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| Original Title: | Incarnations of Immortality |
| ISBN: | 0345364236 (ISBN13: 9780345364234) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Incarnations of Immortality |
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Major Spoiler Alert:1: On a Pale Horse: Zane, a guy of middling moral fortitude who's just been tricked into using magic to fritter away any chance of future happiness in his life attempts to shoot himself in the head, but when Death comes for him personally he freaks out and shoots Death right in the face, killing him! He becomes Death! Satan tries to mess up his job, but he perseveres and becomes a good Death!
2: Bearing An Hourglass: Norton tires to save his love, but gets tricked into taking up the mantle of Chronos, Incarnation of Time! He befriends Sning, a cool prophetic snake ring, and an actual alien from outer space, and is soon ensnared in a grand illusion of Satan, who is trying to steal his power! To escape, he witnesses the very beginnings and endings of the universe!
3: With a Tangled Skein: Niobe is a super beautiful woman from early last century who becomes not one, but two aspects of Fate, first Clotho, then Lachesis! Her tangled personal relationships begin to tie the series together! Her son becomes a super magician pulling strings behind the scenes, her daughter Orb becomes Nature in book 5, Orb's daughter is the love of Norton from book 2, and Niobe's other granddaughter via the Magician is the love of Zane from book 1.
4: Wielding a Red Sword: Mym loves Orb, but his rich family separates them... He has Sning to her! Later, Satan orchestrates world peace so that the old incarnation of War is replaced by a new one - Mym! - and sends demoness Lilah to corrupt him. However, Lilah falls in love with Mym instead and together they thwart Satan!
5: Being a Green Mother: Orb has a baby with Mym and gives her Sning! Orb has music powers, and when she's told she's fated to become the next Incarnation of Nature, she attempts to learn a special ubermagical song that controls nature... but ends up falling in love with Satan in disguise! However, it is true love, and Satan destroys himself by singing a duet of a religious Hymn! Orb, now Nature, is sad, but the day is won!
That really wrapped things up nicely! All throughout the series cool stuff was happening, punctuated with some of the characters hooking up or having rather risque experiences that served to enhance the story. Probably the weirdest sex related thing that happened was in book 4 when Mym sliced up the demoness... she was unkillable though, her insides were just a blank grey. She was still holding a calm conversation with him as he tossed her pieces into a box and sent her back to hell, if I recall correctly.
Based on the success of the first five books, Piers Anthony wrote two more. In book 6 he covered the antagonist of the first books, Satan.
6: For Love of Evil: Parry was a sorcerer, in love with Jolie, in the 11th century... but Jolie was killed and became a ghost! Parry then became a priest, but then Lucifer, Incarnation of Evil, sent the demoness Lilah to corrupt him, and she did, through sex! Lucifer came to take him directly to hell, but didn't realize Jolie was there too, empowering Parry to reflect Lucifer's own attack back at him, killing him and making Parry the new Incarnation of evil, to be named... Satan! Still basically a good guy who happened to have been born with magic and liked having sex, he tried to figure out how best to do his job, and soon found out that Hell was set up in an archaic way, and he discovered that a lot of things that were labelled as sins weren't all that bad! However, there was little he could do about it directly, so he tried talking about it with the the other Incarnations... but was rebuffed and humiliated by each one in turn! (Except for Time, who he befriended, but was replaced by another one who hated him later on). Finally he went to the Incarnation of Good, God, and discovered that he was basically a vegetable... he had tuned out from the problems of life on earth long, long ago, and just sat around beholding his own magnificence. Plus, Heaven was super boring... good people would get there, but not be allowed to do anything natural or fun, specifically, lovers couldn't have sex. Now, he had fended off a bunch of angels to get there, but ended up talking with the angel Gabriel, who was in charge while God was indisposed. They made a deal for power: If Satan could corrupt a specific person, or one of that person's descendants out to the third generation down, Satan would win and could change the status quo, otherwise not. However, Gabriel got to choose, and it was a person who lived centuries later! Niobe! At that point, the book recounted the events of the first 5 books, from his perspective, now revealed to be somewhat reasonable considering his goal. However, he was overcome by love and destroyed himself by singing with Orb/Nature! However, that freed Jolie, who was able to explain some things to the other Incarnations, along with input from Lilah, Gabriel, and so on, (plus, the office of Evil had gone to the most evil person in the world, a serial killer, who was not secretly a good guy) and they set Parry free from his prison in hell. He fought with the new Evil, and defeated him! Then he got to hook up with his new love, Orb/Nature, and his old love, Ghost Jolie.
