Xanth · Book 31

Air Apparent

by Piers Anthony

Published
1 January 2007
Pages
316
ISBN-13
9780765304100
Type
novel

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Cover of Air Apparent

About this book

Air Apparent, published 2007, is part of the long Xanth run that grew increasingly reliant on pun-based humor and reader-submitted wordplay -- a hallmark of Piers Anthony's engagement with his fan base -- while still resolving its own quest by the final page. It runs 316 pages.

Its place in Xanth

Air Apparent is book 31 in the Xanth series. It follows Stork Naked. It is followed by Two to the Fifth. 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…

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