Chthon
by:
Piers Anthony (author)
Chthon was Piers Anthony's first published novel in 1967, written over the course of seven years. He started it when he was in the US Army, so it has a long prison sequence that is reminiscent of that experience, being dark and grim. The author regards this as perhaps the most intricately...
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Chthon was Piers Anthony's first published novel in 1967, written over the course of seven years. He started it when he was in the US Army, so it has a long prison sequence that is reminiscent of that experience, being dark and grim. The author regards this as perhaps the most intricately structured novel the science fantasy genre has seen.Aton's crime was simple. He loved
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Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Berkley
Pages no: 232
Edition language: English
Series: Aton (#1)
An odd book about a jailbreak from an underground alien prison facility, not told in chronological order. Anthony seems to be trying to break as many taboos as possible in the story. Very atypical Anthony.
Superior SF escape-from-nightmarish-prison novel. Chthon, the subterranean prison-world, is quite well realized.
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