Another great set of books from Piers Anthony. There are several books in the series, this is the first. I only read the first 3, but they were fantastic. It's a mix of Fantasy and Sci/Fi which makes it hard to pin down as far as Genre. I highly recommend it to anyone who is a fan of either. It's well written and has a great premise as well as plot. ( )

Anthony, Piers. Split Infinity. 1980. E-book ed., Del Rey, 2012. Apprentice Adept 1.
Piers Anthony is a clever tongue-in-cheek fantasist who delights in building unusual worlds. In Split Infinity, he gives us two for the price of one. We begin with a domed city on the planet Proton, a high-tech dystopia replete with humanoid robots and ray guns. Our hero, Stiles, is an indentured serf hoping to earn his citizenship by winning at the national games that include everything from ping pong and chess to fencing and horse racing. He is good with horses and has the classic jockey stature. Unknown citizens want to end his racing career. Another unknown citizen provides him with a sexy humanoid robot bodyguard. Then it is magic portal time, and we are off to a pastoral world replete with unicorns and werewolves. Stiles discovers he has innate magic powers.
A word about sex: clothes are illegal in the domed city, and all the women and fem robots are well-endowed. Anthony riffs on the later novels of Robert Heinlein, and such eighties pulpiness is not for everyone:--four stars, just barely. ( )

I think I read the first couple chapters and was wondering where it was going and why there was so much random nudity and apparent misogyny and when or if I'd get subverted. At a certain point I never got around to continuing to read it and now looking at the reviews here, it doesn't look like it actually goes anywhere. ( )

I enjoy Piers Anthony;s writing style and characters. This is not my favorite book or series of his but I do still quite enjoy it and I would recommend it. ( )

A touch of mystery, fantasy, AND science fiction. Seems to consider the question: what is the line between science fiction and fantasy? Not a deep book, but the main character does a great job of drawing you into the story. ( )