"...a ruthless, chthonic knowledge of male vulnerability...."
i thought chthonic was a typo, but atomica readily piped up with a definition. never seen it before, so i thought i'd share, since it's such a neat-o spelling =)
Piers Anthony wrote a bad novel called "Chthon", then dug even further into the dirt and came up with another called "Phthon". I guess it's true: He does have tunnel vision.
dug even further into the dirt and came up with another called "Phthon"
Exposing to all and sundry my dilettantish (I'd say encyclopedic, but tsuwm may, to his sadness, trump me here) knowledge of bad sci-fi, I believe the sequel to "Chthon" was called "Phthor," from some superficial resemblance of the main character to the Norse Thunderer.
Phthor is the second in the Aton series and sequel to Piers Anthony's first published novel, Chthon, less intricately structured and less complicated in plot, but still quite dark and ugly in theme and detail. Rather than flashbacks and flashforwards, it has a Y outline, with the stem the initial story and the ends alternate futures, neither of which is acceptable to Aton’s son Arlo.
From what I read of the blurbs at the site, I'm glad I never wasted time on the originals.
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