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Did anybody else read Piers Anthony growing up? I must have gone through 20 of his Xanth books when I was younger. That was one of the reasons I wanted to be ro
by rkalla 15y ago
Did anybody else read Piers Anthony growing up? I must have gone through 20 of his Xanth books when I was younger. That was one of the reasons I wanted to be rouge adventurer with magical partners.
I got a degree in CS instead =/
- ktsmith 15y agoI read just about every book of his I could get my hands on when I was growing up. About the time the puns of Xanth got old I had moved on to the Incarnations of Immortality books, Bio of a Space Tyrant and my favorites the Apprentice Adept series. They don't hold up nearly as well to me as an adult but I still have a giant dusty box of his books in my attic that I can't seem to part with.
- dugmartin 15y agoYes and he was 1 of 2 authors that wrote back to me when I sent a bunch of fan letters to fantasy authors around 1984 or so. I just looked and I still have it - a perforated postcard printed using a dot matrix printer. David Eddings was the other author - he sent the full syllabus to his college writing course plus some photocopied short stories in response to the statement I was thinking of becoming an author.
- rkalla 15y agoCurious, did Eddings's reply to you actually help steer you towards authorhood or did your life take a different journey?