From the Hardbound TOR Edition ...

"Here for the pleasure of his millions of fans is a brand new collection of short fiction by best-selling writer Piers Anthony. This collection of sixteen short stories includes four that have never been published, and seven that have been published only overseas or in small magazines. Each story is introduced by Piers Anthony.

"The stories include Alien Plot, the title story, a brand new long story that tells of an alien plot of ground that becomes home to a man from our world; Nonent is about another kind of alien plot, this one a plot to conquer Earth. 20 Years, another brand new story, is a fable of life and death in the future.

"The collection also contains Soft Like a Woman from the shared world of The Fleet. It is a suspenseful story of how a fleet operation is recovered from disaster by the courage of one small human woman. And there is also A Plague of Allos, Anthony's venture to Elfquest's World of Two Moons.

"Other stories included are December Dates; Ship of Mustard, a spicy SF adventure tale; Imp to Nymph which was originally published in the World Fantasy Convention program book in 1987; E van S, a story that reveals the truth about who, or what, controls television programming; Vignettes, three short-stories written for a fan publication; Hearts, a lovely story written for the Christmas edition of Books and Bookmen, a British magazine; Revise and Invent, a very funny satire on the business of being a writer; and Love 40, also published only in Britain, which gives a new meaning to a traditional tennis term.

"Piers Anthony's remarkable career as a best-selling fantasy writer is unprecedented. Tor published Anthony's first short story collection, Anthonology, in 1986. Piers Anthony lives in Inverness, Florida."

Praise for Alien Plot and Piers Anthony ...

"Top-notch ... an entertaining assemblage that Anthony's fans will surely welcome." — Publishers Weekly

"Cogent, sharply worded ... Anthony is certainly right in saying that critics have gone on dismissing him too long and too loudly." — Booklist

"Piers Anthony is one of those authors who can perform magic with the ordinary ... [He] is a craftsman, and, like a skilled furniture builder who can make a chair much more than a place to sit, makes a book more than words to read." — A Reader's Guide to Science Fiction

"His portraits of aliens and their societies is one of his great strengths as a science fiction writer." — 20th Century Science Fiction Writers