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.
Key facts about Golem in the Gears
Piers Anthony wrote Golem in the Gears, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1986. The book has 262 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780345418579 to find the main one.
Golem in the Gears is book 9 of 49 in the Xanth series. The series has 48 published books. However, the series starts with A Spell for Chameleon (1977).
Additionally, Piers Anthony writes Battle Circle, Of Man and Manta and Jason Striker, plus 11 more series. Those series sit on our science fiction, action thriller and fantasy shelves. Meanwhile, Three Novel Nymphs is the latest published Piers Anthony book on file, from 2025.
About Piers Anthony
Piers Anthony is a prolific British-born American author best known for Xanth, his long-running comic fantasy series built around magical puns and wordplay, which has run to more than forty novels since 1977. See every Piers Anthony book in order.
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