Xanth · Book 9
Golem in the Gears
- Published
- 1 January 1986
- Pages
- 262
- ISBN-13
- 9780345418579
- Type
- novel
About this book
Golem in the Gears is book 9 of Xanth, published in 1986, sending its cast through another self-contained quest across the pun-riddled magical peninsula that Piers Anthony built out of Florida's geography. It runs 262 pages.
Its place in Xanth
Golem in the Gears is book 9 in the Xanth series. It follows Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yarn. It is followed by Vale of the Vole. 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 9780345418579