Xanth · Book 40
Isis Orb
- Published
- 1 January 2016
- Pages
- 289
- ISBN-13
- 9781504036313
- Type
- novel
About this book
Isis Orb arrived in 2016, positioned between Five Portraits and Ghost Writer in the Sky in Piers Anthony's Xanth, where quests, prophecies, and the search for a spouse or a throne recur constantly across a truly enormous connected cast. It runs 289 pages.
Its place in Xanth
Isis Orb is book 40 in the Xanth series. It follows Five Portraits. It is followed by Ghost Writer in the Sky. 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 9781504036313