The Caterpillar's Question

Piers Anthony, Philip José Farmer

Ace Books, 1992 - Fiction - 264 pages

Get ready for a spectacular adventure by two of today's most popular writers of science fiction. Piers Anthony, bestselling creator of Xanth, and Philip Jose Farmer, Hugo Award-winning author of Riders of the Purple Wage, combine their explosive talents and imaginations to create a fantastic sag a that stretches from modern-day America to the ultimate battle for the soul of the universe. . . .

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 21
• Section 3: 40

About the author

Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob was born in August, 1934, in Oxford, England. He graduated from Goddard College in Vermont in 1956. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen while serving in the United States Army in 1958. He served in the U.S. Army from 1957-1959. In 1977, he received a British Fantasy Award for A Spell for a Chameleon. Anthony's family emigrated to the United States from Britain when he was six. Highly popular because of his science fiction and fantasy works, Anthony is also known for the Jason Striker series and martial arts novels co-written with Roberto Fuentes. A highly prolific author, Anthony's other works include Bio of a Space Tyrant, Cluster, and the Omnivore series. Anthony makes his home in Tampa, Florida. He also writes under the pseudonym Robert Piers. Philip José Farmer was born in North Terre Haute, Indiana on January 26, 1918. He worked in a steel mill while attending Bradley University at night and writing in his spare time. In 1952, his story The Lovers, in which a human has sex with an alien, was published in a pulp magazine called Startling Stories and won him the Hugo Award in 1953 for most promising new author. He quit his job to become a full-time writer, but a string of misfortunes eventually forced him to take jobs as a manual laborer. He worked as a technical writer from 1956 to 1970, but continued writing science fiction. He finally found success in the 1960's with the Riverworld series. He wrote more than 75 books throughout his lifetime including the Dayworld series and the World of Tiers series. He also wrote short stories. He won the Hugo award for best novella in 1968 for Riders of the Purple Wage and for best novel in 1972 for To Your Scattered Bodies Go. In 1988, he was the recipient of the Writers of the Past Award and the Nova for best book for Riverworld. In 2001 he was awarded the Grand Master Award and the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award. He died on February 25, 2009 at the age of 91.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Caterpillar's Question
• Authors: Piers Anthony, Philip José Farmer
• Publisher: Ace Books, 1992
• ISBN: 0441094880, 9780441094882
• Length: 264 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Fantasy / General; Fiction / General; Fiction / Science Fiction / General