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Author is Piers Anthony
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1 2007 Air Apparent
Magic of Xanth #31
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2 1990 1999 And Eternity
Incarnations of Immortality #7
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IN PURSUIT OF THE ULTIMATE GOOD

After an overwhelming succession of tragedies, life has finally, mercifully ended for Orlene, once-mortal daughter of Gaea.

Joined in Afterlife by Jolie - her protector and the sometime consort of Satan himself - together they seek out a third: Vita, a very contemporary mortal with troubles, attractions, and an unsettling moral code uniquely her own.

An extraordinary triumvirate, they embark on a great quest to reawaken the Incarnation of Good in a world where evil reigns - facing challenges that will test the very fiber of their beings with trials as numerous, as mysterious, and as devastating as the Incarnations themselves.

IN THE CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT OF INCARNATIONS OF IMMORTALITY, PIERS ANTHONY WEAVES A PLAYFUL, PROVOCATIVE, AND STUNNING TALE OF MORALITY, MAGIC, AND GRAND ADVENTURE.

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3 2023 Apoca Lips
Magic of Xanth #47
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4 1968 Battle Circle
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AMERICA RISING FROM THE ASHES
OF ITS FINAL DESTRUCTION...


Here is Piers Anthony's epic trilogy... the brilliant, riveting tale of the savage struggle for empire and diminance in primitive postcataclysmic America.

SOS THE ROPE

The kill spirits of the blast were retreating and Sos was pledged to begin an empire, to build a dream - the same dream which had been built so many times, eons ago.

VAR THE STICK

Var was the chosen one - half man, half animal, a mutant victim of the blast - called upon to rescue the Empire in a battle he was secretly afraid of winning.

NEQ THE SWORD

An age of darkness was upon the Empire and Neq, the greatest of warriors, was emarked on a quest that would decide the future of the world!

"SUPURB...  In prose as sharp as a nomad's sword, Anthony writes of the price of heroism, the power of love, the futility of vengeance."  Science Fiction Review
5 1984 1999 Bearing an Hourglass
Incarnations of Immortality #2
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THE MAN WHO LIVED BACKWARD

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.

The other seemingly all-powerful Incarnations of Immortality - Death, Fate, War, and Nature - made him welcome.  Even Satan greeted him with gifts.  But he soon discovered that the gifts were cunning traps.  While he had been distracted, he had become enmeshed in a complex scheme of the Evil One to destroy all that was good.

In the end, armed only with the Hourglass, Norton was forced to confront the immense power of Satan directly.  And though Satan banished him to Hell, he was resolved to fight on.

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, THOUGHT-PROVOKING STUDY OF GOOD AND EVIL.
6 1987 1999 Being a Green Mother
Incarnations of Immortality #5
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THE GIFT AND THE CURSE

Orb had a rare gift - the magic which manifested whenever she sang or played her harp.  No one could resist her music.  But greater magic than Orb's lay in the Llano, the mystic music that controlled all things.  The quest for the Llano occupied Orb's life.

Then she me Natasha.  He was handsome, charming - and an even finer musician than she.  Natasha began teaching Orb the music of the Llano, and she found herself falling in love with him.

Then Orb's mother Niobe came as an aspect of Fate, bearing the news that Orb was chosen for the role of the Incarnation of Nature - the Green Mother.  And Niobe warned Orb of the prophecy made years before - that Orb was to marry Evil.  Could she be sure that Natasha was not really Satan, the Master of Illusion, laying a trap for her?

HERE IN THIS BRILLIANT FIFTH VOLUME OF THE INCARNATIONS OF IMMORTALITY, PIERS ANTHONY BRINGS HIS SERIES TO A SUSPENSE-FILLED PEAK.

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7 1981 1983 Blue Adept
Apprentice Adept #2
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DOUBLE DESTINY

For Stile, life was a matter of shuttling madly between two worlds, with the problems growing greater on each.  On the science world of Proton, he was a serf trying to prove his right to exist by competing in the Great Games.  On Phaze, where only magic worked, he was the Blue Adept, trying to master the powers of sorcery.  And on both worlds, someone was trying to assassinate him.

