Ogre, Ogre
novel 1982 Xanth
Record
| First published | 1982 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | |
| Reader rating | 3.78 (17,666 ratings, collected 2026-08-25) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780345354921 |
| Internal chronology | 5 |
Synopsis
Smash, a half-ogre, visits the Good Magician Humfrey seeking an answer and is instructed to travel to the Ancestral Ogres while protecting Tandy, a half-nymph, for a year. Along the way he contracts a vine that makes him unexpectedly intelligent and gathers other young women to protect on the journey.
Where it sits
- Universe: Xanth
- Series: Xanth, the expanded sequence (books 4-18) ; position 2 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 2 of 15: previous Centaur Aisle (1981) · next Night Mare (1982)
- Internal chronology, within Xanth: position 5 of 33: previous Centaur Aisle (1981) · next Night Mare (1982)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Xanth
- Order of Books: Xanth
- FantasticFiction: Piers Anthony / Xanth
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogre,_Ogre
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