title: Quest for the Cube
author:  R.A. Frederick 
description: I was 18 when I wrote this book for my brother. He was having trouble finishing the books he was required to read during the summer and was getting extremely frustrated. I decided to have him put down the copy of Beowulf his teachers had assigned and read a couple of chapters of the short story I was writing. As the summer progressed, the chapters increased. By the time I finished the story, I had a written a novel.
zlib_text: **Cube Route**
  
  Xanth Book 27
  
  By Piers Anthony
  
    
  
  Table of Contents
  
   _Chapter 1: Rear View_
  
   _Chapter 2: Good Magician_
  
   _Chapter 3: Recruiting_
  
   _Chapter 4: Princesses_
  
   _Chapter 5: Dragon_
  
   _Chapter 6: Sidestepping_
  
   _Chapter 7: Thread_
  
   _Chapter 8: Exchange_
  
   _Chapter 9: Thanks_
  
   _Chapter 10: Nimby_
  
   _Chapter 11: Mooning_
  
   _Chapter 12: Tesseract_
  
   _Chapter 13: Amber Dawn_
  
   _Chapter 14: Inversion_
  
    
    
  
   **Chapter 1: Rear View**
  
  Looking back, as was natural in the circumstance, Cube concluded that it all
  started with the rear-view mirror. What a complicated route, from such a minor
  trigger.
  
  She was out picking bubble gum from the bubble gum tree beyond the hay field
  when there was a swirl of smoke beside her. "What are you doing?" the smoke
  inquired.
  
  Startled, Cube gazed at it. "Talking smoke?"
  
  "That doesn't exactly answer my incertitude," the smoke said, forming a set of
  eyes.
  
  "Your what?"
  
  "Dubiousness, skepticism, suspicion, mistrust, uncertainty--"
  
  "Quest