Tarot · Book 1
God of Tarot
- Published
- 1 January 1979
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN-13
- 9780441294701
- Type
- novel
About this book
God of Tarot (1979) opens Piers Anthony's trilogy at 288 pages, sending Brother Paul to investigate reports of a self-proclaimed god on a planet where tarot cards are literal, physical realities.
Its place in Tarot
God of Tarot is book 1 in the Tarot series. It is followed by Vision of Tarot. See the full Tarot reading order.
On the planet Tarot, colonized by a breakaway religious sect, the eighty-odd cards of the tarot deck are literal, physical realities: each card corresponds to an actual place, animator, or archetypal force that colonists can enter and interact with directly, turning centuries of occult symbolism into a navigable landscape. Brother Paul, a young man sent to investigate reports of a self-proclaimed god on the planet, journeys through this literalized card-scape while grappling with genuine questions about the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780441294701