Aside from winning increasingly difficult contests with no time to prepare, all he had to do was win the love of the Lady Blue, fight a dragon, discover the ultimate weapon - and, of course, seek the paranoid Adept or the all-powerful Citizen who was trying to kill him!

And now, just when things were growing impossible, he had to fight a mortal duel with the unicorn Herd Leader, against whom his magic powers were useless!

IN THIS BILLIANT CONTINUATION OF THE EPIC ADVENTURE THAT BEGAN IN SPLIT INFINITY, PIERS ANTHONY AGAIN PROVES HIMSELF A MASTER OF BOTH FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION.

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8 2013 Board Stiff
Magic of Xanth #38
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9 1979 1980 Castle Roogna
Magic of Xanth #3
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ONCE UPON A PAST


Millie had been a ghost for 800 years.  But now, restored by the magic of Xanth, she was again a maddeningly desirable woman.  She could have had any man she wanted... except the one she did want, Jonathan the zombie.  To grant Millie her desire, and to prove his right to rule Xanth in the future, young Magician Dor embarked on a quest for the elixir which would restore Jonathan to full life.

But the potion could be found only in the past... so, through a magic tapestry, to the past he went, taking over the body of a barbarian warrior.  The first person he encountered there was Jumper, a giant spider - a nightmare monster, but a staunch friend and much-needed ally in peril-haunted, ancient Xanth.

Then Dor met Millie - 800 years younger, but just as lovely.  And her realized that, in this new body, he was no longer twelve years old...

THE MAGIC OF
XANTH

AN ENCHANTING NEW FANTASY TRILOGY

VOLUME ONE: A SPELL FOR CHAMELEON
VOLUME TWO: THE SOURCE OF MAGIC
VOLUME THREE: CASTLE ROOGNA

- AVAILABLE FROM DEL REY BOOKS -
10 1981 1983 Centaur Aisle
Magic of Xanth #4
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INTO DARKEST
MUNDANIA


Dor was having troubles growing up to be the next Magician-King of the magic Land of Xanth.  He wanted no part in running the Kingdom.  But now Good King Trent was leaving on a trade mission to non-magical Mundania, home of such weird beasts as horses and bears, so Dor had to take over as King for a week.

A week passes. No Trent.  Then three weeks.  King Trent sill hadn't returned.  Surely, something terrible had happened; he was apparently held captive in some foul dungeon, unable to escape.  Dor was left with the burden of ruling - and with Irene, who was entirely too willing to be his Queen!

His only hope was to enter Mundania and free King Trent.  But how could it be done without the powers of magic?  Nevertheless, he started forth bravely - together with Irene, a golem, a centaur, and a young ogre - heading for the far South of Xanth.

The entrance to Mundania, of course, lay to the north.

FIRST PUBLICATION ANYWHERE

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A SPELL FOR CHAMELEON
THE SOURCE OF MAGIC
CASTLE ROOGNA
- All available from Del Rey Books -
11 1978 1982 Chaining the Lady
Cluster #2
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Ten centuries after the War of Energy, Melody of Mintaka - daughter of Flint the Caveman - assumes the forms of alien and animal, male and female, to bring victory to the people of Cluster against the Adromedan spacefleet.  But first she must endure untold humiliation...
THE MISTRESS OF
SPACE IS ENSLAVED!
12 1993 1995 Chaos Mode
Mode #3
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"FRESH, IMAGINATIVE... SKILLFUL, ENJOYABLE!"  - Publishers Weekly

"A FANTASY TIME-TUNNEL!"  -Kirkus Reviews


The thirs chapter in the Mode saga reunites some old friends... Colene, the young woman from Earth grappling with terrible suicidal depressions... Darius, the king from another planet who won her love... and Seqiro, the telepathic horse who shares their incredible journeys.  Together they travel a shimmering path between parallel universes that are both wondrous and dangerous.

CHAOS MODE

Now Colene and her friends are embarking on their most daunting adventure yet.  Going with them is a strange new friend named Burgess - a tentacled alien unlike any known.  They're all heading back to Earth, where Colene can make peace with her estranged parents.  And put to rest the childhood events that have been haunting her soul for a very long time...

