Xanth · Book 1
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.
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