Apprentice Adept · Book 4

Out of Phaze

by Piers Anthony

Published
1 January 1987
Pages
288
ISBN-13
9780441977079
Type
novel

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Cover of Out of Phaze

About this book

Five years passed before Out of Phaze continued the series in 1987, the shortest book yet at 288 pages. It opens the concluding four-book arc that shifts focus toward the next generation navigating the same Proton/Phaze divide.

Its place in Apprentice Adept

Out of Phaze is book 4 in the Apprentice Adept series. It follows Juxtaposition. It is followed by Robot Adept. See the full Apprentice Adept reading order.

Stile lives a double life across two versions of the same world: Proton, a rigidly stratified science-fiction planet where citizens compete in dangerous sanctioned games (the Game) for the vanishingly rare chance to become one of its ruling elite, and Phaze, a parallel fantasy dimension of magic, unicorns, and political intrigue where Stile's own counterpart is a powerful Adept sorcerer. Anthony structures the series around the two settings' constant, deliberate contrast — Proton's plots hinge on genetic…

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