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** Sure, the Xanth books are filled with puns, but they lurk in other books too, plus the {{Meaningful Name}}s. And he loves logic puzzles; more than once has the climax of a book hinged on the protagonist figuring out a logic puzzle. This includes the Prisoners' Dilemma in the Literature/{{Xanth}} novel ''Golem in the Gears'' and the TwelveCoinsPuzzle in the ''Literature/IncarnationsOfImmortality'' novel ''With a Tangled Skein''.
** ''Literature/{{Macroscope}}'' involved the game ''sprouts''.
** Sure, the Xanth books are filled with puns, but they lurk in other books too, plus the {{Meaningful Name}}s. And he loves logic puzzles; more than once has the climax of a book hinged on the protagonist figuring out a logic puzzle. This includes the Prisoners' Dilemma in the Literature/{{Xanth}} novel ''Golem in the Gears'' and the TwelveCoinsPuzzle in the ''Literature/IncarnationsOfImmortality'' novel ''With a Tangled Skein''.
** ''Literature/{{Macroscope}}'' involved the game ''sprouts''.
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* DisposableWoman: Nearly all of his books have these; very often as [[DistressedDamsel Distressed Damsels]]. Women in ''Bio of a Space Tyrant'' seem to exist solely to be brutally raped and murdered.
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* DisposableWoman: Nearly all of his books have these; very often as [[DistressedDamsel Distressed Damsels]].[[DamselInDistress Damsels in Distress]]. Women in ''Bio of a Space Tyrant'' seem to exist solely to be brutally raped and murdered.
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* BoobBasedGag: Incredibly well-endowed women are common and jokes involving their busts are also common.
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* GagBoobs: Incredibly well-endowed women are common and jokes involving their busts are also common.
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* TheissTitillationTheory: His preferred form of fanservice. Though his works often feature fully-naked characters, they're not treated as any sexier than fully-clothed characters. ''Partially''-clothed characters, on the other hand, are tantalizing and exciting.{{in universe}}
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* TheissTitillationTheory: [[invoked]] His preferred form of fanservice. fanservice. Though his works often feature fully-naked characters, they're not treated as any sexier than fully-clothed characters. characters. ''Partially''-clothed characters, on the other hand, are tantalizing and exciting.{{in universe}}
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* TheissTitillationTheory: His preferred form of fanservice. Though his works often feature fully-naked characters, they're not treated as any sexier than fully-clothed characters. ''Partially''-clothed characters, on the other hand, are tantalizing and exciting.
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* TheissTitillationTheory: His preferred form of fanservice. Though his works often feature fully-naked characters, they're not treated as any sexier than fully-clothed characters. characters. ''Partially''-clothed characters, on the other hand, are tantalizing and exciting.{{in universe}}
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* TheissTitillationTheory: His preferred form of fanservice. Though his works often feature fully-naked characters, they're not treated as any sexier than fully-clothed characters. ''Partially''-clothed characters, on the other hand, are tantalizing and exciting.
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* YouKeepUsingThatWord: "Alicorn" to refer to a Winged Unicorn.
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** Adult men with teenage girls, often with the teens seducing the older men. And as he's gotten older, the girls have gotten younger.
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* AuthorAppeal: Nudism / InnocentFanserviceGirl, in spades. He also tends to use RapeAsDrama and LawfulStupid a lot.
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** Nudism / InnocentFanserviceGirl, inspades. spades.
** Healso tends to use RapeAsDrama and LawfulStupid a lot. lot.
** [[DarkIsNotEvil Terrifying looking but benevolent monsters who help the protagonist]] are pretty common, ranging from dragons to werewolves to a giant spider.
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** [[DarkIsNotEvil Terrifying looking but benevolent monsters who help the protagonist]] are pretty common, ranging from dragons to werewolves to a giant spider.
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* MagicAIsMagicAMagicAIsMagicA: Each story that uses magic always have, albeit usually simple, rules to them.
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* PungeonMasterPungeonMaster: ''Xanth'' is (kinda-sorta literally) made of puns.
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* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: The ''Battle Circle'' trilogy is made of this trope. No one ever seems to get what they (used to) want, except in the worst possible/least satisfying way. Overused to the point of a BrokenAesop ("Desire only leads to disappointment.")
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* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: The ''Battle Circle'' trilogy is made of this trope. No one ever seems to get what they (used to) want, except in the worst possible/least satisfying way. Overused to the point of a BrokenAesop ("Desire way, i.e "Desire only leads to disappointment.")"
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* CosmicChessGame: A lot of his fantasy stories have major conflicts that are instigated by deities playing games using mortals as pieces. This includes the [[EldritchAbomination Demons]] in ''Xanth'' and [[spoiler: [[GodAndSatanAreBothJerks God and Satan]]]] in the ''Kelvin of Rudd'' series.
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** Xanth tends to have a lot of near-rape moments in it, just not actually carrying through.
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** Xanth Literature/{{Xanth}} tends to have a lot of near-rape moments in it, just not actually carrying through.
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* 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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* 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 a (hopefully) stable "anchor" dimension).
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* DisposableWoman: Nearly all of his books have these; very often as [[DistressedDamsel Distressed Damsels]]. Women in ''Bio of a Space Tyrant'' seem to exist solely to be [[StuffedIntoTheFridge brutally raped and murdered]].
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* DisposableWoman: Nearly all of his books have these; very often as [[DistressedDamsel Distressed Damsels]]. Women in ''Bio of a Space Tyrant'' seem to exist solely to be [[StuffedIntoTheFridge brutally raped and murdered]].murdered.
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* DiedDuringProduction: Not Anthony himself, but sixteen-year-old high school student Robert Kornwise, who was struck and killed by a drunk driver in 1987. His friends sent his unfinished manuscript, ''Through the Ice'', to Anthony with a plea to help their deceased friend get published; Anthony finished the work and released it in 1989.
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Not Anthony himself, but sixteen-year-old high school student Robert Kornwise, who was struck and killed by a drunk driver in 1987. His friends sent his unfinished manuscript, ''Through the Ice'', to Anthony with a plea to help their deceased friend get published; Anthony finished the work and released it in 1989.
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: DiedDuringProduction: Not Anthony himself, but sixteen-year-old high school student Robert Kornwise, who was struck and killed by a drunk driver in 1987. His friends sent his unfinished manuscript, ''Through the Ice'', to Anthony with a plea to help their deceased friend get published; Anthony finished the work and released it in 1989.
