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Prostho Plus

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A simple dentist is just doing his job when he ends up operating on an alien. He impresses the aliens so much that he is kidnapped to train dentists on the aliens' home world. This book is excellent, and indeed an interesting journey for imaginative minds. One of Anthony's best single books in print.

I originally read this book when it was new. Browsing an airport book stand for a sci-fi to read, the jacket design caught my eye. I followed this with reading the blurbs: "Can a mild-mannered dentist from Earth make it in the high-powered world of galactic dentistry?" Sounded like fun. I was completely unfamiliar with Piers Anthony's works before this. He subsequently became one of my favorite authors.

Piers Anthony manages to take earth-bound dentist Dr. Dillingham and launch him into galactic space to fix the dental woes of species never before dreamed of on this earth! Anthony leads the reader on a merry chase throughout the galaxy culminating in our hero achieving dental nirvana at the Galactic school of dentistry. A great flair for exposition lets the reader see the creatures Mr. Anthony has dreamed up for our hero. A pleasant read that is well worth the trip

After Dr. Dillingham, Earth dentist, performs a critical procedure on alien denture, he finds himself embarking on an unlikely adventure in "Prostho Plus". The minimal character and environmental development caters to the young reader with the typical nomenclature and vocabulary in a fairly loose fast-paced Piers Anthony storyline.

The author creates various functions for alien communication, many of which involve the teeth, constructing an extremely imaginative and fascinating galaxy. Romantic pursuit and suspenseful settings scatter the plot supplying variety to the otherwise linear intrigue. A pleasant read which also sends a message regarding the importance of dental hygiene.

Thank you.

Piers Anthony is best known for his popular fantasy / comedy series Xanth, but before he became bogged down in the puns of Xanth, he wrote some great science fiction and fantasy of world class. "Prostho Plus" is one of those really great books.

What sets this book apart in the spirit of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is that the protagonist is an unlikely dentist catapulted off terrestrial Earth into the highly dangerous field of intergalactic dentistry. Dr. Dillingham, the human dentist, is propelled from alien mouth to alien mouth performing badly needed procedures for xenoforms in pain. The book is hilarious and Anthony's ideas about alien mouths are both interesting and innovative.

I highly recommend this very amusing and well-written novel!

Review by: Maximillian Ben Hanan

One of Anthony's old novels and one that I've read many times.

It's what I would call light sci-fi. Light meaning it's not cerebral, but merely fun to read. It's a short book, detailing the experiences of a dentist kidnapped by aliens and working in outer space populated by many species of aliens from many planets that we know nothing about. It's not a serious read, but it's fun and comedic, anyone can probably finish this in a day or two.

It's Piers Anthony showing his fun side. Too bad he didn't create 2 or 3 sequels to it. Don't know why this book didn't catapult him to success, maybe it's too short! But either way, if you're a Piers Anthony fan or if you like light and humorous sci-fi you must read this one.

This book also has a strong message. It's clean your teeth! If there are any parents wanting to teach their kids the important of dental hygiene, they might want to read them this book. Anthony doesn't have an agenda in most of his books, maybe he wrote this one after a strong lecturing from his dental hygienist!

I work with predental students and am tired of all the books and movies in which the dentist is the bad guy. I love that this dentist is conscientious about his patients, even though they are aliens. I've bought several copies for my office library. This is an oldie, but a goodie.

Just picked this up at a rummage sale and was pleased; Anthony does a nice job at imagining galactic dentition (and species and cultures), lending something with potentially only entertainment value a bit more substance.

I thoroughly enjoyed this read. If you are a Piers Anthony fan, a Xanth reader...you will be pleasantly surprised to hear the voices of another type of character. In any case...its hard to imagine that he wrote this so early in his career, but one can certainly see his early promise.

Dr. Dillingham applies and attends the Galactic University of Dentistry and then takes the time to work on the teeth of alien beings with dental problems. Though I admit no fondness for much of Anthony's work, this novel is certainly unique. Reading Dr. Dillingham's exploits of filling in a cavity in the mouth of a beast where each tooth is well over fifteen feet high is, to say the least, highly unusual. This novel was strung together from several short stories, but it works well enough. This is a short, funny little book. If you ever wanted to know just how wierd dentistry can be, then find a copy and open up and say "aaaaaah."