Xanth · Book 40

Isis Orb

Published
1 January 2016
Pages
289
ISBN-13
9781504036313
Type
novel
Cover of Isis Orb

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.

Key facts about Isis Orb

Isis Orb is a novel by Piers Anthony. Readers have had it since 2016. It runs to 289 pages.

Our list holds 1 edition of Isis Orb. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781504036313 to find the main one.

Isis Orb is book 40 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

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…

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