So, in covering the Incarnation of Evil, Piers Anthony revealed that there was a secret backstory to all the fights with Satan in the first series. The recap chapters at the end were boring, but it seemed worth it. However, now we knew that this alternate view contained a new goal (replace God, redefine sin according to modern sensibilities), and that goal wasn't achieved! That brings us to:
7: And Eternity: Woo, the titles are a set! Orb's daughter Orlene is a very good person. For some reason, she enters into an arranged 'Ghost Marriage', to bear a child for an actual ghost named Gawain, after being impregnated by a sperm donor, Norton (we see his take on things in book 2). She has a baby, but had been convinced to have the baby's DNA altered to match the ghost daddy's. Unfortunately, Gawain's family possessed a curse to die early, and the baby now had the curse! And it died! Orlene finds out the curse was from the genetic tampering, and discovers that Nature (her own mother!) had facilitated that at the ghost daddy's request, but couldn't fix it. Finding that there was nothing she could do for her baby in life, she killed herself to help in in death! She was helped by Jolie, the ghost that loved Parry (now Satan) and hung out with her mom (Orb/Nature) a lot. Together, they end up finding out about, then going to Nox, Incarnation of Night, for help. We discover that at the dawn of what passes for time, all magic energy was a big swirl, that separated into a day swirl and a night swirl. The day swirl oversaw things that generally happened when people were active, and there was so much activity that it split into 7 parts, the other incarnations of immortality. However, night was less active, so it didn't split up. So, they figured it had quite a bit of power and could help. But when they got there, Nox already had the baby with her in ghost form! After a humiliating test, which Orlene failed (she was turned into a man and raped... Nox? Or maybe Jolie, it's been a while) Nox took pity on them and sent them on an extended fetch quest... a powerful item from each Incarnation that only they could provide, that would enable them to heal the baby's curse and bring him back to life. They were: A fresh soul from Death, a grain of sand from Time's hourglass, a thread of life from Fate, a seed of war from War, a tear from Nature, a curse from Evil and a Blessing from Good. In the meantime, the baby would stay with Nox, who could take care of it. Then the two ghosts got put in the body of a young prostitute, and the three of them went on some adventures, had lots of sex, and met all of the incarnations... all of them relatives of Orlene. Long story short, they got everything except for the blessing from God, who had tuned out. But! In the process of all of this, that status of God was revealed to all (except Parry/Satan, who already knew) and in a kind of parliamentary action, the Incarnations got together and voted out God! To fill the position of Good once more, a goodly judge that Orlene had met on her adventures was proposed, but he refused! But then, Satan himself proposed Orlene as the replacement, and his idea was so good that everyone agreed. The items that Orlene had collected were used to put her into office, and it was done! The world was made better... plus Satan had fulfilled his quest (from the last book) to either replace God with a better office holder or take everything over himself! Orlene, as the new God, had experienced many aspects of life, learning about modern morality, and now she could be an active Incarnation of Good, and update the list of sins so that everyone went to their proper place in the afterlife!
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| Title | : | Incarnations Of Immortality (Incarnations of Immortality) |
| Author | : | Piers Anthony |
| Book Format | : | Book Set |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 161 pages |
| Published | : | July 1983 by Ballantine (first published 1983) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Young Adult. Science Fiction |
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Excellent Series!Though he spent the first four years of his life in England, Piers never returned to live in his country of birth after moving to Spain and immigrated to America at age six. After graduating with a B.A. from Goddard College, he married one of his fellow students and and spent fifteen years in an assortment of professions before he began writing fiction full-time.Piers is a self-proclaimed
Loved this series!
Starts off strong with the aspect of death, ends with pedophilia and 2 ghosts in a 14 year old prostitute.
Made me remember my love of reading
The particular "Incarnations of Immortality" book that I just read was, "Wielding a Red Sword" which isn't found (at least I couldn't find it) on Goodreads. Strange because I just read and found "Being A Green Mother" on Goodreads.
I first read these books in my late teens and early adulthood as I began to discover the wonderful, mysterious, inviting fun of reading fantasy as a genre. Piers Anthony and Roger Zelazny got me hooked; and so, it is to the Incarnations of Immortality that I turn to, (or the never-ending shades of Amber), when I need something familiar and enchanting to soften the more difficult histories that I usually read, ( being one of those persons who usually has 3 or 4 books open and in the way of being
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