Xanth · Book 26

Up in a Heaval

Published
1 January 2002
Pages
350
ISBN-13
9781250238719
Type
novel
Cover of Up in a Heaval

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.

Key facts about Up in a Heaval

Up in a Heaval is a novel by Piers Anthony. Readers have had it since 2002. It runs to 350 pages.

Our list holds 1 edition of Up in a Heaval. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781250238719 to find the main one.

Up in a Heaval is book 26 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

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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