"PIERS ANTHONY (IS) ALWAYS ENTERTAINING!"  - Rave Reviews
13 1990 2023 Chimaera's Copper
Kelvin of Rud #3
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The Prophecy of Mouvar is at work in the Seven Kingdoms, and in the Worlds of the many Frames.

As a young man, Kelvin Knight Hackleberry proved to be the Roundear of the Prophecy: he liberated his ownKingdom of Rud from the cruel usurper Zoanna, and then went on the defeat the evil King Rowforth in the alternate world of Rud.

But now Zoanna and Rowforth have joined forces to take revenge on Kelvin - and they intend to have it through his unborn child.  Kelvin's beloved Heln lies helpless in the prison Zoanna and Rowforth have built for her, while Klevin is trapped in a distant Frame World, a captive of the dread Chimaera.

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DRAGON'S GOLD


"Goos quest fantasy in a traditional mode... one of the better examples of its type."  - S.F. Chronicle

"Action, character development, and romance blend nicely in this captivating tale that will appeal to fantasy fans."  - Kliatt

"Anthony has long been one of the best fantasy writers when it comes to mining good and evil in his most interesting characters, with the proportions varying with perspective.  'Chimeara's Copper' is no exception."  - Pittsburgh Press
14 1967 Chthon
Aton Series #1
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IN THE GARNET CAVES

Aton, child of the sun, was condemned to the ruby-dark mines of Chthon - prison planet, underground world, from which there was no escape.  His crime?  He loved a minionette.

These half-legendary creatures were feared and loathed on all the worlds of mankind - but none would say why.

There was no escape from Chthon - neither from Chthon the labrynthine planet, nor from Chthon the superhuman intelligence that penetrated the minds of all who lived there.  But the minionette called, and Aton would respond....
15 1977 1982 Cluster
Cluster #1
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From the regions of Outworld to the land of the Canopians and beyond - through the distant reaches of time and space and the vast spectrum of Kirlian apparitions - Flint the Caveman is master and slave, conqueror and hero, slayer primeval and seducer triumphant...

FLINT
OF OUTWORLD
HAS COME!
16 1992 1993 The Color of Her Panties
Magic of Xanth #15
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WE SEE ENGLAND, WE SEE XANTH,
WE SEE MELA'S UNDERPANTS


In fact, Gwenny Goblin, Che Centaur and Jenny Elf are just about the only creatures on Xanth who have been spared the sight of Mela Merwoman's undergarments - preoccupied as they are with helping Gwenny beat out her awful half-brother Gobble for chiefship of the goblin horde.  But first they must master space and thyme... and find the fabulous egg that sits between the Roc and the hard place.  While Mela - who would gladly relinquish her oft-viewed undies for a new husband - joins they Adult Conspiracy... and quickly discovers the power of a perfect pair of panties!
17 1984 1985 Crewel Lye
Magic of Xanth #8
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A KNIGHT OF GHOSTS AND SHADOWS

Jordan was a ghost in Castle Roogna now, spending his time with little five-year-old Ivy and watching his own past unfold on the magic tapestry.  But once he had been a valorous knight, riding his ghost horse Pook on a fabulous and dangerous mission.

He had been betrayed with a cruel lie by two wily magicians and the woman he loved.  He had been killed in the end, and his bones had been scattered.  Now he could not even remember where they had been buried.

That was important, because Jordan's talent had been to recover from almost any injury, provided enough of his body could be assembled to grow together again.  But all that had been four hundred years before.  Nobody who was alive today knew or cared where his bones might be.

It was hardly the proper ending for a gallant adventure!

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18 2003 Cube Route
Magic of Xanth #27
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19 2004 Currant Events
Magic of Xanth #28
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20 2000 The Dastard
Magic of Xanth #24
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21 1993 2006 Demons Don't Dream
Magic of Xanth #16
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PIERS ANTHONY RETURNS TO THE MAGICAL REALM OF XANTH WITH THE MOST EXCITING ADVENTURE OF THEM ALL!

