Tarot · Book 2

Vision of Tarot

by Piers Anthony

Published
1 January 1980
Pages
260
ISBN-13
9780441864614
Type
novel

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Cover of Vision of Tarot

About this book

The shortest of the three at 260 pages, Vision of Tarot followed in 1980, continuing Brother Paul's single ongoing quest through the literalized tarot card-scape as Piers Anthony keeps pressing his questions about belief and religious experience.

Its place in Tarot

Vision of Tarot is book 2 in the Tarot series. It follows God of Tarot. It is followed by Faith of Tarot. See the full Tarot reading order.

On the planet Tarot, colonized by a breakaway religious sect, the eighty-odd cards of the tarot deck are literal, physical realities: each card corresponds to an actual place, animator, or archetypal force that colonists can enter and interact with directly, turning centuries of occult symbolism into a navigable landscape. Brother Paul, a young man sent to investigate reports of a self-proclaimed god on the planet, journeys through this literalized card-scape while grappling with genuine questions about the…

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