Xanth · Book 38
Board Stiff
- Published
- 1 January 2013
- Pages
- 284
- ISBN-13
- 9781504005548
- Type
- novel
About this book
Following Esrever Doom, Board Stiff came out in 2013 as Xanth book 38, another self-contained trip through Piers Anthony's magical peninsula where a character's talent, once discovered, tends to shape the whole quest. It runs 284 pages.
Its place in Xanth
Board Stiff is book 38 in the Xanth series. It follows Esrever Doom. It is followed by Five Portraits. 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 9781504005548