Beloved by millions of readers around the world, Piers Anthony's Xanth novels are among the most popular fatasy adventures ever published.  DEMONS DON'T DREAM begins a thrilling new Xanth sequence, as a pair of young adventurers play for the highest stakes of all: the future of Xanth - and of Earth as well!

Drawn into Xanth by a harmless-looking computer game, two young people find themselves competing for a precious prize: Dug, who us beguiled by a beautiful serpent-princess, and Kim, who discovers her favorite fantasy realm has suddenly become frighteningly real.

In a desperate race against time, Dug and Kim battle their way across the wondrous, perilous land of Xanth, testing their courage against dozens of fearsome obstacles (and their wits against a host of outrageous puns!).  But when trechery, danger, and deceit place Xanth itself in peril, Dug and Kim learn that some things are more important than winning or losing.

A breathtaking, madcap quest filled with fearsome monsters and far-fetched fun, DEMONS DON'T DREAM is vintage Xanth, an unforgettable escapade from fantasy's most imaginative storyteller.

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22 2001 DoOon Mode
Mode #4
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DoOoN  MODE


Beyond the world we know them is a multiverse of Nodes where many strange realities interlock in an infinitely intricate pattern, and a perverse and deranged Emperor plays a deadly multidimensional game with human pawns as his slaves.

"The 'Mode' series proves Anthony's versatility, and offers thrilling entertainment to his large and devoted following." -Booklist


Now, with DoOon Mode, Piers Anthony at last delivers the breathtaking climax to this awesome saga.  Fearing the heroine Coleen's dawning power, the depraved Emperor Ddwng dispatches a terrible Mind Monster to assault her soul and bend her to his will.  To protect herself, and those she loves, Coleen must journey back
through many worlds to her own home on Earth, face her deepest and darkest fears, and draw the strength for a final confrontation to save the multherse from tyranny and domination.
23 1983 1986 Dragon on a Pedestal
Magic of Xanth #7
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,b>LOST IN THE
JUNGLES OF XANTH


There was trouble in Xanth again - all kinds of trouble in fact.

The Gap Dragon had escaped from the Gap and was ravaging across the land.  The forget-spell that had covered the Gap was breaking up into small forget-whorls that wandered about, giving amnesia to all they touched.  Good Magician Humphrey might have had the Answer, but he had overdosed on water from the Fountain of Youth and was only a helpless baby.

And Ivy, three-year-old daughter of King Dor and Queen Irene, was lost in the jungles south of the Gap.  While Irene sought her without much hope. Ivy was wondering further into danger, her memories erased by a passing forget-whorl.  Her path was leading her directly to where the Gap Dragon was seeking dinner.
24 1987 2023 Dragon's Gold
Kelvin of Rud #1
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DRAGON'S GOLD

A Roundear there Shall Surely be Born to be Strong, Raised to be Free Fighting Dragons in his Youth Leading Armies...


When Kelvin was a child, his mother read to him from the Book fo Prophecy and he asked what the poem meant.  Now he was about to learn.

The Kingdom of Rud languishes under the heel of a usurper, an evil sorcerer has taken the throne in the name of his wicked daughter.  Even deep in the forest, away from all power, people tremble and await the day of prophecy's fulfillment.  It cannot come too soon: Charlain and her children are soon to lose their home to the tax collector.

But Kevin and Jon have other plans.  They have found a dragon's territory, where scales of purest gold, shed by the dragon, lie free on the ground for anyone with courage, or innocence, to take.

And the words of Mouvar the prophet echo across Rud.
25 2013 Esrever Doom
Magic of Xanth #37
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26 1985 1990 Executive
Bio of a Space Tyrant #4
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DOOMED TO
A MADMAN'S HELL


He was shaping his times as no one before him dared, mercilessly scourging an entire planet of crime and corruption wherever he found them - and destroying anyone who stood in his way. Absolute dictator of the United States of Jupiter, Hope Hubris was destined to become the most hated and feared man of an era, a tyrant charged with countless heinous acts and sexual cruelties. Yet justice remained his fiercest passion.

Now to insure his goals, Hope would assume an alternate identity and become a rebel - the brilliant leader in a revolution dedicated to his own overthrow. To fulfill his dreams he would sacrifice love... and plunge headlong into madness...

