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Phthor

Piers Anthony (1975)

SubgenreHigh Fantasy
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingR
Pages (Standard (250-400))
SeriesAton/Piers Anthony's Worlds of Chthon #2
Setting
CSM age18+
Goodreads3.23

Content levels

ViolenceStrong
Sexual contentModerate
LanguageModerate

Synopsis

Arlo is the son of Aton, conqueror and victim of a dreaded Minionette. Arlo has known no world but the cavern-world. When war comes to the caverns he is a confused spectator. Men, women, and other creatures bearing exotic weapons invade. The women fascinate Arlo—they seem disturbingly familiar to him. Well they might. For these beautiful, identical, fiery-haired and smokey-eyed savage warriors are minionettes—figures of terror and dread on all civilized worlds. And they are his kin. Arlo's fate is to battle them and the superintelligence of Chthon at once, to work out a destiny shaped by a god more ancient than mankind—the destiny of the galaxy as well as his own.

Tags

Space OperaScience FantasyPlanetary RomanceUnderground Adventure