Well, some of it is. Firefly comes to mind. The sexual stuff in the in Incarnation and Xanth serieses (serii?) is more tactful, though slightly creepy at times if you think too hard about it. Having never read his other books, I can’t speak for them. Of course, if Topaz didn’t like the books she did read, there’s not much reason for her to read any more of them, sex or no sex.
I quit the first book in that series after the “Joe Hill” references started. I mean for crying out loud…
Oh the sex doesn’t bother me its just his writing style I guess. Sometimes I get books from the library I read maybe the first chapter and put it down cuz I don’t get it or something… I’ve read lots of literature with varying degrees of sexuality… everything from prudish to explicit so its not that. Though the way I was typing up in my last post it probably looked like that is what I didn’t like. Lately the books I choose don’t have much sex in them though at one time I did read a lot of that stuff. Like maybe a couple years ago. I also went through a romance novel phase when I was 12 and ended up reading lots of stuff like that…
I sometimes wonder about the nature of Mr. Anthony’s relationship with his daughters…
:sits down in booth:
Forgive me Father, it has been… Um… 12 years since I’ve read one of his books.
In the immortality series, I read the first one. Yawn. Read the second, found it dull. Started on the third, and found it even worse, so I gave up. I did read the original trilogy of Xanth stories, but realised that later volumes were nothing more than Pun-fests with a recycled, threadbare plot to hang them from.
What is it with aging SF writers? Heinlein also slipped into that mode later in life. Granted it was incest rather than pedophila, but still.
Some of you might find the Rinkworks “Book-A-Minute” take on Anthony amusing:
http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/anthony.shtml (The Collected works of Piers Anthony)
http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/anthony.xanth.shtml (Xanth series)
When it is adolescents, it is referred to as Hebophillia. The Pedophilic book that Piers Anthony wrote is called ‘Under A Velvet Cloak’. It was released in 2011 and is Book 8 in the Incarnations Of Immortality series. There was two Instances of Pedophilia themes in that book (Which ruined the over all story for me) and it was a secondary character whom Kerena travels with and knowing his ‘penchant for boys aged 5 to 8 years old’ - shes was more than okay with it, in fact she was supportive (I’ve blocked out the characters name already)and even let him hold her child:smack:
The other was a re-telling of Morley’s deepest darkest secret, that as a ten year old he had intercourse with an adult.
My Logic is: The only people who celebrate or sympathize with Pedophiles ARE pedophiles (Or maybe I’m just angry about the fact that pedophilia exists and so am completely biased).
-But yeah, it was more disturbing than ‘And Eternity’ was with its Hebophilia and so has ruined both the story and my perception of the Author.
I wouldn’t worry about it - after seventeen years, all the characters are adult now.
Regards,
Shodan
Moving this to Cafe Society
**Note this is a 17 year old zombie. **
So, too old to be a love interest in a Piers Anthony book.
Apparently.
I know this is an old thread, but it’s as good a place as any to complain about the moment when Piers Anthony moved from “ok” to “:eek: backing away slowly.”
It was in the authors’ notes of a novel he co-wrote with I think Mercedes Lackey. The gist was a girl from a nation where all the women have magical powers, but men don’t and so are enslaved by the women, has to go on a quest to fetch the McGuffin of Infinite Power ™ so she can beat the queen in a magical duel because reasons. So she mounts an expedition with the demon who’s trying to seduce her because she owes him money and a whole boatload of male slave soldiers and attendants. In order to keep the men happy, there are also some foreign whores, because foreign women don’t gain magical powers when they enter this country even though the protagonist keeps her powers all the way across Fantasyland. The only whore who gets a name is Pattee, who has dog paws instead of hands and feet and can only communicate with animal noises.
In the author’s notes, in between rambling on about his kidney stones and whatever, he mentions that a girl who was contemplating suicide wrote to him and sent him her most treasured possession, a gold cross. Instead of using his author powers to speak out about suicide outreach or even wondering what happened to the girl and if she’s all right, he jumps right to how the cross is in a style called “pattee,” which means “pawed,” and so wasn’t that just the perfect name for this dog-pawed whore who can’t even talk.
Blechhh!
I did some googling, and the stuff you are mentioning is from If I Pay Thee Not in Gold by Anthony and Lackey (1993). The suicidal girl part is much as you remember it, but there is no mention of kidney stones. The relevant part is:
[QUOTE=Piers Anthony]
This particular notion had a considerable history. It started in 1979, as an offshoot of my earlier research in the Arabian Nights Tales for another novel. I’m a Nights fan; I have several multi-volume editions. In one of those tales a highborn woman incurred a debt, and the man to whom she owed it suggested that there were ways other than monetary to expiate it. She caught his meaning perfectly, and declared-ah, yes, I see you understand. Thus the title and heroine of this novel. The project had a thirteen-year history as I considered doing it for another publisher. But by the time I had figured out how to organize it, my relations with that publisher had soured, and I had gotten caught up in so many projects that I was writing and selling more than half a million words of fiction a year and still barely keeping up. Thus the compromise, and this is the result.
Naturally, as I reviewed it, fate stepped in. My belief in the supernatural is nonexistent; I write fantasy, I don’t believe it. This may be why supernatural occurrences keep pestering me. In this case, just as I was reviewing the scene
in which Xylina contemplates suicide, I received a letter from a young woman who was doing the same. Her name was Julie, and she had a cross that she wore continuously, day and night, her most precious possession. She enclosed that cross, and it sits by my computer as I type this. By that token I knew that she was near the end. Yes, I’m doing my best to persuade her to take back her cross, but the issue is undecided at the time of this writing. I researched to ascertain what type it is, and concluded that it is of the general description known as pattée: that is, widening in the arms, in the manner of paws. Pattée means paw-like. And so I added a character in honor of that cross-a character who did not die. I hope. Further research satisfied me that the cross is actually of another description, clechée, meaning like an ancient key, but I decided to let Pattée the character be. There are limits.
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The book is only a snippet view on google books, but it provided me enough words to go a google search. I won’t link to the site that I found it, but if you look for “she had a cross that she wore continuously” in quotes, it will be the only hit.
There have been various threads on this over the years. I like his writing and I enjoy some of the puns from the Xanth series. But even I have to admit that “Letters to Jenny” creeped me out quite a bit. I write it off to more something in the autism spectrum (Asperger’s spring to mind) but there is something there.
I know this is a very old post. But for anyone who cares, Andrew Neiderman is the author writing V.C. Andrews books now.
That’s the one. Thanks, that was starting to drive me crazy. The kidney stone business was either in another book or else I hallucinated it. 
What, no mention that one of his books (Castle Roogna, IIRC) featured a zombie romance?
Eh, in any event, I think I’m going to Turn Undead on this zombie.