EXECUTIVE
27 1997 Faun and Games
Magic of Xanth #21
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28 2019 Fire Sail
Magic of Xanth #42
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29 2014 Five Portraits
Magic of Xanth #39
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30 1988 1999 For Love of Evil
Incarnations of Immortality #6
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THE MAN WHO WOULD BE SATAN

Parry was a gifted musician and an apprentice in the arts of White Magic.  But his life of sweet promise went disastrously awry following the sudden, violent death of his beloved Jolie.

Led down the twisted path of wickedness and depravity by Lilah the harlot demoness, Parry thrived - first as a sorcerer, then as a monk, and finally as a feared inquisitor.

But it wasn't until his mortal flame was extinguished that Parry found his true calling - as the Incarnation of Evil.  And, at the gates of Hell, he prepared to wage war on the master himself - Lucifer, the dark Lord - with dominion over the infernal realms the ultimate prize!

IN THE REMARKABLE SIXTH NOVEL OF INCARNATIONS OF IMMORTALITY, PIERS ANTHONY WEAVES A SPELLBINDING TAPESTRY OF MAGIC, MORALITY, AND ADVENTURE, IN A GRIPPING BATTLE OF EVIL AGAINST EVIL.

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31 1992 1994 Fractal Mode
Mode #2
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"INTRIGUING.. WELL-WRITTEN."  - Publishers Weekly

"A FANTASY TIME TUNNEL...."  - Kirkus Reviews

Five special people are the anchor points to a path across parallel universes.  There is Darius, of the sympathetic magic... Nona, the ninth child of a ninth child... Seqiro, the telepathic horse... Provos, who remembers only the future... and Colene, the girl from Earth who learned that all dreams are possible.

FRACTAL MODE

Held captive in Nona's home universe, Colene and her friends must help fulfill a dangerous prophecy - that one day women will take the power of magic away from the cruel men who control it.  But first, Nona must cross the barrier to another universe... to that strange and unpredictable place called Earth.

"PIERS ANTHONY (IS) ALWAYS ENTERTAINING."  - Rave Reviews
32 1995 Geis of the Gargoyle
Magic of Xanth #18
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GEIS OF THE GARGOYLE

Since Xanth began, the gargoyles of that magical place have been under a magical compulsion to protect the purity of the Swan Knee River which flows into Xanth from drury Mundania.  But recently the pollution from the outside world has grown ever greater, and young Gary Gar, latest in a long line of gargolye guardians, is finding it ever more difficult to fulfill his responsibilities.

So Gary does what any sensible Xanth resident with a dire dilemma would do.  He goes to see Good Magician Humphrey, who sends him on a peculiar quest - to transform himself into human shape, tutor a precocious child with more than her share of wild magical talents, and find a philter which can restore the river to its pristine state.

"Fans of the author's trademark humor will relish this latest jaunt through the wacky world of Xanth; new readers too will enjoy the fun."  - Publishers Weekly

"Another of Piers Anthony's frothy and delightfully fivolous fantasy novels about the land of Xanth, where puns and playfulness reign supreme."  - The Toronto Star
33 1986 1995 Ghost
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GHOST
WELCOME HOME,
SPACER...


Starship Captain Shetland feels like a ghost on his own planet: Earth is an energy starved madhouse of compulsory sex and forced interbreeding, where eating meat and casting shadows are felonies - and spacers are hated as power "wasters."  In fact, Shetland's life is dedicated to finding new energy for Earth - a search that takes him into deepest space.

And deepest time.

For Shetland is commander of the Meg II, a time-ship assigned to explore the void beyond the universe.  What Shetland and his crew find are - ghosts.  First the ghost of the ship's dead chemist.  Then ghosts of dead planets, dead stars, dead nebulae.  A galaxy sized black hole - the ghost of a cosmos, the ghost of all reality... and beyond it, beyond the specter of Time...

The most powerful, terrifying, malignant ghost of all...

