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Virtual Mode

by Piers Anthony
Published
1 January 1991
Pages
329
ISBN-13
9781423352792
Type
novel
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About this book

Piers Anthony opened the Mode series with Virtual Mode in 1991, running 329 pages. It introduces Colene, a suicidal teenage girl from Earth who discovers a portal into Proton/Phaze and falls in love with Darius, a man trapped between realities, launching a loose sequel series to Anthony's Apprentice Adept.

Key facts about Virtual Mode

Virtual Mode is a novel by Piers Anthony. Readers have had it since 1991. It runs to 329 pages.

Our list holds 1 edition of Virtual Mode. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781423352792 to find the main one.

Virtual Mode is book 1 of 4 in the Mode series. The series has 4 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 Mode

Virtual Mode is book 1 in the Mode series. It is followed by Fractal Mode. See the full Mode reading order.

Colene, a suicidal teenage girl from Earth, discovers a portal into Proton/Phaze, the paired science-fiction-and-fantasy world at the center of Piers Anthony's Apprentice Adept series, and falls in love with Darius, a man trapped between realities. Anthony spins this connection into a new four-book arc that pushes the underlying premise of Apprentice Adept even further: rather than two linked worlds, the Mode series proposes an entire structure of alternate realities — 'modes' — each governed by different…

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