A Spell for Chameleon
- Published
- 1 January 1977
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN-13
- 9780345347534
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Spell for Chameleon launched Xanth in 1977: Piers Anthony's opening quest through the magical peninsula shaped like Florida, where every native has a unique magic talent and puns work as a kind of local magic in their own right -- the first of what would become a nearly five-decade, self-aware comic fantasy saga. It runs 352 pages.
Key facts about A Spell for Chameleon
Piers Anthony wrote A Spell for Chameleon, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1977. The book has 352 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780345347534 to find the main one.
A Spell for Chameleon is book 1 of 49 in the Xanth series. The series has 48 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
Additionally, Piers Anthony writes Battle Circle, Of Man and Manta and Jason Striker, plus 11 more series. Those series sit on our science fiction, action thriller and fantasy shelves. Meanwhile, Three Novel Nymphs is the latest published Piers Anthony book on file, from 2025.
About Piers Anthony
Piers Anthony is a prolific British-born American author best known for Xanth, his long-running comic fantasy series built around magical puns and wordplay, which has run to more than forty novels since 1977. See every Piers Anthony book in order.
Its place in Xanth
A Spell for Chameleon is book 1 in the Xanth series. It is followed by The Source of Magic. See the full Xanth reading order.
Xanth is a magical peninsula shaped like Florida, separated from the mundane, non-magical world (Mundania) by a barrier only a few can cross. Every native-born Xanthian has a unique magic talent, discovered around adolescence — anything from summoning storms to turning objects invisible to producing terrible puns out of thin air — and a great deal of the series' plot turns on characters discovering, hiding, or weaponizing their talents. Xanth's landscape is riddled with elemental spirits, centaurs, ogres…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780345347534