A Tom Doherty
Associates, Inc. Book
34 2017 Ghost Writer in the Sky
Magic of Xanth #41
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35 1986 1987 Golem In the Gears
Magic of Xanth #9
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A GOLEM
TO THE RESCUE


Grundy Golem was the size of an inconsequence, and nobody had any respect for him - including Grundy!  To prove himself, he volunteered to ride the Monster Under the Bed to the Ivory Tower to find little Ivy's long lost dragon, Stanley Steamer.

After many adventures, he reached the Tower to learn that the Evil Sea Hag kept lovely Rapunzel imprisoned there, her body destined to be used to maintain the witch's immortality.  Grundy managed to free the damsel, and they fled together.

As the descendant of Jordan the Barbarian and Bluebell Elf, Rapunzel could become any size, even that of any Golem's dreamgirl.  But Grundy knew she was surely fated for someone better than he.  Besides, the Sea Hag still pursued them to destroy him and get her back.

And he still hadn't found Stanley Steamer.

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36 1994 2006 Harpy Thyme
Magic of Xanth #17
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Leave Mundania.
Enter the fabulous, wonder-filled
Land of Xanth


Gloha is the only creature of her kind in all the world of Xanth, the beautiful offspring of a chance mating between a harpy and a goblin.  As she grew to womanhood, she wondered where she would find the one true love with whom she could share her life.

So, naturally, she sets off to find the Good Magician Humphrey to ask him for an Answer to the riddle of her heart's desire.  But Humphrey, for mysterious reasons of his own, propels her instead on a perilous quest in search of truth, friendship, and, just possibly, happiness.

"Fans of the author's trademark humor will relish [Harpy Thyme], the latest jount through the wacky world of Xanth; new readers too will enjoy the fun."
- Publishers Weekly

"Harpy Thyme is another of Piers Anthony's frothy and delightfully frivolous fantasy novels about the land of Xanth, where puns and playfulness reign supreme."
- The Toronto Star
37 1988 1989 Heaven Cent
Magic of Xanth #11
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SECOND IN THE THRILLING
NEW XANTH TRILOGY!
ELEVENTH IN THE SERIES!

A BOY'S
FABULOUS
QUEST


To Xanth's precious shape-shifter Prince Dolph, searching for Humphrey, the missing sorcerer, is a perfect chance to see the world.  Setting off with his faithful companion Marrow, and enchanted skeleton, he will penetrate the island of illusion... escape a goblin kingdom... outwit a husband hungry mermaid... nest-sit for fiery dragons... and find romance with a slinky snake princess - all on his way to doscovering a magic coin with the answers!
38 2002 Iron Maiden
Bio of a Space Tyrant #6
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39 2016 Isis Orb
Magic of Xanth #40
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40 1990 1992 Isle of View
Magic of Xanth #13
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LOVELORN
LOVEWORN LOVE LOST


Perplexed Prince Dolph, Xanth's precocious shapeshifter, should be in love but isn't.  Nonetheless, he must choose between two fiancees - Nada the uninterested and Electra the uninteresting - or all three of them will suffer the most dire of consequences.  Luckily a convenient catastrophe has popped up to distract Dolph from his dilemma - the foal-napping of young Che Centaur by golblins.  And the only one who knows were Che is is a nice but remarkably naive elflike girl named Jenny from the World of Two Moons.  If anyone can save the missing centaur... she sure can't!

ISLE OF VIEW

THE THRILLING NEW XANTH ADVENTURE!

AND DON'T MISS
VALE OF THE VOLE
HEAVEN CENT
MAN FROM MUNDANIA
41 2020 Jest Right
Magic of Xanth #43
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42 2009 Jumper Cable
Magic of Xanth #33
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43 1982 1983 Juxtaposition
Apprentice Adept #3
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OUT OF PHAZE

Stile had problems - two whole worlds of problems, in fact.

On Proton, a world of future science, his murder was averted only by the help of a lovely robot, who sent him through an invisible "curtain" to Phaze, an alternate world ruled by magic.  There he found he was the double of the sorcerer, the Blue Adept, who had been mysteriously murdered.  And the assassin was after Style!

To survive, Stile has to master magic, fight a dragon, win the friendship of a lady unicorn, locate his enemy among the paranoid Adepts, and return out of Phaze to win the Great Games on Proton.  After that, he was ready to race the real problems!

