Cluster · Book 1
Cluster
- Published
- 1 January 1977
- Pages
- 272
- ISBN-13
- 9781497637689
- Type
- novel
About this book
Cluster opens Piers Anthony's series with Flint of Outworld, a young man from a backward human colony recruited by a dying interstellar civilization to transfer his Kirlian aura -- his life force -- into alien bodies and broker alliances across a hundred-world galactic cluster. Published in 1977, it runs 272 pages.
Its place in Cluster
Cluster is book 1 in the Cluster series. It is followed by Chaining the Lady. See the full Cluster reading order.
In the Cluster universe, a person's life force — their Kirlian aura — can be transferred across interstellar distances into another body, human or alien, letting a single consciousness inhabit wildly different physical forms and even species over the course of one adventure. Flint of Outworld, a young man from a backward human colony, is recruited by a dying interstellar civilization to travel this way through a hundred-world galactic cluster, occupying alien bodies to broker alliances and fight covert wars…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781497637689