Bearing an HourglassBy: Piers Anthony Series: Incarnations of Immortality Like On a Pale Horse, this second, complete in itself novel of the Incarnations of Immortality is a richly imagined and always fascinating story. And again, Piers Anthony adds to his gripping plot a serious, though provoking study of good and evil. When life seemed pointless to Norton, he accepted the position as the Incarnation of Time, even though it meant living backward from present to past.