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Xone of Contention - Piers Anthony

Description: ISBN 0812555236 / Author: Piers Anthony / Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Twenty-third novel in the Xanth Series.

Newest Review: ... And A Hard Place".) Guiding Pia and Ed round Xanth are Breanna of the Black Wave and her boyfriend Justin the (former) ... more

... Tree. Breanna is sweet sixteen and is straining against the restrictions of the dread Adult Conspiracy. Justin, on the other hand, is about 99 and, despite being recently restored to virile 19 year old manform, is a perfect old-fashioned gentleman. He refuses to "do" anything much with Breanna until she comes of age at 18. Pia, however, is a jaded mundane who has never been subject to the Adult Conspiracy and is quite happy to tell Breanna how to bend the rules. Meanwhile, over in Mundania, Kim and Dug Mu...more

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Xone of Contention - Piers Anthony: E(A/R)th Versus X(A/N)th (679 words)
by - written on 08/08/01 (Very useful, 35 readings)
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A fresh, modern approach is taken in this recent Xanth novel. This may turn off hardened Xanth fans but will surely be more comprehensible to new readers. To set the scene, Pia and Ed Mundane arrange to switch places with Chlorine and Nimby a.k.a. the Demon X(A/N)th. This allows Pia and Ed to visit Xanth as a sort of "second honeymoon" in an attempt to salvage their failing marriage. It also allows Chlorine and Nimby to visit Mundania, where Nimby can deal with the current challenge by the Demon E(A/R)th for mastery over their respective realms. (The Demon E(A/R)th rules dreary non-magical Mundania and the Demon X(A/N)th a.k.a. Nimby rules over magical ... Read the complete review

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