Piers Anthony's Out of Phaze Book Four of the Apprentice Adept Series Welcome to the astonishing parallel worlds of Phaze and Proton. Where magic and science maintain an uneasy truce. Where an accidental mind-switch plunges an apprentice wizard from Phaze into the mind-boggling technology of Proton. And where a robot named Mach is, in turn, swept away to a world of bizarre and terrifying wonders: the dazzling world of Phaze… "A little adventure, a little romance, a little gentle humor and much philosophical speculation… Anthony is as facile as he is prolific. He creates and populates realms with fanciful creatures from mythology (unicorns and werewolves), fairy tales (ogres and trolls) and his own imagination." -Cincinnati Post "A tale of adventure and intrigue featuring unicorns, evil wizards, extraterrestrials, and political tyrants, as well as two engagingly naive protagonists… Highly recommended!" -Library Journal "Don't underestimate Anthony's popularity!" -Kirkus "A complex tale of transposed identities, cyborgs and robots, werewolves and golems...!" -Publishers Weekly "The versatile and prolific author of fantasy and science fiction returns to one of his most popular series I with a tale of adventure and intrigue!" -Library Journal

When the Good Magician Humfrey's son Hugo suddenly vanishes, his disappearance sets in motion a series of madcap misadventures that send a collection of colorful characters on a perilous pair of parallel quests. Among them are Debra, a pretty young girl beset by an obnoxious curse; Hugo's beloved wife Wira, whose sightlessness is balanced by a talent for sensitivity, Happy and Fray, a pair of sprightly storm-spirits; Nimbus, the Demon Xanth's own son; and the mysterious outlaw known as the Random Factor. As they travel through some of the magical realm's most astonishing locales, these unwitting adventurers discover they are key players in a grand drama whose origins reach back to the origins of time itself. Filled with exhilaration and excitement, ribaldry and romance, Air Apparent is a fabulous new fantasy saga from the lively imagination of master storyteller Piers Anthony.

Nola and Tina are both girls with problems. They don't know each other yet, but they will, because each is a Creator, with the magical ability to turn dreams into reality. It would be a great gift and a great power—if either knew she had it. But this world is hard on dreamers, whether they dream true or not.     Nola is trapped in a terrible, abusive relationship with a man she once loved; Tina is an orphan who makes her living on the street. All their dreams are slowly being ground into dust. It's a common enough tragedy, a sorrow and a grief and a shame upon the world, no matter whom it happens to. But when dreams themselves die, when the great dreamers stop dreaming, whole universes of imagination are lost. And the land of Nola and Tina's dreams is fighting back. Into their miserable everyday world soars Esprit, a winged unicorn dark as the space between the stars. He is the vessel of Nola's dreams, come to aid her in her battle with sordid reality. Following after him...