Mute
by Piers Anthony
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Mute is science fantasy of mutation and psi: special mental powers. The protagonist, Knot, is a double mutant: He has a physical deformity, and the psi power to make others forget him. He's satisfied with his life-until the lovely Finesse walks into his life to recruit him for a dangerous galactic mission. She is aided by two small animal mutants: a telepathic weasel and a clairvoyant crab. Knot tries to resist, aided by his psi, but the woman's beauty and the animals' powers doom him to a show more phenomenal adventure. The prior edition was cut; this is the complete version. show lessTags
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Knot, a physically deformed mutant with the psychic power to make people forget him, is recruited for a galactic mission to stop an unknown enemy from destroying the universe's guiding computer, the Galactic Coordination Computer (CCC). He teams up with human Finesse, weasel Hermine, and crab Mit in a perilous adventure.
Meh. I found this a mediochre work. There are a few interesting, innovative ideas but the plot failed to grab my attention.
A mutant placement director with the ability to make people (always) forget him is recruited to help stop an unknown agent from destroying the computer the coordinates the universe.
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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 show more 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. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Mute
- Original publication date
- 1981
- First words
- Knot always slept on his left side.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And Knot, knowing she would return now with him and Hermine to fight it out among the living, to abate chaos and live and love love with vigor and dispatch, was mute.
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 7
