Apprentice Adept (series)

Anthony, Piers (Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob). Apprentice Adept series. Includes Double Exposure omnibus, Out of Phaze (1987), Robot Adept (1988), Unicorn Point (1989) and Phaze Doubt (1990).

Series is significant for juxtaposing SF and fantasy worlds, separated by a curtain (for a portal motif), and mixing sentient machines with werewolves and unicorns, a computer Oracle with a feudal society threatened by environmental degredation through over-mining of a mineral. Cf. and contrast R. Zelazny's Trumps of Doom. (Brian Wolter [ENG 113], 02/12/95)