Centaur Aisle
novel 1981 Xanth
Record
| First published | 1981 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | |
| Reader rating | 3.82 (19,849 ratings, collected 2026-08-25) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780345352460 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Synopsis
When King Trent fails to return from Mundania, young Dor must govern Xanth in his absence and gathers his companions to travel to Centaur Isle, where a magical centaur agrees to help them cross into the mundane world to find him.
Where it sits
- Universe: Xanth
- Series: Xanth, the expanded sequence (books 4-18) ; position 1 of 15 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Piers Anthony
Notes
- From the series record (Xanth, the expanded sequence (books 4-18)): Books 4 through 18 of Piers Anthony's Xanth sequence (1981-1994), catalogued as Expanded Canon; Core Canon remains just the original trilogy (1977-1979). The full sequence (through book 49) was completed in a later pass, 2026-08-21.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Xanth, the expanded sequence (books 4-18): position 1 of 15: next Ogre, Ogre (1982)
- Internal chronology, within Xanth: position 4 of 33: previous Castle Roogna (1979) · next Ogre, Ogre (1982)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Xanth
- Order of Books: Xanth
- FantasticFiction: Piers Anthony / Xanth
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaur_Aisle
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