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Cluster

by Piers Anthony
Published
1 January 1977
Pages
272
ISBN-13
9781497637689
Type
novel
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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.

Key facts about Cluster

Cluster is a novel by Piers Anthony. Readers have had it since 1977. It runs to 272 pages.

Our list holds 1 edition of Cluster. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781497637689 to find the main one.

Cluster is book 1 of 5 in the Cluster series. The series has 5 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.

Additionally, Piers Anthony writes Battle Circle, Of Man and Manta and Jason Striker, plus 11 more series. Those series sit on our science fiction, action thriller and fantasy shelves. Meanwhile, Three Novel Nymphs is the latest published Piers Anthony book on file, from 2025.

About Piers Anthony

Piers Anthony is a prolific British-born American author best known for Xanth, his long-running comic fantasy series built around magical puns and wordplay, which has run to more than forty novels since 1977. See every Piers Anthony book in order.

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…

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