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Chthon

Piers Anthony

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#1716 of 8,085 books · #328 in Fantasy

Shortlisted for the Hugo Award for Best Novel (1968) and the Nebula Award for Best Novel (1967).

Chthon was a Nebula and Hugo Award Finalist. Chthon was Piers Anthony's first published novel in 1967, written over the course of seven years. He started it when he was in the US Army, so it has a long prison sequence that is reminiscent of that experience, being dark and grim. It features Aton Five, a space man who commits the crime of falling in love with the dangerous, alluring Minionette and is therefore condemned to death in the subterranean prison of Chthon. It uses flashbacks to show how he came to know the Minionette, and flash-forwards to show how he dealt with her after his escape from prison. The author regards this as perhaps the most intricately structured novel the science fantasy genre has seen.

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Publisher
Ballantine Books
ISBN-13
9781497657328
Topics
Forbidden loveImprisonment and escapeNon-linear narrative structure

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