Piers Anthony

Person · Open Library

Born

6 August 1934

Works

284

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1951-12-23

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

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Total plays

12,635

Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob (born 6 August 1934 in Oxford, England)[1] is an English American author in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony. He is most famous for his long-running novel series set in the fictional realm of Xanth. Many of his books have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list. He has stated that one of his greatest achievements has been to publish a book beginning with every letter of the alphabet, from Anthonology to Zombie

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data

   · 2014 · cited 61,916x

2. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,494x

3. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,786x

4. The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship

   · 2016 · cited 14,620x

5. Structure validation in chemical crystallography

   · 2009 · cited 14,179x

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Quotes

• “I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humourous, and continued from there. I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.”
• “I retaliated by visiting on them all manner of mischief, but I concluded, after some centuries of chronic relapsing on their part, that rage and punishment was not the best way to hold a clientele. It is only the most primitive of mortals who is swayed by that sort of thing.”
• “I realized suddenly that I was in an impossible situation, and there was really no way out. No acceptable way. I could not go on — so I stopped.”

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