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Mute

Piers Anthony (1981)

SubgenreHigh Fantasy
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingR
Pages (Standard (250-400))
Setting
CSM age16+
Goodreads3.68

Content levels

ViolenceStrong
Sexual contentModerate
LanguageMild

Heroine archetypes

Spy / OperativeFemme Fatale

Protagonist archetypes

Reluctant HeroFound Family Crew

Synopsis

Knot, mutant-bred and exiled from mankind to serve on an alien world, has personal reasons for opposing the Galactic Empire's omnipotent Coordinating Computer. But Finesse, a sensuous, seductive imperial agent--added by Hermine, a slyly psychic weasel, and Mit, a telepathic hermit crab--lures Knot into serving the Computer. Their perilous odyssey takes them across time and space to a forbidding world ruled by the renegade Piebald, who has harnessed the fearsome extrasensory forces of his lobotomized minions...has gained mastery over the Computer...and who now threatens the very future of humanity.

Tags

Science FantasySpace OperaDystopianPsychic Powers