X90 Visual Guide to Xanth by Piers Anthony

Author:Piers Anthony [Anthony, Piers]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, General, Literary Criticism, Science Fiction & Fantasy, _EPUB by me, Contemporary, Fantasy Fiction; American, Xanth (Imaginary Place), Stories; Plots; Etc, Fantasy Fiction; American - Stories; Plots; Etc, Anthony; Piers - Settings
ISBN: 9780380757497
Google: -SK0HAAACAAJ
Amazon: 0380757494
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1989-11-01T05:00:00+00:00

THE

GOURD

n Xanth, one of the greatest and most subtle dangers is to accidentally look into the peephole of a hypnogourd, which grow in patches all over the land. These vegetables look completely harmless. A gourd resembles a Mundane butternut squash with an extra dimplelike hole on its upper surface. While the body lies helplessly staring into the peephole, the soul is swept into the world of the gourd, where it wanders lost, until someone covers the peephole. If you return to the gourd, you will always go back to the same place you left. If you are lost there, you will be lost again as soon as you return.

It seems impossible that an ordinary vegetable like a peephole gourd can contain a whole world, but that is the nature of things in Xanth. The most ordinary outside will conceal the most extraordinary inside. Within the rind are several different lands.

The gourd connects Xanth to Mundania via the No Name Key. Unlike the Isthmus, this one uses the gourd for access to the Mundane world, and does not modify the time scale. Night mares and storks make their way through the No Name Key. Turn Key is the Key Holder here.

The first face of the gourd most people see is the region of black-and-white horror scenes, complete to haunted house with shocking doorknob, chill drafts, and ghosts. The house is a horror in itself, with a moving staircase that throws one into an oubliette. The graveyard near the rind is full of skeletons who take great pride in their ability to scare the daylights out of visitors.

Brassilia, the City of the Brassies, is made of shiny gleaming brass. The city is enclosed by a gleaming wall with no perceptible entrance. The long golden streets are set symmetrically on either side with buildings of perfect squared angles and mirror-shiny surfaces, but no doors or windows. Brassilia seems deserted at first, unless you push the brass button set on a pedestal under the moon. The button sets off the klaxon alarm that stirs the city into motion. The metal buildings begin to slide around the landscape, changing location. They move at a tremendous speed, so it is wise to get out of the way.

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