Электронная книга: Piers Anthony «Mer-Cycle»
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Piers Anthony
Infobox Science Fiction Writer
name = Piers Anthony
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birth_date = Birth date and age|1934|8|6|mf=y
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nationality = USA
period = 1967 - Present
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debut_works = "Chthon"
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website = http://www.hipiers.com/
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Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob (born
Anthony's family emigrated to the United States from Britain when he was four. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen while serving in the
On multiple occasions he has moved from one publisher to another (taking a profitable hit series with him), when he felt the editors were unduly tampering with his work. He has even sued publishers for accounting malfeasance and won judgments in his favor. He maintains an Internet Publishers Survey in the interest of helping aspiring writers. [ [http://www.hipiers.com/publishing.html Internet Publishers Survey at hipiers.com] ] For this service, he won the 2003 "Friend of EPIC" award for service to the electronic publishing community. His website won the "Special Recognition for Service to Writers" award from
Anthony invested as an
Many of his popular novels have been optioned for movies. His popular series, Xanth, has a video game, titled "
Piers Anthony's novels usually end with a chapter-long Author's Note, in which he talks about himself, his life, and his experiences as they related to the process of writing the novel. He often discusses correspondence with readers and any real-world issues that influenced the novel.
Marriage and early career
Piers Anthony met his future wife, Carol Marble, while both were attending college. They were married in 1956, the same year he graduated from
Anthony and his wife made a deal -- if he could sell a piece of writing within one year, she would continue to work to support him. But if he couldn't sell anything in that year, then he would forever give up his dream of being a writer. At the end of the year, he managed to get a short story published. He credits his wife as the person who made his writing career possible, and he advises aspiring writers that they need to have a source of income other than their writing in order to get through the early years of a writing career.
"But What of Earth?" controversy
One important event in Anthony's early literary career were the disputes surrounding the original publication (1976) of "But What of Earth?". Editor
According to Anthony, he completed "But What of Earth?" and Elwood accepted and purchased it. Elwood then told Anthony that he wished to make several minor changes and in order not to waste Anthony's time, he had hired copyeditor (and author)
However, Elwood told Coulson something entirely different. Coulson understood himself to be a full collaborator, free to make his own significant revisions to Anthony's text, in line with suggestions made by Laser's previous line editors. In exchange, Elwood promised Coulson a 50/50 split with Anthony on all future royalties.
According to Anthony, the published novel is different in many respects from his version: most characters were imagined differently, their motivations revised and often left unclear, much of the dialogue had been reworked, and Coulson had cut many of Anthony's scenes and added several of his own invention. In Anthony's view, Coulson's efforts completely changed the tenor of the work, and not for the better.
Laser's ultimate publication of "But What of Earth?" listed Anthony and Coulson together as collaborators. Publications rights were reverted to Anthony under threat of legal action. Laser folded the next year, in 1977.
In 1989, Anthony (re)published his original "But What of Earth?" in an annotated edition through
Firefly novel controversy
In 1990 Piers wrote a book entitled 'Firefly' which has been banned by most libraries and bookstores as it contains a very graphic description of a 5 year old girl's sexual encounters with a homeless man. Pier's, in the author's note section defends the adult male/pre-pubescent female graphical sexual encounter stating that," it may be wrong in this culture, but is normal and acceptable in other cultures around the world". This had lead to his books declining popularity.Fact|date=October 2008
Bibliography
For autobiography refer to autobiographical subsection.
ee also
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References
External links
* [http://www.hipiers.com/ Official web site]
* [http://www.hipiers.com/bibliography.html Complete bibliography]
* [http://us.macmillan.com/author/piersanthony Piers Anthony's page at Macmillan.com]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20060524215520/http://www.jitterbug.com/xanth/index.html Extensive 2005 Interview] - via InternetArchive as [http://www.jitterbug.com/xanth/index.html original page] is gone
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* [http://wiredforbooks.org/piersanthony/ 1987 interview with Piers Anthony] by
* [http://www.lib.usf.edu/public/index.cfm?Pg=SpecialCollectionsTampa Piers Anthony Manuscript Collection at the University of South Florida-Tampa]
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Persondata
NAME= Anthony, Piers
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Jacob, Piers Anthony Dillingham
SHORT DESCRIPTION= American novelist and short story writer
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Источник: Piers Anthony
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