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Old 02-06-2012, 10:54 AM   #18
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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington View Post
Maybe I'm a bigger perv than I think I am or that time has weakened my memory, but I find this criticism from people on this site surprising and disturbing.
Personally, I haven't read this particular one, but I have read others by Piers Anthony written across a wide range of time (including some that were deliberately meant to be pervy/disturbing from the outset, such as his Dangerous Visions contributions) and as I've mentioned, he's gotten a lot less restrained about things in more recent writing.

But yeah, there are some fairly common themes and a certain level of pervasiveness to them in his writing which appear to a greater or lesser degree in many of his books. It's probably the sort of thing one ends up noticing more upon re-reading a previous work or reading a bunch of stuff from him at the same time.

And to see how far he's sometimes taken it in major-house print-publications (as opposed to the small-press Mundania set up to print his deemed commercially un-mainstream stuff for his fans who want it), one can look up the plotlines and controversy surrounding his novels Firefly and The Caterpillar's Question.

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