As I was re-reading this series, I started finding some questionable quotes from them, of which these are some choice selections: When I was 13, I realized that most of Piers’ books had a lot of sex in them (that may have been a reason I liked them as much as I did) what I didn’t realize was how much sexism they contained.
I read them again in my late 20s and thought they held up pretty well, so when I got on a bit of a nostalgia kick recently, I thought I’d give these another go, just to see if they were still pretty good. The guy was pretty much all I read, from the Xanth series to the Incarnations of Immortality series, and even the Battle Circle and Bio of a Space Tyrant series, but my favorite of his books from that time would have to be the Apprentice Adept series. When I was 13, I read a lot of Piers Anthony, and when I say “a lot,” I mean a lot. Stile was somehow supposed to take over the job of saving them or go down to total destruction with all he loved, he had to act and act quickly-with no idea of what he was supposed to do. The two worlds were out of balance and heading for disaster. The infallible Oracle was suddenly involved in the conspiracy against him.
After that, he was ready to face the real problems! To survive, Stile had to master magic, fight a dragon, win the friendship of a lady unicorn, locate his enemy among the paranoid Adepts, and return out of Phaze to win the Great Games on Proton.
There he found he was the double of the sorcerer, the Blue Adept, who had been mysteriously murdered. On Proton, a world of future science, his murder was averted only by the help of a lovely robot, who sent him through an invisible "curtain" to Phaze, an alternate world ruled by magic. Stile had problems-two whole worlds of problems, in fact. In this brilliantly satisfying conclusion to the epic adventure begun in Split Infinity and continued in Blue Adept, Piers Anthony again proves himself a consummate master of both science fiction and fantasy.
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