Bio of a Space Tyrant · Book 1

Refugee

Published
1 January 1983
Pages
318
ISBN-13
9781497658080
Type
novel
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About this book

Refugee (1983, 318 pages) opens Piers Anthony's Bio of a Space Tyrant as Hope Hubris, a teenage refugee, flees famine and violence on the Jovian moon Callisto -- the first stage of a first-person memoir that will carry him, over five more novels, from desperate refugee to one of the solar system's most feared political and military figures.

Key facts about Refugee

Refugee is a novel by Piers Anthony. Readers have had it since 1983. It runs to 318 pages.

Our list holds 1 edition of Refugee. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781497658080 to find the main one.

Refugee is book 1 of 6 in the Bio of a Space Tyrant series. The series has 6 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 Bio of a Space Tyrant

Refugee is book 1 in the Bio of a Space Tyrant series. It is followed by Mercenary. See the full Bio of a Space Tyrant reading order.

Hope Hubris begins the series as a teenage refugee fleeing famine and violence on Callisto, one of many colonized moons of a settled solar system, and ends it as one of the most powerful and feared political and military figures in that same system. Each novel tracks a distinct stage of his rise: the desperate flight from Callisto, a career as a mercenary and later officer in a system riven by class and ethnic warfare between the settled moons of Jupiter, a turn toward electoral politics, and finally his…

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