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Up in a Heavel (Xanth)
Series: Xanth
Volume: 26
Genre: Fantasy
ISBN: 0312869045
Pages: 352 pages
Publisher: TOR
Price: $24.95
Reader Rating: 8 out of 10
Votes: 4
Up in a Heavel by Piers Anthony

Description: It might have been the merest chance that brought Umlaut to Castle Zombie that morning and launched him on a harrowing adventure. An unassuming young man with a uncanny knack for attracting lovely young ladies and an uncommon talent for emulating anyone he wished, Umlaut was forced to flee a flock of overly friendly females by disguising himself as a Zombie girl. In his haste to find a hiding place, he found himself face-to-face with a dreadful dragon and feared he would soon meet his end. But in Xanth, things are seldom exactly as they seem, and he soon discovered that the dragon was really a sinuous female sea serpent named Sesame, with a gift similar to his own, who had become accidentally entrapped in the Castle's dungeon.

When the two happen upon a packet of mail from Earth delivered by mischance to the Zombie King, they inadvertently set in motion a sinister scheme that could spell the end of Xanth. A letter they forward to the Demon Jupiter unexpectedly enrages him, causing him to send his own Red Spot hurtling toward Xanth. Soon everything is up in a heaval, for no one knows how to avert this interplanetary peril. Even the Good Magician Humfrey is baffled, for some strange force has obscured the future. In desperation, he instructs Umlaut and Sesame to deliver the remaining letters to their far-flung recipients, in the faint hope that this may somehow stop the Spot.

As they set out on their appointed rounds, Umlaut and Sesame are soon joined by two feline friends, Jenny Elf's companion, Sammy Cat, and a lovely, prescient creature named Claire Voyant who can sometimes see the future.

Also in this series are Encyclopedia of Xanth, The Quest for Magic, Two to the Fifth, Visual Guide To Xanth, A Spell for Chameleon, The Source of Magic, Castle Roogna, Centaur Aisle, Ogre, Ogre, Night Mare, Dragon on a Pedestal, Crewel Lye, Golem in the Gears, Vale of the Vole, Heaven Cent, Man from Mundania, Isle of View, Question Quest, The Color of Her Panties, Demons Don't Dream, Harpy Thyme, Geis of the Gargoyle, Roc and a Hard Place, Yon Ill Wind, Faun and Games, Zombie Lover, Xone of Contention, The Dastard, Swell Foop, Cube Route, Currant Events, Pet Peeve, Stork Naked, Air Apparent Return to the Piers Anthony page.

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