The infallible Oracle was suddenly involved in the conspiracy against him.  The two worlds were out of balance and heading for disaster.  Stile was somehow supposed to take over the job of saving them or go down to total destruction with all he loved, he had to act and act quickly - with no idea of what he was supposed to do.

IN THIS BILLIANTLY SATISFYING CONCLUSION TO THE EPIC ADVENTURE BEGUN IN SPLIT INFINITY AND CONTINUED IN BLUE ADEPT, PIERS ANTHONY AGAIN PROVES HIMSELF A MASTER OF BOTH SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY.

FIRST PAPERBACK PUBLICATION

THE APPRENTICE ADEPT
BOOK ONE: SPLIT INFINITY
BOOK TWO: BLUE ADEPT
BOOK THREE: JUXTAPOSITION
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44 1978 1982 Kirlian Quest
Cluster #3
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45 2010 Knot Gneiss
Magic of Xanth #34
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46 2012 Luck of the Draw
Magic of Xanth #36
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47 1969 1983 Macroscope
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EXISTENCE
IS FULL OF
A
NUMBER
OF
THINGS...


many of them wondrous indeed - and these are the things of this novel.

First among them is the Macroscope - a doorway that leads to all time and all space, and confronts the four who dare enter with challenges mankind has never dreamed of.

Among the things the travelers find is a place so unthinkingly distant in space and time that it may in fact be at the other end of the continuum - within us - a place where ancient symbols come to life and battle with the souls of men.

And perhaps most wondrous of all in the crowded, adventurous universe of this novel, a boy becomes a man; a spirited girl achieves womanhood; a man's deepest beleifs are vindicated; and a woman finds a purpose for being....
48 1989 1990 Man from Mundania
Magic of Xanth #12
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THE QUEST CONTINUES

There's nothing more exciting than a Quest, especially for a young princess of Xanth who's bored with sitting around Castle Roogna.  But when Ivy uses the Heaven Cent, it takes her not to the top of Mount Rushmost, where the winged monsters gather, not to the sea where the merfolk swim - but to Mundania, a boring world (much like our own), where she meets a young college student so dull that he doesn't even believe in magic, or princesses, or Xanth!

Does he ever have a lot to learn!

THE THRILLING CLIMAX TO
THE NEWEST XANTH TRILOGY!

DON'T MISS
VALE OF THE VOLE
HEAVEN CENT
49 1984 1990 Mercenary
Bio of a Space Tyrant #2
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SCOURGE OF THE ECLIPTIC


He was driven by violent injustice from his home moon of Callisto - and set forth to claim the epic destiny that would blaze across worlds and time. He saw his family destroyed, his sister carried off into sexual slavery, his beautiful lover killed - and he swore revenge against the murderous pirates who held the Jupiter planetoids in a stranglehold of terror.

Fired by raw courage, steeled by young might, he rose in the Navy of Jupiter to command a personal squadron loyal to the death. And it was death they faced - against piratical warlords of the Jupiter Ecliptic who laughed at the young commander’s challenge… until they met the merciless fury of the warrior who would annihilate all obstacles in his path to immortal renown as the

TYRANT OF JUPITER!
50 1992 2023 Mouvar's Magic
Kelvin of Rud #5
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The Prophecy of Mouvar fulfilled


The mysterious prophecy that has shaped the life of Kelvin Knight Hackleberry and his family seems nearly to have run its course. The Two Kingdoms that were joined by Kelvin to form Kelvinia have now been united with three others, to make a great confederation under the rule of the young twin kings, Kildom and Kildee. Kelvin has earned some time to rest with his family. Charles and Merlain are now twenty years old, and so is Dragon Horace, their brother who is the Great King of all the land.

But the clouds of the last battle are gathering. The evil Professor DeVale and his witch servant Zady had been foiled in their attempt to destroy Kelvin by using his children- - their evil plot has led to a stronger, more peaceful land under its rightful rulers. Now they will try one last time to pervert all that is good in the universe of the frames - and although the Prophecy of Mouvar has been accurate up to now, still there is a chance that evil will prevail.






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