One of the features of the Xanth novels is Anthony’s love and reliance on puns, which often find their way into other works. Even after the advent of the popularity of the Xanth series, Anthony continued to switch back and forth between the genres. Anthony wrote both science fiction and fantasy, frequently blurring the lines between the two forms and his first novel, Chthon was science fiction, while his second was Sos the Rope, a post-apocalyptic fantasy. He became a US citizen when he was 24 years old after coming to the US for his education and in 1963, he published his first short story, “Possible to Rue” in the April 1963 issue of Fantastic. In 1980, he had just published Split Infinity, the first novel in his Apprentice Adept series.Īnthony was born in the United Kingdom with the name Piers Anthony Dilligham Jacobs.
His Battle Circle trilogy had appeared between 19 and the Chthon duology was published in 19.
Castle Roogna followed it in 1978 and The Source of Magic appeared in 1979, and that was all: a trilogy.Īnthony had published numerous successful series up to that point, including the Omnivore/Orn/OX series between 19, the first four volumes of the Cluster series and the Tarot trilogy. A Spell for Chameleon had appeared in 1977 and been awarded the British Fantasy Award and nominated for the Balrog Award. While Piers Anthony may currently be best known for his series of Xanth novels, in 1980, when he was presented with the Phoenix Award, the series was just getting started. The 1980 award was presented on August 23 at DeepSouthCon 18/ASFICon in Atlanta, Georgia, which was chaired by Cliff Biggers. The first Rebel Award was presented to Richard C. DeepSouthCon has presented the Phoenix Award annually since 1970.
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