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Cluster Kindle Edition

by Piers Anthony (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
First in the sci-fi series “packed with exotic beings, ancient secrets, and futuristic worlds” from the New York Times–bestselling author (The Portalist).

As Cluster opens, the alien envoy Pnotl of Sphere Knyfh seeks help from Sphere Sol in a shared galactic‑level crisis: Galaxy Andromeda has discovered the secret of energy transfer and intends to use it to steal the basic energy of the Milky Way Galaxy. Knyfh offers the secret of aura transfer on the understanding that Sphere Sol will spread the technology to help create a galactic coalition to find and defeat agents of Andromeda. Sol's highest‑Kirlian individual is Flint, a green‑skinned native of Outworld, who has a Kirlian aura of two hundred, an eidetic memory (useful for memorizing the complex equations of Kirlian transfer that he will need to communicate to other spheres). He has extraordinary intelligence and is highly adaptable. His mission is complicated, however, by the fact that he is pursued everywhere by a very high Kirlian female Andromedan agent and, somehow, the Andromedans are able to detect and trace Kirlian transfers. Flint embarks upon several missions to bring transfer technology to neighboring spheres, inhabiting various alien forms. His efforts are successful despite attacks and sabotage by the Andromedan agent. Through the conflict, however, the mutual attraction of their two vastly superior auras begins to undermine their individual loyalty to their own Spheres. Flint and a group of other entities recover the information that will allow them to detect and trace transfers, and a member of the group is revealed as the Andromedan agent. One result is the catastrophic destruction of the local habitat. Flint and his nemesis are transferred into alien Mintakan bodies to survive. Choosing to leave things with parity between their two galaxies, Flint and the Andromedan mate and remain together until their auras fade (which happens rapidly, since their physical bodies have been destroyed).
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    Cluster
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  5. Publication date
    April 1, 2014
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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 ‏ : ‎ B00J84KMN4
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy (April 1, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 1, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 7.8 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
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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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  • E. Hermann
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic series - well worth the price!
    Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2010
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    This is a fantastic first book in a series from what I consider the golden age of Piers Anthony. As one of the other reviewers said, there are some typos, but not nearly enough to make it unreadable. On average I noticed maybe one typo every 1 to 2 pages (6" Kindle pages). I have read many of Piers Anthony's early works in paperback and I don't recall any that didn't have a few typos. Actually I was quite pleased to see Piers' use of overstriking lines over letters and symbols in the aliens names and language to come across perfectly in the Kindle version of this book. You can get a good idea if you'll like it if you read the free sample which is two chapters. The real twists and turns take place much later though.
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  • Berry Cobbler
    4.0 out of 5 stars Never thought I would miss FTL
    Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2014
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    Be careful what you ask your pals to recommend in the way of authors. Never read much Piers A. So, when another Anthony I know suggested him, and I was fresh out of ideas, I did. The book is interesting conceptually, and probably if I had not been reading a ton of interspecies war stuff already, I might be more enthusiastic. I read this and the following book, but I'm stopping there cuz I find the whole war between galaxies for energy annoying. Just as I find the whole Middle East conflict here on Earth annoying. So, I'm done. I may head back in the direction of Jane Austen.
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  • Ed
    3.0 out of 5 stars Great book, if you can deal with poor proofreading.
    Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2011
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    I had this series when I was a teen. I decided to purchase it for the Kindle so I could relive the magic of this series, Anthony has a real talent for creating believable but truly alien aliens. The story itself is fantastic, but I have to take away points for the total lack of proofreading in the text. It is very distracting to run across spelling and syntax errors in EVERY page. Hopefully this will end up being re-submitted to Kindle store in the future with the errors fixed. Sadly until then, I am not purchasing the rest of the series. of course Your Milage May Vary.
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  • Daniel
    4.0 out of 5 stars LOVED IT!
    Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2014
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    An absolute pleasure to read. Unlike most sci-fi the story develops through alien thought, emotion, and culture from inside well constructed depictions of their minds. Ever wondered what it's like to fully BE an alien? Read this and find out - multiple times!
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  • Kubitwo
    4.0 out of 5 stars Cluster is clqassic!
    Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2014
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    This one of the first series I read, and I still love it, nearly 40 years later. Never gets old.
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  • Amazon Customer
    2.0 out of 5 stars ehh
    Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2011
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    ok first off I love piers anthony but this book was ok at best kinda dragged on it was a time waster which is why i got it but there are better books out there
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  • E. S. Anderson
    1.0 out of 5 stars Don't read if you even remotely respect women
    Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2020
    Piers Anthony is such a disgusting misogynist that even though he wrote an intelligent female character that is more than a match for his hero, he had said hero rape her at least twice before getting them together.
    If the world-building and concept of the characters being able to 'transfer' into other alien host bodies and experience their cultures wasn't so fascinating, I'd have tossed this book after the third chapter.
    It's mystifying to me that Anthony is able to write with such interest in and compassion for alien species and societies but persists in treating women (as well as alien females) as second-class, muddle-headed sluts who are all 'asking for it' and must 'like it, at least somewhat' when they're raped.
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  • Miche
    4.0 out of 5 stars Classic
    Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2012
    This edition of this book gets four of five stars. I read this as a teen, it was in my grandmother's bookcase. Now, as then, I was transported to a different reality. It, and those that follow, are stories that strike true. I was very glad to see them come to digital because my old copies, inheirited from my grand parent, are fragile. Flint and his decendents are welcome old friends.

    My one quibble - I wish someone with a fresh eye had proofed these. There are errors, mostly what look to be typos.

    Mr. Anthony, I hope you can update these with a corrected version. And thank you for making them available to another generation.
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  • Jonathan Michael Reiter
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good Book! This is first time I've read it ...
    Reviewed in Canada on April 28, 2018
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    Good Book! This is first time I've read it in the many years it's been since I first read it... Really enjoying it!
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  • Amazon Customer
    3.0 out of 5 stars Read this years ago
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 7, 2012
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    I read this years ago and picked it up on kindle out of nostalgia really. Didn't disappoint really but was a vivid reminder of how my tastes have changed. Rollocking along the story seldom pauses but may be a little episodic - none the worse for that but there is a slightly disjointed feel to it. Damn good fun - especially if like me you originally read this more than 20 years ago and are refreshing you memory.
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