In more modern times, Piers Anthony's Xanth books, Robert Asprin's MythAdventures of Skeeve and Aahz books, Terry Pratchett's Discworld, and Tom Holt's books provide good examples, as do many of the works by Christopher Moore.

* The fourth stanza was quoted by Lachesis to Zane in Piers Anthony's novel On a Pale Horse, the first of his Incarnations of Immortality series.

* Piers Anthony's page at Macmillan. com

It is never entirely clear whether these events actually occurred or were merely a dream — the narrator says that when he initially found a comfortable-looking spot in the roots of the tree, he sat down, " and as my sceptical In Piers Anthony's Bearing an Hourglass, the potent Hourglass of the Incarnation of Time naturally moves the Incarnation in space according to the numerous movements of the globe through the solar system, the solar system through the galaxy, etc.

* Chthon — The titular prison planet in Piers Anthony's novel Chthon.

* Nacre — A planet populated primarily by fungi, including an intelligent variety ; from Piers Anthony's novels Omnivore, Orn and OX.

A few other series have used the technology / magic combined motif, notably Apprentice Adept, another series by Piers Anthony, and Four Lords of the Diamond by Jack Chalker, although that book had an actual technological basis for the explanation of its magic, in contrast to Piers Anthony's work.

Interactions between magical and scientific universes, and the protagonists ' attempts to restore and maintain the balance between them, are major plot points in Piers Anthony's Apprentice Adept series ; he depicts two worlds, the " SF " planet Proton and the fantasy-based Phaze, such that every person born in either world has a physical duplicate on the other world.

* Piers Anthony's Visual Guide to Xanth ( 1989, with Jody Lynn Nye )

* Piers Anthony's Bibliography List

* Ghost of a Chance ( ISBN 0-8125-6450-2 ) ( 1988 ) by Jody Lyn Nye ( A Crossroads Adventure in the World of Piers Anthony's Xanth )

* Phaze, an alternate world in Piers Anthony's Apprentice Adept series

Several of their adventure games were based on book licenses, including Frederik Pohl's Gateway, Terry Brooks ' Shannara, Spider Robinson's Callahan's Crosstime Saloon, Piers Anthony's Xanth, and Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's The Death Gate Cycle.

The game is based on Piers Anthony's Xanth novels and is loosely based around much of the plot of his novel Demons Don't Dream, in which a young man uses a computer game to enter and explore the world of Xanth.

Typical to Piers Anthony's novels, the game is filled with puns and visual gags, and some knowledge of the Xanth universe is helpful ; for those players who haven't read any of the Xanth novels, an in-game ' Com-Pendium of Xanth ' is provided to the player for the majority of the game.

His paintings have appeared on the covers of more than 350 books and magazines, including many Stephen King novels, most of the Del Rey editions of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series, Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series, the Del Rey edition of Edgar Rice Burroughs ' Mars series, Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince and Dragon Star series, the DAW editions of Michael Moorcock's Elric books, numerous DAW editions of C. J. Cherryh's work, many of Robert A. Heinlein's novels including Friday and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, the Ace editions of H. Beam Piper's Fuzzy novels, and Tad Williams's Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Otherland, and Shadowmarch series.

* The Llano, a magical song from Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series

It is used in Piers Anthony's Xanth novels and Bill Willingham's comic book series Fables ( often shortened to " mundies " in the latter ).

* Stile, from Piers Anthony's Apprentice Adept series

* In Piers Anthony's fantasy novel On A Pale Horse, Satan sends hellhounds to attack Zane ( Death ) and bring him back to hell.

* Chameleon, a fictional character from the family of Ebnez from Piers Anthony's Xanth book series

Incarnations of Immortality is the name of an eight-book fantasy series by Piers Anthony.

* Orb Kaftan, a character from the Incarnations of Immortality novel series by Piers Anthony

* Zane in the Incarnations of Immortality novels by Piers Anthony

* Incarnations of Immortality, a book series by Piers Anthony

* Mode series, a quartet of novels by Piers Anthony

Xanth is a fantasy world created by author Piers Anthony for his Xanth series of novels, also known as The Magic of Xanth.

