Cube Route

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Cube Route
Cube Route cover.jpg
Author Piers Anthony
Cover artist Darrell K. Sweet
Carol Russo Design
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Fantasy
Publisher Tor Books
Publication date
October 2003
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages328 pp (hardcover 1st ed.)
ISBN 0-7653-4309-6
OCLC 56722923
Preceded by Up In A Heaval  
Followed by Currant Events  

Cube Route is a fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony, the twenty-seventh book of the Xanth series. [1]

Pangrammatic window

The shortest known published pangrammatic window, a stretch of naturally occurring text that contains all the letters in the alphabet, is found on page 98 of the 2004 First Mass Market Edition. The passage, which is 42 letters long (in boldface), reads: "We are all from Xanth," Cube said quickly. "Just visiting Phaze. We just want to find the dragon." [2]

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References

  1. Janet Husband; Jonathan F. Husband (2009). Sequels: An Annotated Guide to Novels in Series. American Library Association. p. 26. ISBN   978-0-8389-0967-6.
  2. Sean A. Irvine, "A 42-letter Pangrammatic Window" in Word Ways , 45, 313--316, 2012.