Xanth · Book 47
Apoca Lips
- Published
- 1 January 2023
- Pages
- 200
- ISBN-13
- 9781504066938
- Type
- novel
About this book
Apoca Lips, published 2023, 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 200 pages.
Its place in Xanth
Apoca Lips is book 47 in the Xanth series. It follows Six Crystal Princesses. It is followed by Three Novel Nymphs. 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 9781504066938