Split Infinity

Apprentice Adept Series, Book 1

By: Piers Anthony

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins

Publisher's summary

On the technological, decadent world of Proton, someone was trying to destroy Stile, serf and master Gamesman. His only escape lay in Phaze, a world totally ruled by magic. Soon he learned that his alternate self had already been murdered, and that he was next. On Proton, his fate depended on winning the great Games. On Phaze, he must master magic to survive. And if he used any magic at all, his friends were determined to kill him at once!

Be sure to check out all of the titles in the Apprentice Adept Series.

©1987 Piers Anthony (P)2010 Audible, Inc.

Critic reviews

"To solve his own demise, Stiles must travel between the two realities, each abounding with the expected confusions and unexpected plot twists for which Anthony is famous. An artful blending of SF and fantasy clichés and situations, Split Infinity shows Piers Anthony at the top of his ingenious game(s)." (Amazon.com review)

First book of a favorite trilogy

First book of a favorite trilogy, which later became a series dealing with the next generation.

Read this book forty years

Read this forty years ago and a mesmerising as I remembered it. While at that time I read the original first three novels, I will now finish the entire series.

Interesting story, great narration.

Protagonist is a person with integrity, needed commodity right now. Narrator does a great job of capturing the emotions of the characters without being cheesy. I read this book many years ago and I’m enjoying listening to it because there are so many subtle details the author included to cause the reader to think about human decisions. He discusses humanity in the same way that Star Trek does with the character Data. With A.I. becoming a big part of this century, The authors intriguing inquiry is even more relevant today than when the book was first written.

Over 30 years old and still yields modern interest

Great story leading into future books. The technology aspect is very interesting mixed with fantasy. The books holds my attention.

Fantastic SciFi Fantasy!

loved it! I finished faster than I intended, because I couldn't stop listening! Now on to book 2...YEAH

An somewhat entertaining book...

What did you like best about Split Infinity? What did you like least?

The book was well performed and it was an interesting split of Sci-Fi and Fantasy. Though the main character seemed to be both too perfect and completely helpless at times. Not one of the best Piers Anthony books I ever enjoyed.

Has Split Infinity turned you off from other books in this genre?

Nope

What about Traber Burns’s performance did you like?

Traber Burns did an excellent job of voicing all the characters with various voices so you could easily differentiate between characters. This made it seem like a one man play more than an audio-book.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

Yes

reliving the classics.

Reading some classic Sci-Fi. I may consider the rest if the series..this one was pretty good...not as predictable as many I have read lately. The living of dual lives, in dual dimensions. Nice...

Glad there are more in series

It's been several decades since I read the paper back I'll split infinity I am glad that I took the time to listen to it in this format as I enjoyed the story all over again the narration was very well done and I look forward to listening to several more in this series

Excelent story and performance

I could listen to this book over and over again. One of my favorite books!

Exactly how I heard it in my head

Story was the same, yes, but I loved the narrator. I wish the Xanth series was available