Bio of a Space Tyrant · Book 6
The Iron Maiden
- Published
- 1 January 2001
- Pages
- 412
- ISBN-13
- 9781401043964
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Iron Maiden (2001, 412 pages) followed Statesman fifteen years after the original five-book arc concluded, returning to Hope Hubris's story as a later coda that assumes full familiarity with his rise from Callisto refugee to authoritarian executive. It's the sixth and final entry in Piers Anthony's most sustained work of adult political science fiction.
Its place in Bio of a Space Tyrant
The Iron Maiden is book 6 in the Bio of a Space Tyrant series. It follows Statesman. 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781401043964