Wielding A Red Sword Author:Piers Anthony Book 4 of Incarnations of Immortality — Excellent condition — This was a world where both science and magic worked and magic carpets competed in the market with shiny new cars. Here the Incarnations of Death, Time, Fate, War, and Nature were real beings, caught up in a continuing effort to defeat the wiles of Satan. — Mym reluctantly accepts the of... more »fice as a way to cut through the tangled political web that has produced famine in his homeland and trampled on his private life. As hard as Mym works to keep earthly peace, however, Satan is ahead of him with snares and lures that lead to hell. Anthony's setting of a world where both science and magic work was charming in previous volumes but becomes troublesome here: demons coexist with biological warfare; two teardrops from an Incarnation are all it takes to end one aspect of the conflict in Ireland. In fact, most of this weak entry in the series is concerned with finding a proper mate for the hapless Mym.« less