The Cluster series is a series of novels science and fantasy fiction novels by English American SFF author Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob. Anthony debuted the Cluster series with the 1977 published Cluster that would later spawn four more titles culminating in the 1982 title Viscous Circle. Piers Anthony made a name for himself writing novels starting in all the 26 letters of the English Alphabet with the Xanth series the most popular of his novels. Anthony was born to Quaker pacifists Norma and Alfred Jacob. His father who held British citizen but was born in Philadelphia in the US took the family back to US, to a small rustic town of Winhall Vermont in 1941 where Piers made friends with Scott Nearing a radical author. Piers eventually went …show more content…
He got a short story published within a year and has never looked back since writing more than 100 novels in a career spanning that is nearing the fifty year mark. He established the Internet Publishers Survey that aims at helping fledgling writers in their careers fro which he won the DFriend of EPIC award in 2003 and the Preditors and Editors Special Recognition for Service to Writers Award. Anthony's novels typically end with an author's note that is about a chapter long in which he talks about his experiences writing the book, his life, himself, and real world issues informing the novel. Anthony who lives in Florida with his wife is deemed one of the greatest fantasy and science fiction authors …show more content…
The transfer is known as Kirlian transfer, a process through which the personality, knowledge and mind of a person can be transferred from one region to another in the sphere of influence. the Kirlian aura can be transferred from an animate to another animate body or from an animate to an inanimate body. Fro instance a person living on Earth could transfer his Kirlian aura to the colonists that have regressed to the stone age period thus making available to them advanced knowledge to further the sphere. This method of transfer of technology is less expensive given that only the aura is transferred across the sphere. Much of the series involves the protagonists moving from celestial body to celestial body and into alien bodies and using them to siphon energy from the Milky Way and combat existential threats from enemy