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Piers Anthony has written several series, including:
 
* ''[[Xanth (Literature)|Xanth]],'' mostly set in a world of magic and puns about the size and shape of Florida (both the world and the puns).
* ''[[Incarnations of Immortality]],'' where being an [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] is just a job.
* The ''[[Apprentice Adept]]'' series, about two mirror worlds; one hi-tech, one magical.
* ''[[Bio of a Space Tyrant (Literature)|The Bio of a Space Tyrant]]'', about the titular tyrant's rise from refugee to supreme power in a [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|Sci-Fi Counterpart Culture]] based on Earth in [[The Eighties]].
* The [[Cluster]] series, where all [[Faster-Than-Light Travel]] is done through possessing aliens.
* The ''Mode'' series, which is about characters traveling across dimensions--each of which has fundamentally different rules--on foot. (Literally, every ten meters they are in a new dimension they could not see before, stepping across the boundary is very dangerous, and they'd have to do this for hundreds or thousands of dimensions before reaching an (hopefully) stable "anchor" dimension).
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=== His work includes examples of: ===
* [[Author Appeal]]: Nudism / [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]], in spades. He also tends to use [[Rape Asas Drama]] and [[Lawful Stupid]] a lot.
* [[Be Quiet Nudge]]: Happens a few times in a form of a kick.
* [[Black Comedy Rape]]: The entire point of his "adult-themed" comedy ''Pornucopia''.
* [[Dead Little Sister]]: Combined with [[Rape Asas Drama]] and pushed to extremes in ''Bio of a Space Tyrant''.
* [[Dirty Old Man]]: Self-professed even. Not really a surprise to anyone who has read anything he's written.
* [[Disposable Woman]]: Nearly all of his books have these; very often as [[Distressed Damsel|Distressed Damsels]]. Women in ''Bio of a Space Tyrant'' seem to exist solely to be [[Stuffed Into the Fridge|brutally raped and murdered]].
* [[Eskimos Aren't Real]]: In "Possible To Rue", a young boy's pleas for a pet pegasus leads his father to look the animal up in the encyclopedia and show that they're mythical. So are unicorns. To the father's astonishment, so are [[Inverted Trope|zebras, mules, and even horses]], which he distinctly remembers placing bets on. It's implied that, by denying zebras are real to avoid having to buy one, the father has inadvertently begun erasing these creatures from the universe.
* [[Fetish Fuel Station Attendant]], particularly [[Blood Lust]]: Colene in the ''Mode'' series. At 14, [[Emo Teen|she's a suicidal cutter]], [[Rape Asas Drama|she's been gang-raped]], [[Wrong Side of the Tracks|she runs around with a gang member named]] [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|"Slick"]], [[Abusive Parents|her parents are emotionally abusive]] ([[The Alcoholic|and alcoholics]])... [[Sarcasm Mode|Quite an accomplished young lady.]]
* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: Particularly in his ''Xanth'' series, almost every one of which are reader submitted (and credited).
* [[Honor Before Reason]]: A common trait of most of his protagonists. Mr. Anthony has repeatedly said that he believes heroes should be [[Lawful Stupid]]. In the ''Battle Circle'' trilogy, the entire Nomad culture is based on this.
* [[I'm a Man, I Can't Help It]]: All over the place. He likes to hammer this point home by having a woman become a man briefly -- upon returning to normal she will be full of surprised gratitude to her male companions for restraining their beastly urges.
* [[Inside a Computer System]]: ''Killobyte'' has the main characters trapped in VR.
* [[Magic Aa Is Magic A]]
* [[Mermaid Problem]]: Piers Anthony goes out of his way to analyze mermaid physiology in several of his series.
* [[Naked People Are Funny]] / [[National Geographic Nudity]]: Piers has said on several occasions that he doesn't understand why people consider human nudity to be shocking/harmful/etc. He tends to mix it into his stories -- for example, Mermaids in ''[[Xanth (Literature)|Xanth]]'' are nudists, as are pretty much any [[Half-Human Hybrid|Half Human Hybrids]] as a rule. In one novel the heroine -- a Mermaid who turns human -- spends a significant amount of time in the book before she gets any clothing. The most intelligent race, Centaurs, go topless except for utility and mate in the open, on the grounds that natural functions are, well, natural.
** The [[Apprentice Adept]] series starts off on a colony world named Proton where only the members of the ruling class (called Citizens) are allowed the privilege of wearing clothing. The majority of the population consists of their indentured servants, called "serfs", who are required by law to go naked at all times.<ref>There are exceptions for safety gear and such, to cover the corner cases.</ref>
* [[Only in Florida]]
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* [[Pirate Girl]]: Several in ''The Bio of a Space Pirate''.
* [[Pungeon Master]]
* [[Rape Asas Drama]]: Nearly all of his books feature this prominently.
** In ''Fractal Mode'', the time spent with the rabble includes mental images of rape (provided by Darius, transmitted by Seqiro) during the duels with the rabble (in the form of ribbon bondage). This is in addition to Colene's memories of rape near the beginning of the book.
** Xanth tends to have a lot of near-rape moments in it, just not actually carrying through.
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