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From: mr@hou2h.UUCP (M.RINDSBERG)
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Subject: Re: Piers Anthony
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Date: Thu, 25-Apr-85 15:43:38 EST
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> Does anyone know when "With Hourglass in Hand" by Piers Anthony will be out
> in paperback? (I believe that's the title, or at least close) It's the second
> of his current series 'Incarnations of Immortality' and about someone who
> gets the job of Chronos, keeper of time, etc. etc. The first book was about
> an average Joe in a future world who gets the job of Death and was not bad.
> It would have been great if he hadn't preached for so long about euthanasia.
> This seems to be the only serious SF that Anthony wishes to write (do NOT
> send replies about "BIO OF A SPACE TYRANT" or the Xanth series - I could
> flame about those for a month and a half) If you like Anthony's stuff at
> all, do yourself a favor and read "Macroscope" or the Cluster 'trilogy' (it's
> at four books now, I believe). These blow those punny fantasy potboilers
> right out of the water.

The book has  not come out in paperback yet, but I check every week
at the two local bookstores (WB & BD). I don't know when they should
be coming out.
Also the name of the book is "Bearing an Hourglass"

						Mark