Steppe Hardcover | Pages: 256 pages

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Original Title:	Steppe
ISBN:	0312937482 (ISBN13: 9780312937485)
Edition Language:	English

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Alp, a ninth century Uigur Warrior, is snatched from certain death to a time fifteen centuries in the future, where he takes part in a sinister game called Steppe, a game to which he is uniquely suited...

Steppe is an interesting book, to say the least. I've long been interested in Mongolian culture and Steppe fits the bill. The Game, as it is called, is a replaying of history with people playing the role of characters. The players of the Game are celebrities of a sort. As Chris Roberson says in the foreward, Steppe is a forerunner of both reality TV and virtual reality. It reminds me of Implied Space by Walter Jon Williams in that way. As far as stories go, it's a pretty good read. The writing style took me forever to place. It reminds me of Philip Jose Farmer when he's trying to be funny, like in Dark is the Sun or Green Odyssey.

So why only three stars? I'll tell you. Even though the edition I read was only 125 pages long, it still seemed about fifty pages too long. It felt like Piers was trying to stretch a short story into a novel. While I liked Alp and though his metamorphosis into Genghis Khan was well done, I felt like it was padded.

While I enjoyed Steppe, I'd call it good but not great. If you're into pulp fantasy with a Mongolian bend, you'll definitely enjoy it.

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Title	:	Steppe
Author	:	Piers Anthony
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	August 1st 1985 by St. Martin's Press (first published 1976)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fantasy. Time Travel

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Ratings: 3.49 From 798 Users | 28 Reviews

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Eurasian barbarian chieftain Alp is plucked from his time to land in the future. The inhabitants there (then?) run a massive, star-spanning cross between an MMORPG and a reality TV show set in the Dark Ages, and a couple of them hoped to snatch Alp as a point of reference to get a leg up in the game. Undeterred, Alp breaks free, and enters the game himself. There, he uses his knowledge and experiences to carve out his own personal virtual empire.I'm on the fence about this one. The action is

A few months ago, Ross reviewed. Ross was nice enough to send me his copy so I could give it a read as well. I did and was pleasently surprised. I had never read a Piers Anthony story before and didn't know what to expect but I had heard only cheesy things about the Xanth novels. I won't go over the plot again as Ross did an excellent job at this. I will simply talk about what I liked and didn't like about the novel. I loved Alp's, a character from the past, response to the people of the future.

An interesting attempt to combine history and science fiction.

This is a goofy book (not like his Zanth books!) that I'd put in a category with _Mixed Doubles_ by Daniel de la Cruz, because they take historical characters out of context, then try to recontextualize them in the time-traveling future. If you are interested in Mongolian/steppe cultures and sci-fi and RPGs, well this throws them all together. Kind of a hoot, actually.

it was good it was action backed but a little confusing

If you don't know your history for the steppes or the era of Ghengis Khan, this book will give you all the details in such a way you will never forget it. I have read this book at least 10 times and I still get new things from it. I plan on reading it again soon.

"Steppe" is the first book that I received from my Planet Stories subscription through Paizo, and I have to admit, I wasn't too keen on the idea of reading a Piers Anthony book. Prior to this, nothing that I had read about Anthony interested me, and compared to some of the other authors that Paizo had put out in this subscription--Brackett and Howard being the ones that really stood out--I was skeptical that Anthony could offer the same flights of fantastic adventure."Steppe" is in fact a fun