From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!duke!ucf-cs!bratman Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Title: Blue Adept Article-I.D.: ucf-cs.599 Posted: Mon Jun 14 12:18:26 1982 Received: Wed Jun 16 01:44:43 1982 Just a word about "Blue Adept" by Piers Anthony. This book just came out in paperback, and it's terrific. The book is a sequel to an earlier one called "Split Infinity". Without giving anything away, the story concerns the adventures of Stile, a serf on the planet Proton, whose main ambition is to attain the status of Citizen through a world-wide tournament known as the Game. The fun begins when he finds that Proton has a parallel counterpart named Phaze, which one can travel to simply by finding one of many entrances on the planet's surface.What possibilities when Stile discovers that as evolved as Proton is with scientific technology, Phaze is with magic. Anyone who enjoys duel sub-plots, and especially anyone who, like me, knows that Unicorns DO exist, will love these two books. The only miserable part in "Blue Adept" was finding the number of pages in my right hand dwindling to nothing, while realizing that there wasn't enough time for Anthony to tie up all the loose ends. Yes, obviously there is to be a third book, and it's excruciating to find out at the end of what you thought was a concluding sequel. In any event, most who subscribe to sf-lovers will be intrigued by Anthony's blend of pure S.F. and pure Fantasy into one book. Steve Bratman