Split Infinity by Piers Anthony

Official 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!

Okay....so to be perfectly honest I didn't manage to finish this book.  It doesn't happen often but occasionally there will be a book that, while it sounds interesting, just doesn't manage to capture and hold my attention.  This is one of those books.  It was just a little too out there....even for me.

Now don't get me wrong I love books that are different....books that take me to a world that I will never be able to experience in my life....a world full of magic or supernatural.  This book, which was first copyrighted in 1980, just crammed too much supernatural into one book.  

It's hard to believe I know....

In this book there are two different dimensions that you get to see.  

One world with multiple planets, a crazy game competition that makes up a big part of the past-time, robots that look so life like that you have trouble telling who is human and who is a robot.  

If that wasn't enough you then get transported into the other dimension which has magic, shape-shifting unicorns that can do all kinds of crazy things, werewolves, and magic talismans.  

The only thing that these worlds have in common is that they are trying to kill this one person, Stile.  

Unfortunately having these two dimensions, that didn't really go together at all (except in their mission to kill Stile), crammed into one book was a little too much for me.  I think if the book had stuck to one environment for the whole book I would have been okay because the writing was good and I was into the book until the new dimension came into play.  

It was just that new dimension and all of the new aspects that came with it made it all TOO much....for me.  Once you were starting to understand one world you would be whisked off to the other and have to start figuring things out, all over again.  It was just too much.  

Now it's your turn.  Read the book and let me know what you think!  Or if you have already read the book let me know what you thought of it.  Should I give the book another try?

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