Xanth · Book 2
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.
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