Apprentice Adept · Book 1

Split Infinity

by Piers Anthony

Published
1 January 1980
Pages
368
ISBN-13
9780345354914
Type
novel

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Cover of Split Infinity

About this book

Split Infinity launched Piers Anthony's Apprentice/Adept series in 1980 at 368 pages, introducing Stile's double life across two versions of the same world -- Proton, a rigidly stratified science-fiction planet of rigged games, and Phaze, its magical parallel dimension where Stile has a sorcerer counterpart.

Its place in Apprentice Adept

Split Infinity is book 1 in the Apprentice Adept series. It is followed by Blue 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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