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Xanth

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Xanth is a fantasy world created by author Piers Anthony for his Xanth series of novels, also known as The Magic of Xanth. [1]

91 relations: A Spell for Chameleon, Adult, Age of majority, Air Apparent, Caesar cipher, Castle Roogna, Censorship, Centaur, Centaur Aisle, Cheese, Child, Cipher, Companions of Xanth, Contact lens, Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yarn, Cross Florida Barge Canal, Cube Route, Currant Events, Demon, Demons Don't Dream, Dragon, Dragon on a Pedestal, Dream, Earth, Ellipsis, Fantasy world, Faun, Faun & Games, Florida Keys, Fruit, Fun, Gargoyle, Geis of the Gargoyle, Goblin, Golem, Golem in the Gears, Harpy, Harpy Thyme, Heaven Cent, Honey, Human sexuality, Isle of View, Jody Lynn Nye, Jumper Cable, Key (lock), Kissimmee River, Knot Gneiss, Lake Okeechobee, Lethe, Letters to Jenny, ..., Magic (supernatural), Man from Mundania, Man-eating tree, Memory, Merfolk, Moon, Nāga, Night Mare, Nymph, Ogre, Ogre, Ogre, Pet Peeve (novel), Piers Anthony, Profanity, Punic Wars, Question Quest, Roc and a Hard Place, Salon (website), Sexual reproduction, Soft drink, Stork Naked, Swell Foop, The Color of Her Panties, The Dastard, The Source of Magic, Thomas Bowdler, Tor Books, Trilogy, Two to the Fifth, Undergarment, Up in a Heaval, Vale of the Vole, Variety (magazine), Video game, Visual perception, Well-Tempered Clavicle, Xanth, Xone of Contention, Yon Ill Wind, Zombie, Zombie Lover. Expand index (41 more) »

A Spell for Chameleon

A Spell for Chameleon is a fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony, published in 1977 by Ballantine Books/Del Rey Books.

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Adult

Biologically, an adult is a human or other organism that has reached sexual maturity.

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Age of majority

The age of majority is the threshold of adulthood as recognized or declared in law.

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Air Apparent

Air Apparent is the thirty-first book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony, which was first mentioned in the "Author's Note" in Currant Events.

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Caesar cipher

E in the plaintext becomes B in the ciphertext.

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Castle Roogna

Castle Roogna is a fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony, the third book of the Xanth series.

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Censorship

Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient" as determined by government authorities.

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Centaur

A centaur (Κένταυρος, Kéntauros), or occasionally hippocentaur, is a mythological creature with the upper body of a human and the lower body and legs of a horse.

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Centaur Aisle

Centaur Aisle is the fourth book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.

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Cheese

Cheese is a dairy product derived from milk that is produced in a wide range of flavors, textures, and forms by coagulation of the milk protein casein.

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Child

Biologically, a child (plural: children) is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty.

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Cipher

In cryptography, a cipher (or cypher) is an algorithm for performing encryption or decryption—a series of well-defined steps that can be followed as a procedure.

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Companions of Xanth

Companions of Xanth is an adventure game published in 1993 by Legend Entertainment.

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Contact lens

A contact lens, or simply contact, is a thin lens placed directly on the surface of the eye.

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Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yarn

Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yarn is the eighth book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.

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Cross Florida Barge Canal

The Cross Florida Barge Canal, now officially the Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway is a protected green belt corridor, one mile (1.6 km) wide in most places.

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Cube Route

Cube Route is a fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony, the twenty-seventh book of the Xanth series.

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Currant Events

Currant Events is the twenty-eighth book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony, and the first book in the second Xanth trilogy.

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Demon

A demon (from Koine Greek δαιμόνιον daimónion) is a supernatural and often malevolent being prevalent in religion, occultism, literature, fiction, mythology and folklore.

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Demons Don't Dream

Demons Don't Dream is the sixteenth book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.

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Dragon

A dragon is a large, serpent-like legendary creature that appears in the folklore of many cultures around the world.

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Dragon on a Pedestal

Dragon on a Pedestal is the seventh book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.

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Dream

A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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Ellipsis

An ellipsis (plural ellipses; from the ἔλλειψις, élleipsis, 'omission' or 'falling short') is a series of dots (typically three, such as "…") that usually indicates an intentional omission of a word, sentence, or whole section from a text without altering its original meaning.

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Fantasy world

A fantasy world is a human conceived world created in fictional media, such as literature, film or games.

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Faun

The faun (φαῦνος, phaunos) is a mythological half human–half goat creature appearing in Ancient Rome.

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Faun & Games

Faun & Games is the twenty-first book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.

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Florida Keys

The Florida Keys are a coral cay archipelago located off the southern coast of Florida, forming the southernmost portion of the continental United States.

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Fruit

In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) formed from the ovary after flowering.

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Fun

Fun is the enjoyment of pleasure, particularly in leisure activities.

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Gargoyle

In architecture, a gargoyle is a carved or formed grotesque with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building, thereby preventing rainwater from running down masonry walls and eroding the mortar between.

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Geis of the Gargoyle

Geis of the Gargoyle is the eighteenth book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.

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Goblin

A goblin is a monstrous creature from European folklore, first attested in stories from the Middle Ages.

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Golem

In Jewish folklore, a golem (גולם) is an animated anthropomorphic being that is magically created entirely from inanimate matter (specifically clay or mud).

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Golem in the Gears

Golem in the Gears is the ninth book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.

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Harpy

In Greek mythology and Roman mythology, a harpy (plural harpies,, harpyia,; harpȳia) was a half-human and half-bird personification of storm winds, in Homeric poems.

