Xanth · Book 10
Vale of the Vole
- Published
- 1 January 1987
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN-13
- 9780613281218
- Type
- novel
About this book
Published in 1987, Vale of the Vole follows Golem in the Gears 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 304 pages.
Its place in Xanth
Vale of the Vole is book 10 in the Xanth series. It follows Golem in the Gears. It is followed by Heaven Cent. 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 9780613281218