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Chthon

Piers Anthony

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Published 1967 by Ballantine Books · 254 pages

Hugo Nominee 1968Nebula Nominee 1968
Science Fiction

Synopsis

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.

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Series

Chthon #1

Debut

This was the author's debut novel

Author Nationality

US

ISBN

9781497657328

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