achievements has been to publish a book for every letter of the alphabet, from Anthonology to Zombie Lover. Anthony's family emigrated to the United States from Britain when he was four. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in his twenties. After completing a two year stint in military service, he briefly taught public school before becoming a fulltime writer. Anthony currently lives with his wife on a tree farm which he owns in Florida. He is a vegetarian, an agnostic, a proud liberal, a workaholic, and dislikes travel (hence his rarity at conventions). He and his wife have two daughters and one grandchild. Anthony was blacklisted at one time, and thus feels that it is his duty to help aspiring writers circumvent traditional publishing houses and their stranglehold on the industry. On multiple occasions he has moved from one publisher to another (taking a profitable hit series with him), when he felt the editors were unduly tampering with his work. He has even sued publishers for accounting malfeasance and won judgments in his favor. He also 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. For his HiPiers website, he won the Special Recognition for Service to Writers award from Preditors and Editors, an author's guide to publishers and writing services. Anthony invested as an angel investor in Xlibris at one point, and is now a co-owner along with Random House. Many of his popular novels have been optioned for movies. His popular series, Xanth, has a video game, titled "Companions of Xanth" by Legend Entertainment. It is made for PCs and on CD-ROM, although it is DOS-based. There is also a board game called Xanth by Mayfair Games. Piers Anthony's novels usually end with a chapter-long Author's Note, in which he talks about himself, his life, and his experiences as they related to the process of writing the novel. He often discusses correspondence with readers and any real-world issues that influenced the novel.
- Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob (born August 6, 1934) is a British born author who writes under the name Piers Anthony. He moved to the United States with his family when he was four-years old and became an American citizen in 1958 while he was serving in the U.S. Army. Anthony writes novels in the science fiction and fantasy genres.He is best known for his series of books set in the imaginary realm of Xanth.
- One of the most prolific fantasy writers ever. He has a pattern of starting a new series with a fresh innovative idea, and then never stopping it unless the publisher begs him to. Thus, he is one of the most prolific fantasy writers without writing many Doorstoppers. Piers Anthony has written several series, including:
* Xanth, mostly set in a world of magic and puns about the size and shape of Florida (both the world and the puns).
* Incarnations of Immortality, where being an Anthropomorphic Personification is just a job.
* The Apprentice Adept series, about two mirror worlds; one hi-tech, one magical.
* The Bio of a Space Tyrant, about the titular tyrant's rise from refugee to supreme power in a Sci-Fi Counterpart Culture based on Earth in The Eighties.
* The Cluster series, where all Faster-Than-Light Travel is done through possessing aliens.
* The Mode series, which is about characters traveling across dimensions--each of which has fundamentally different rules--on foot. (Literally, every ten meters they are in a new dimension they could not see before, stepping across the boundary is very dangerous, and they'd have to do this for hundreds or thousands of dimensions before reaching an (hopefully) stable "anchor" dimension).
* The Battle Circle trilogy; about the conflicts between a heavily ritualized warrior culture and a hidden technocratic culture in a post-apocalyptic Earth.
* The Jason Striker series, co-authored with Roberto Fuentes, which had a Fair for Its Day depiction of martial arts as a mix between a highly technical sport and mystical mumbo-jumbo. He's also written many stand alone novels, and collaborations. His story "In the Barn" was included in Harlan Ellison's anthology Again, Dangerous Visions.
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