Demons Don't Dream

Piers Anthony

Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 1993 - Fiction - 304 pages

"TYPE A:\XANTH - TOUCH ENTER.
"He inserted the disk, typed the mysterious word, and touched ENTER. There was a momentary swirl on the screen. Then a little man appeared, almost a cartoon figure. The figure looked at Dug and spoke. His words appeared in type in a speech balloon above his head. 'Hi I'm Grundy Golem. I'm from the Land of Xanth.'"
Dug thought that the computer disk he got from his friend Ed 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 started to play.
Within minutes he was hooked on the game. And only moments after that, 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 computer simulation. 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.
Along with Kim, another Mundane Player, Dug must make his way through the perils of Xanth on a Quest that will become more and more real as time passes, and they are drawn into a conflict between the Demon E(A/R)[superscript TH] and Demon X(A/N)[superscript TH] that wants to run the World of Xanth as well as the Game of Xanth.

What people are saying

Review: Demons Don't Dream (Xanth #16)

User Review  - Samara - Goodreads

You have to take Xanth novels collectively because they're all very similar. Full of neat characters, puns and imagery, they all sort of mesh together in your head. One is not necessarily better than the other, they're all just...Xanth.

Review: Demons Don't Dream (Xanth #16)

User Review  - D. Sarah - Goodreads

Dug and Kim are sucked into fantasy-world Xanth through a video game. This story is full of adventure, puns, and danger! What kid wouldn't enjoy this book? I read this as a 6th grader, and read it ...

About the author

Piers Anthony was born in August, 1934, in Oxford, England. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States and attended Goddard College and the University of South Florida. He served in the U.S. Army from 1957-1959. In 1977, he received a British Fantasy Award for A Spell for a Chameleon. Highly popular because of his science fiction and fantasy works, Anthony is also known for the Jason Striker series and martial arts novels co-written with Roberto Fuentes. A highly prolific author, Anthony's other works include Bio of a Space Tyrant, Cluster, and the Omnivore series. Anthony makes his home in Tampa, Florida. He also writes under the pseudonym Robert Piers.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Demons Don't Dream; Volume 16 of Magic of Xanth, Piers Anthony; Volume 16 of Xanth Series; Issue 16 of Xanth, Piers Anthony
• Author: Piers Anthony
• Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 1993
• ISBN: 0312853890, 9780312853891
• Length: 304 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Fantasy / General