{"product_id":"cluster-paperback","title":"Cluster - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePiers Anthony\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFirst in the sci-fi series \"packed with exotic beings, ancient secrets, and futuristic worlds\" from the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author (The Portalist).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As \u003ci\u003eCluster\u003c\/i\u003e opens, the alien envoy Pnotl of Sphere Knyfh seeks help from Sphere Sol in a shared galactic-level crisis: Galaxy Andromeda has discovered the secret of energy transfer and intends to use it to steal the basic energy of the Milky Way Galaxy. Knyfh offers the secret of aura transfer on the understanding that Sphere Sol will spread the technology to help create a galactic coalition to find and defeat agents of Andromeda. Sol's highest-Kirlian individual is Flint, a green-skinned native of Outworld, who has a Kirlian aura of two hundred, an eidetic memory (useful for memorizing the complex equations of Kirlian transfer that he will need to communicate to other spheres). He has extraordinary intelligence and is highly adaptable. His mission is complicated, however, by the fact that he is pursued everywhere by a very high Kirlian female Andromedan agent and, somehow, the Andromedans are able to detect and trace Kirlian transfers. Flint embarks upon several missions to bring transfer technology to neighboring spheres, inhabiting various alien forms. His efforts are successful despite attacks and sabotage by the Andromedan agent. Through the conflict, however, the mutual attraction of their two vastly superior auras begins to undermine their individual loyalty to their own Spheres. Flint and a group of other entities recover the information that will allow them to detect and trace transfers, and a member of the group is revealed as the Andromedan agent. One result is the catastrophic destruction of the local habitat. Flint and his nemesis are transferred into alien Mintakan bodies to survive. Choosing to leave things with parity between their two galaxies, Flint and the Andromedan mate and remain together until their auras fade (which happens rapidly, since their physical bodies have been destroyed).\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePiers Anthony\u003c\/b\u003e has written dozens of bestselling science fiction and fantasy novels. Perhaps best known for his long-running Xanth series, many of which are \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestsellers, he has also had great success with the Incarnations of Immortality series and the Cluster series, as well as \u003ci\u003eBio of a Space Tyrant \u003c\/i\u003eand others. Much more information about Piers Anthony can be found at www.HiPiers.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.62 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 05, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42117224824967,"sku":"9781497637689","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/7178499c63c1a7b0e48ed563cc8bd736.webp?v=1732522548","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/cluster-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}