Xanth · Book 26

Up in a Heaval

by Piers Anthony

Published
1 January 2002
Pages
350
ISBN-13
9781250238719
Type
novel

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About this book

Published in 2002, Up in a Heaval follows Swell Foop 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 350 pages.

Its place in Xanth

Up in a Heaval is book 26 in the Xanth series. It follows Swell Foop. It is followed by Cube Route. 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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