Summary ...

Third book in the Aton series, Plasm was written by Writer/Editor Charles Platt. This book was sanctioned and authorized by Piers Anthony.

"I thought I knew all there was to know about Chthon—but Plasm opens up a whole new series of possibilities in a uniquely different style. Compelling and gripping." —Piers Anthony

Story Synopsis ...

Trapped by his possible pasts and futures, could Aton free himself - and the Universe - from Chthon?

He was Aton-Five, half breed cross between standard human stock and the forbidden Minionettes, beings who thrived on sexual cruelty and to whom love was the deadliest poison. For unpardonable crimes, he had been sentenced to the prison world of no return‘Chthon! And there he and countless others had died.

But death could not free Aton from his destiny. An unpredictable universe spewed him forth to wake again—for Aton was the key player in a game of interdimensional, interstellar survival. And only in the hell that was Chthon could he find his own possible redemption—and that of all organic life!

Author Information ...

Charles Platt's science fiction includes Twilight of the City, a study of urban decay at the turn of the century, and Less Than Human (under the pseudonym Robert Clarke), which applies a humorous treatment to traditional SF themes, His nonfiction includes computer books and the highly praised Dream Makers series, profiling fifty-seven of the best known science fiction authors in the field (including an interview with Piers Anthony).

Platt is the onetime editor of New Worlds, a radical British magazine of the late 1960's . He now lives in New York City, where in addition to writing novels, he is science fiction editor for the publisher Franklin Watts.

Chapters ...

The following chapter list refers to the Signet publication of Plasm.