Dragon on a Pedestal

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Random House Worlds, Mar 26, 2002 - Fiction - 320 pages
There is trouble in Xanth again—all kinds of trouble, in fact.

The Gap Dragon had escaped from the Gap and was ravaging across the land. The forget-spell that had covered the Gap was breaking up into small forget-whorls that wandered about, giving amnesia to all they touched. Good Magician Humfrey might have had the Answer, but he had overdosed on water from the Fountain of Youth and was only a helpless baby.

And Ivy, three-year-old daughter of King Dor and Queen Irene, as lost in the jungles south of the Gap. While Irene sought her without much hope, Ivy was wandering further into danger, her memories erased by a passing forget-whorl. Her path was leading her directly to where the Gap Dragon was seeking dinner.
 

Contents

Ivy League
1
Humfreys Horror
17
Yak Talk
35
Zora Zombie
41
Covenfree
57
Xanthippe
66
Hugo Award
80
Tisi Alec Meg
93
Dread Seeds
139
Glory Goblin
154
Hardy Harpy
173
Fire and Steam
198
Lady Gap
208
Wiggle Wiggle
220
Community Effort
228
Hero Dragon
240

Parnassus
108
Cyclopean Eye
130
Authors Note
249
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About the author (2002)

Piers Anthony, sometimes called Pier Xanthony, is the pseudonym of a Mundane character who was born in England in 1934, came to America in 1940, was naturalized in 1958, and moved to Xanth in 1977. His first story was published in 1963, and his first novel, Chthon, in 1967. His first Xanth novel, A Spell for Chameleon, won the August Derleth Fantasy Award as the best novel for 1977, and his fantasy novels began placing on the New York Times bestseller list with Ogre, Ogre. He shifted from writing in pencil to writing on the computer, and Golem in the Gears was his first novel created on the machine; naturally, the computer found its way into Xanth.

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