''Cube Route'' is a
fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving magical elements, typically set in a fictional universe and sometimes inspired by mythology and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became fantasy literature and drama ...
novel by British-American writer
Piers Anthony
Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob (born 6 August 1934) is an American author in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony. He is best known for his long-running novel series set in the fictional realm of Xant ...
, the twenty-seventh book of the
Xanth series.
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
In typography, emphasis is the strengthening of words in a text with a font in a different style from the rest of the text, to highlight them. It is the equivalent of prosody stress in speech.
Methods and use
The most common methods in W ...
), reads: "We are all from Xanth," Cube said quickly. "Just visiting Phaze. We just want to find the dragon."
[Sean A. Irvine, "A 42-letter Pangrammatic Window" in '' Word Ways'', 45, 313--316, 2012.]
References
27
2003 American novels
Tor Books books
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