Viscous Circle
- Published
- 1 January 1982
- Pages
- 266
- ISBN-13
- 9780380798971
- Type
- novel
About this book
Viscous Circle closes the series in 1982 at 266 pages, its shortest entry, bringing the Kirlian-transfer saga's exploration of identity and interstellar warfare to a close.
Key facts about Viscous Circle
Piers Anthony wrote Viscous Circle, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1982. The book has 266 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780380798971 to find the main one.
Viscous Circle is book 5 of 5 in the Cluster series. The series has 5 published books. However, the series starts with Cluster (1977).
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 Cluster
Viscous Circle is book 5 in the Cluster series. It follows Thousandstar. See the full Cluster reading order.
In the Cluster universe, a person's life force — their Kirlian aura — can be transferred across interstellar distances into another body, human or alien, letting a single consciousness inhabit wildly different physical forms and even species over the course of one adventure. Flint of Outworld, a young man from a backward human colony, is recruited by a dying interstellar civilization to travel this way through a hundred-world galactic cluster, occupying alien bodies to broker alliances and fight covert wars…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780380798971