Xanth · Book 7
Dragon on a Pedestal
- Published
- 1 January 1983
- Pages
- 306
- ISBN-13
- 9780345311078
- Type
- novel
About this book
Dragon on a Pedestal, published 1983, 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 306 pages.
Its place in Xanth
Dragon on a Pedestal is book 7 in the Xanth series. It follows Night Mare. It is followed by Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yarn. 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 9780345311078