Xanth · Book 20

Yon Ill Wind

Published
1 January 1996
Pages
320
ISBN-13
9780340654255
Type
novel
Cover of Yon Ill Wind

About this book

The 20th Xanth novel, Yon Ill Wind appeared in 1996, continuing Piers Anthony's saga of the Human Being lineage and their neighbors navigating magic talents, quests, and the barrier that separates Xanth from mundane Mundania. It runs 320 pages.

Key facts about Yon Ill Wind

Yon Ill Wind is a novel by Piers Anthony. Readers have had it since 1996. It runs to 320 pages.

Our list holds 1 edition of Yon Ill Wind. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780340654255 to find the main one.

Yon Ill Wind is book 20 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

Yon Ill Wind is book 20 in the Xanth series. It follows Roc and a Hard Place. It is followed by Faun & Games. 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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