Xanth · Book 18
Geis of the Gargoyle
- Published
- 1 January 1995
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN-13
- 9780812534856
- Type
- novel
About this book
Published in 1995, Geis of the Gargoyle follows Harpy Thyme in the Xanth sequence, another entry in Piers Anthony's decades-spanning comic fantasy where every character's magic talent drives the plot and the title itself is a pun. It runs 352 pages.
Its place in Xanth
Geis of the Gargoyle is book 18 in the Xanth series. It follows Harpy Thyme. It is followed by Roc and a Hard Place. 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 9780812534856