Var the Stick
- Published
- 1 January 1972
- Pages
- 191
- ISBN-13
- 9780552097369
- Type
- novel
About this book
Var the Stick followed four years later, in 1972, at 191 pages, following a new young man rising through the same post-apocalyptic Battle Circle combat culture Piers Anthony introduced in Sos the Rope, wrestling with the same tension between the tribes' need for order and the violence the system is built on.
Key facts about Var the Stick
Var the Stick is a novel by Piers Anthony. Readers have had it since 1972. It runs to 191 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Var the Stick. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780552097369 to find the main one.
Var the Stick is book 2 of 3 in the Battle Circle series. The series has 3 published books. However, the series starts with Sos the Rope (1968).
Additionally, Piers Anthony writes Of Man and Manta, Jason Striker and Cluster, 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 Battle Circle
Var the Stick is book 2 in the Battle Circle series. It follows Sos the Rope. It is followed by Neq the Sword. See the full Battle Circle reading order.
Centuries after a nuclear apocalypse, the surviving population lives in scattered tribal camps that have replaced large-scale warfare with a ritualized, one-on-one combat system: disputes and status are settled inside the Battle Circle by trained duelists fighting with primitive weapons, under strict rules meant to prevent the wholesale slaughter that ended civilization the first time. Each of the trilogy's three novels follows a different young man rising through this brutal but rule-bound combat culture…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780552097369