Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!@RUTGERS.ARPA:Tallan.PA@Xerox.ARPA From: @RUTGERS.ARPA:Tallan.PA@Xerox.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Piers Anthony Message-ID: <772@topaz.ARPA> Date: Sun, 24-Feb-85 14:29:25 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.772 Posted: Sun Feb 24 14:29:25 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 27-Feb-85 04:17:25 EST Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 20 From: Michael Tallan I have to add one of my favorite books by Piers Anthony to the ones that have been mentioned. "Thousandstar" was one of the first of his that I read and now, after about a dozen more, still ranks at the top of the list (along with the Apprentice Adept series, which is also great). Without my copy of the book at hand I cannot describe it with justice, but suffice it to say that it concerns a person whose mind is transported to the body of an alien for the purposes of a quest. The alien's mind is still there and the conversations the two have as they try to understand each other's culture are very well done. They must compete with other such pairs on the same quest and along the way discover that individual friendships can overcome racial fears. What makes the book so enjoyable is the inventiveness with which Anthony creates situations for the characters to get in and out of, the descriptions of some really strange alien physiologies, and the ways in which the main pair and several others interrelate. The whole book is a joy and I recommend it. -- Michael Tallan