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Chthon
Piers Anthony

Published 1967 by Ballantine Books · 254 pages
Hugo Nominee 1968Nebula Nominee 1968
Science FictionSynopsis
Aton Five is condemned to Chthon, a hellish subterranean prison from which no one has ever escaped, for the crime of loving a forbidden minionette — a beautiful, dangerous being who feeds on human life-force. The narrative alternates between his desperate struggle to survive in the caverns and flashbacks revealing the obsessive love that led to his imprisonment.
Classification
Details
Series
Chthon #1
Debut
This was the author's debut novel
Author Nationality
US
ISBN
9781497657328