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Harpy Thyme

Harpy Thyme is the seventeenth book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.

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Heaven Cent

Heaven Cent is the eleventh book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.

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Honey

Honey is a sweet, viscous food substance produced by bees and some related insects.

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Human sexuality

Human sexuality is the way people experience and express themselves sexually.

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Isle of View

Isle of View is a 1989 fantasy book, the thirteenth book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.

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Jody Lynn Nye

Jody Lynn Nye (born 1957 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American science fiction writer.

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Jumper Cable

Jumper Cable is the 33rd book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.

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Key (lock)

A key is a device that is used to operate a lock (such as to lock or unlock it).

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Kissimmee River

The Kissimmee River is a river in south-central Florida, United States.

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Knot Gneiss

Knot Gneiss is the 34th book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.

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Lake Okeechobee

Lake Okeechobee,, also known as Florida's Inland Sea, is the largest freshwater lake in the state of Florida.

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Lethe

In Greek mythology, Lethe (Greek: Λήθη, Lḗthē) was one of the five rivers of the underworld of Hades.

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Letters to Jenny

Letters to Jenny is a collection of letters written by Piers Anthony to Jenny Gildwarg, a 12-year-old girl who was run over by a drunk driver on December 9, 1988.

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Magic (supernatural)

Magic is a category in Western culture into which have been placed various beliefs and practices considered separate from both religion and science.

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Man from Mundania

Man from Mundania, the twelfth book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony, concludes the trilogy of Vale of the Vole and Heaven Cent.

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Man-eating tree

Man-eating tree can refer to any of the various legendary carnivorous plants large enough to kill and consume a person or other large animal.

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Memory

Memory is the faculty of the mind by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved.

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Merfolk

Merfolk or Merpeople may refer to mythical or fictional creatures.

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Moon

The Moon is an astronomical body that orbits planet Earth and is Earth's only permanent natural satellite.

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Nāga

Nāga (IAST: nāgá; Devanāgarī: नाग) is the Sanskrit and Pali word for a deity or class of entity or being taking the form of a very great snake, specifically the king cobra, found in the Indian religions of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.

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Night Mare

Night Mare is the sixth book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.

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Nymph

A nymph (νύμφη, nýmphē) in Greek and Latin mythology is a minor female nature deity typically associated with a particular location or landform.

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Ogre

An ogre (feminine: "ogress") is a legendary monster usually depicted as a large, hideous, man-like being that eats ordinary human beings, especially infants and children.

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Ogre, Ogre

Ogre, Ogre is the fifth book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.

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Pet Peeve (novel)

Pet Peeve is the twenty-ninth book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.

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Piers Anthony

Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob (born 6 August 1934 in Oxford, England) is an English American author in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony.

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Profanity

Profanity is socially offensive language, which may also be called swear words, curse words, cuss words, bad language, strong language, offensive language, crude language, coarse language, foul language, bad words, oaths, blasphemous language, vulgar language, lewd language, choice words, or expletives.

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Punic Wars

The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage from 264 BC to 146 BC.

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Question Quest

Question Quest is the fourteenth book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.

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Roc and a Hard Place

Roc and a Hard Place is the nineteenth book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.

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Salon (website)

Salon is an American news and opinion website, created by David Talbot in 1995 and currently owned by the Salon Media Group.

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Sexual reproduction

Sexual reproduction is a form of reproduction where two morphologically distinct types of specialized reproductive cells called gametes fuse together, involving a female's large ovum (or egg) and a male's smaller sperm.

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Soft drink

A soft drink (see terminology for other names) typically contains carbonated water (although some lemonades are not carbonated), a sweetener, and a natural or artificial flavoring.

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Stork Naked

Stork Naked is the thirtieth book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.

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Swell Foop

Swell Foop is fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony, the twenty-fifth book of the Xanth series.

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The Color of Her Panties

The Color of Her Panties is a fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony, the fifteenth book of the Xanth series.

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The Dastard

The Dastard is the twenty-fourth book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.

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The Source of Magic

The Source of Magic is a fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony, the second book of the Xanth series.

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Thomas Bowdler

Thomas Bowdler, LRCP, FRS (11 July 1754 – 24 February 1825) was an English physician best known for publishing The Family Shakspeare, an expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's work.

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Tor Books

Tor Books is the primary imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, a publishing company based in New York City.

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Trilogy

A trilogy (from Greek τρι- tri-, "three" and -λογία -logia, "discourse") is a set of three works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works.

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Two to the Fifth

Two to the Fifth is the 32nd book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.

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Undergarment

Undergarments are items of clothing worn beneath outer clothes, usually in direct contact with the skin, although they may comprise more than a single layer.

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Up in a Heaval

Up In A Heaval is a fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony, the twenty-sixth book of the Xanth series.

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Vale of the Vole

Vale of the Vole is the tenth book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Video game

A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor.

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Visual perception

Visual perception is the ability to interpret the surrounding environment using light in the visible spectrum reflected by the objects in the environment.

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Well-Tempered Clavicle

Well-Tempered Clavicle is the 35th book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.

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Xanth

Xanth is a fantasy world created by author Piers Anthony for his Xanth series of novels, also known as The Magic of Xanth.

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Xone of Contention

Xone of Contention is the twenty-third book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.

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Yon Ill Wind

Yon Ill Wind is the twentieth novel of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.

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Zombie

A zombie (Haitian French: zombi, zonbi) is a fictional undead being created through the reanimation of a human corpse.

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Zombie Lover

Zombie Lover is the twenty-second book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanth

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