Xanth by Two: Demons Don't Dream and Harpy Thyme

Xanth #16-17

by Piers Anthony

Demons Don't Dream begins a Xanth sequence as young adventures play for the highest stakes of the future of Xanth--and of Earth as well!

Dug thought that the disk he got from his friend was just a fantasy game. He didn't particularly like fantasy games, but he'd made a bet with Ed, and a bet's a bet. So he loaded the game and…

Within moments he had left Mundania and was standing in a forest glade in Xanth, with his Companion in Adventure Nada Naga -- a beautiful Princess who just happened to be a shape-changing serpent. For a long time Dug thought that this was just an incredibly convincing virtual world. Then he began to believe in Magic. Which was a good thing, because the prize in this Game is the Power of Magic in Xanth.

In the next installment, Harpy Thyme , Gloha must brave a demoness and snow dragons, malevolent clouds and musical volcanoes, on a wild odyssey that takes her not only across the length and breadth of Xanth, but on journeys through Time, Space, and the perilous realms of Madness and Mundanity.

Two Piers Anthony's Xanth novels in a single Twice the magic, twice the adventure – Xanth By Two .

Genres: Fantasy, Humor, Fiction, Science Fiction, Magic

528 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Though he spent the first four years of his life in England, Piers never returned to live in his country of birth after moving to Spain and immigrated to America at age six. After graduating with a B.A. from Goddard College, he married one of his fellow students and and spent fifteen years in an assortment of professions before he began writing fiction full-time.

Piers is a self-proclaimed environmentalist and lives on a tree farm in Florida with his wife. They have two grown daughters.

Reviews

[358785antonio · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very cool, would recommend. It is 1993 and dug is in his room when his friend bets him he would like a computer game called “champions of xanth”, he is reluctant but then plays, he then gets SUCKed into the “game” and into the real world of xanth. This book has a lot of creativity and I really liked it, read it for yourself, if you dare…

[Elisa Kay · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another great Xanth novel which asks you to refocus, believe in magic and open yourself to this amazing world.

[Anna Tan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Going to review this by the individual books:
Demons Don't Dream
Harpy Thyme

[Vance Merrill · Rating 5 out of 5]

So far this book is awesome, I like the different take on how Piers writes this, it always takes me by surprise how elaborate Xanth is and I love learning more about it every time I sit down and read his books.

[Alexandra Lowrance · Rating 2 out of 5]

Cool. Just not my thing so I couldn't even finish it.

[Abraham Ray · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read!