Steppe

By Piers Anthony and Peirs Anthony

Book Overview

A warrior chieftain battles a decadent galactic empire in a strange and deadly game.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812531205
• ISBN13: 9780812531206
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 0.9" x 4.2"

Customer Reviews

from the back cover

At the moment of his death, Alp, a powerful and cunning Turkish warrior chieftain, is thrust naked, weaponless and horseless into a bewildering world that her perceives as hell. He soon discovers that the hell he inhabits is filled not with demons, but a race of humans known as Galactics from an age far removed from his own. He has been chosen to fight, and perhaps die again, in a vast intergalactic game called Steppe-a strange recreation of his own era where horses are starships, cities are planets and mountains are suns. Alp has always been a victor in the bloody struggle for survival among his people. Will his barbarian cunning be enough to defeat the intellectual might of the Galactics and by his knowledge of his own time win a place for himself among the stars?

Steppe By Piers Anthony

This is one of my favorite books because after I finnished it and read the end notes I was facinated with the background. This is a sci-fi recreation of a historical figures life. Just a caution don't try to find out ahead of time who it is just read and then try to see if you can figure out who just from the story (it is accurate in a strange way). This is also a great way to get people who like sci-fi into history or to get a history buff into sci-fi.

Read it for a new way to learn history.

If you can get your hands on the orginal copy, GO FOR IT. I can't tell you what he did in the new version. I read the orginal in 10th grade and got an A in history with out cracking a book. Great tale and if he didn't change it to much this one would have to be a ten, becuase the first was a 15.

Read it, if you can find it.

This is a historical-science fiction book by the author of the Xanth series. A 'fish out of water' story about an chieftan from the ninth century steppe is brough into the future at the moment of his (would be) death. This novel tries to accuratly portray life during the age of Ghengis Kahn. I found it interesting and memorable.