Serpent's Silver

Piers Anthony is one of the world's most popular fantasy authors and a New York Times bestseller twenty-one times over. His Xanth novels have been read and loved by millions of readers around the world. In addition to his bestselling Xanth books, Anthony is the author of a series of historical fantasies called The Geodyssey, that makes the broad sweep of human history into very personal stories. Piers Anthony has a devoted fan following, and he daily receives hundreds of letters and emails from them. Piers Anthony lives in Inverness, Florida.

Robert E. Margroff (1930–2015) was born on a farm in Fayette County, Iowa. After training as a typesetter, he worked for various newspapers, eventually returning to the farm in the wake of his father’s death. Margroff published his first science fiction short story, “Monster Tracks,” in If magazine in 1964 and saw a rise in popularity when he published his first novel of many with Piers Anthony, The Ring, in 1968.