Curse fiends are a fictional race created by Piers Anthony for the series Xanth.

On 20 April 2012, Bruno was featured in the ITV series Piers Morgan's Life Stories.

Cherry is the brother of the science fiction writer C. J. Cherryh (" Cherry " is the original spelling of the last name of the family ), and has painted cover art for some of her books as well as books by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Sean Dalton, Robert Asprin and Lynn Abbey ( Thieves ' World series ) and Piers Anthony.

Sir Greville was introduced in the final episode of series 2, portrayed as a corrupt Cabinet Minister who recruited an unwitting Piers as Junior Minister for Housing in order to ' nod through ' some of his shadier housing projects.

An elderly backbench Conservative MP who shared the office with Alan and Piers during the first two series.

" The series ends with Sarah and Piers driving off and a solitary Alan standing freezing in the snow as the closing credits roll silently.

* Cube Route, the twenty-seventh book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony

The series features contestants aiming to win £ 100, 000 and spot on the bill at the Royal Variety Performance, while performing and being judged by Cowell, Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan.

In March 2009, she appeared in the new ITV series Piers Morgan's Life Stories, each episode included a celebrity figure and a one-to-one interview with Morgan about their lives.

* Flint, the protagonist in the Cluster series, by Piers Anthony

* Currant Events, Xanth series novel by Piers Anthony

Intrinsically valuable currencies are used in the Frank Herbert's Dune universe ; the Dragonlance world of Krynn where steel coins are the primary currency and are more valuable than gold by weight ; and the Apprentice Adept series by Piers Anthony.

* Aton, main protagonist in a series of novels by Piers Anthony

We know from a reference in William Langland's Piers Plowman, that ballads about Robin Hood were being sung from at least the late 14th century and the oldest detailed material we have is Wynkyn de Worde's collection of Robin Hood ballads printed about 1495.

Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob ( born August 6, 1934 in Oxford, England ) is an English American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony.

Act One of This American Life episode 470 is an account of boyhood obsessions with Piers Anthony.

The first clear reference to " rhymes of Robin Hood " is from the late-14th-century poem Piers Plowman, but the earliest surviving copies of the narrative ballads that tell his story date to the 15th century, or the first decade of the 16th century.

** Piers M is a dedicated Schengen area.

1386 ) is the conjectured author of the English dream-vision Piers Plowman.

The earliest recorded use of the term is 1362 in The vision of William concerning Piers Plowman ( Passus VI ) by William Langland and it is used to mean a small, misshapen egg, from Middle English coken ( of cocks ) and ey ( egg ) so literally " a cock's egg ".

She is described as born in 1292 in the Annals of Wigmore, and Piers Langtoft agrees, claiming that she was 7 years old in 1299.

Gilbert is better known for his participation in the assassination of Piers Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall.

In April 2011, Ventura stated on Piers Morgan Tonight and the The Howard Stern Show, that he is an atheist and believes that his beliefs could disqualify him for office in the future, stating that " I don't believe you can be an atheist and admit it and get elected in our country.

The existing church may be late 11th / early 12th century: the tower is some three centuries later and the most significant change since then was the restoration in 1870 by Piers St Aubyn.

Little is known of Piers Gaveston's early years ; even his year of birth is unknown.

There is also an Oxford University dining and drinking club called the Piers Gaveston Society.

The first record of a house on the site is in a manuscript folio dated 1465, but that house was demolished when construction of the present building began during the life of Piers Legh VII, in the middle of the 16th century.

During the latter part of the 18th century Piers Legh XIII bought most of the furniture which is in the house today.

West is patron of The National Piers Society, a charity dedicated to preserving and promoting seaside piers.

1360 – 87 ) or Visio Willelmi de Petro Plowman ( William's Vision of Piers Plowman ) is the title of a Middle English allegorical narrative poem by William Langland.

Piers is considered by many critics to be one of the early great works of English literature along with Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight during the Middle Ages.

It is now commonly accepted that Piers Plowman was written by William Langland, about whom little is known.