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Chaining the Lady (Cluster Book 2) Kindle Edition

by Piers Anthony (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.3 36 ratings

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An alien being is out to save the galaxy in book two of the New York Times–bestselling author’s Cluster series.

Chaining the Lady is the second Cluster book. Melody, a product of Flint and the Andromedan’s mating in Cluster, must save the Milky Way Galaxy and create a place where creatures can transfer without limitations. Melody must survive in worlds unknown and alien to her and she does that where others fail when her aura augments her skills and abilities. The book opens with the discovery that Andromeda, the enemy galaxy of the first novel, has discovered the secret of involuntary hosting: a Kirlian aura that is sufficiently stronger than that of an individual can take possession of that individual. Andromeda has secretly infiltrated the highest levels of government in Sphere Sol and its allies and resurrect its plot to steal the energy of the Milky Way. Melody of Mintaka, a direct descendant of Flint of Outworld and his Andromedan nemesis, has a Kirlian aura of well over two hundred. She is pressed into service to “possess” and interrogate a captured Andromedan transferee. Melody, hosted in the young and beautiful body of Yael of Dragon, must, like her progenitor Flint, find a way to defeat the Andromedan threat and save the galaxy. The mysterious Ancients are present again in the form of their artifacts and sites. The themes of Tarot and of various myths of Sphere Sol (in this case that of Perseus and Andromeda) play a big part this novel. The InterSphere fleet of starships has forms analogous to the Tarot suits of Disks, Cups, Wands, and Swords.

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Piers Anthony is one of the world’s most popular fantasy writers, and a New York Times–bestselling author twenty-one times over. His Xanth novels have been read and loved by millions of readers around the world, and he daily receives letters from his devoted fans. In addition to the Xanth series, Anthony is the author of many other bestselling works. He lives in Inverness, Florida.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00J84KLFS
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy (April 1, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 1, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 6219 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 342 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #521,178 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #4,255 in Space Marine Science Fiction
- #4,671 in Space Opera Science Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #6,634 in Science Fiction Adventure

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Piers Anthony is one of the world's most popular fantasy authors, and a New York Times bestseller twenty-one times over. His Xanth novels have been read and loved by millions of readers around the world, and he daily receives hundreds of letters from his devoted fans.In addition to the Xanth series, Anthony is the author of many other best-selling works. Piers Anthony lives in Inverness, Florida.

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Very enjoyable.

Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2018

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I absolutely loved this book. From the start it captures a sense of mythology that a lot of SciFi tends to miss. It really keeps the characters at the forefront and the action remains interesting.

Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2013

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The hero is very indecisive during most of the book, but all in all it is gripping and as usual easily visualized.

Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2014

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An all-time classic. This book and series gets better every time. Every Sci-fi fan should have this book in their library.

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Brainman60

Readable Space Adventure

Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2011

Another enjoyable comic book tale.
This time the hero seems to be a piece of musical farm machinery. It's a thousand years after the last book and those nasty Andromedans are back trying to steal all the energy from the Milky way.
In part one our heroine takes over the body of a voluptuous young female human and by cunning use of tarot cards (again) and her magnificent cleavage, (no really), she uncovers the plot and rallies the troops.
In part two the battle unfolds and there are strange space battles. All very clever and interesting.
Finally our heroine transfers to Andromeda and saves the day with a clever and quite tidy finale.
A clever and very readable classic space adventure full of strange if often implausible aliens.

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Corina M

My favorite author for 20+ yrs

Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2017

I started reading Piers around '94 with Xanth novels. Now I've come to enjoy his sci-fi work probably more than the fantasy! After writing this I'll be lost immediately in the 3rd book of this series!

Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2007

Descendant still up again Andromedans, this time with Kirlian possession.

Kirlian agents of the enemy have worked up how to basically do a fair bit of mind control and bodysnatching via Kirlian transfer. To combat this the humans have set Melody of Mintaka to work, a woman with a massive Kirlian aura rating who is able in turn to take over those infiltrators.

Throw in some space fleets, and tarot, and you have a reasonably entertaining book.

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SciFiFan

great book, great author

Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2014

Fast shipping, great book, great author.

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Charles Hicks

Too many errors

Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2017

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The story is ok but the entire book has so many misspelled words, double words, just plain wrong words and punctuation errors it was next to impossible to read.

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Jonathan Michael Reiter

Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada on March 24, 2018

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I've read this before and it's good! Looking forward to reading it again for the first time since the Late Seventies! Thanks, Folks!

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