Shepherd, Piers Anthony
Shepherd, Piers Anthony
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Shepherd

Author: Piers Anthony

Narrator: Shannon Condon

Unabridged: 3 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/07/2023

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

The second in a New York Times bestselling author's wildly imaginative series about the nature of consciousness, set on a planet of unusual animals.

When Shep participates in the student exchange program, he finds himself in the body of a man on a rustic colony planet. Then a native sheep comes to the door. It seems Shep must become a literal shepherd, to his dismay. These are very special sheep, deadly, telepathic, and precognitive, and their will governs.

They also recruit a Vulture, a Python, and a lovely Elf girl for a dangerous journey. Then things get interesting. Soon Shep is deep in adventure and love. But he can't marry a native girl by proxy. Or can he? The most important thing he learns is to trust the sheep, no matter how wild it gets. Even when he returns to Earth . . .

About Piers Anthony

Piers Anthony has written dozens of bestselling science fiction and fantasy novels. Perhaps best known for his long-running Magic of Xanth series, many of which are New York Times bestsellers, he has also had great success with the Incarnations of Immortality series and the Cluster series, as well as Bio of a Space Tyrant, and others.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rosh ~catching up slowly~ on December 29, 2023

In a Nutshell:A beautiful Christmas-time novella set in the post WWII era. Might be predictable for today’s readers, but for the time it was written in, it is a standout piece. Definitely recommended if you can read it keeping in mind that it first came out in 1975. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Story......more

Goodreads review by Charles on December 26, 2022

An aviation classic and a nice Christmas story By Charles van Buren on December 30, 2017 Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase Many of the negative reviews of this novella are from people who claim that the book description did not state that this is a "short story.". I checked the Amazon descriptio......more

Goodreads review by Teresa on December 06, 2023

A short story which has been made into a movie. I enjoyed this a lot. I like stories that have a mysterious or ghostly element to it. For a short story it was very well done. I'm looking forward to the film.......more