The Source of Magic
- Published
- 1 January 1979
- Pages
- 326
- ISBN-13
- 9780606026475
- Type
- novel
About this book
Published in 1979, The Source of Magic follows A Spell for Chameleon 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 326 pages.
Key facts about The Source of Magic
Piers Anthony wrote The Source of Magic, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1979. The book has 326 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780606026475 to find the main one.
The Source of Magic is book 2 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
The Source of Magic is book 2 in the Xanth series. It follows A Spell for Chameleon. It is followed by Castle Roogna. 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 9780606026475