Man from Mundania
By: by Piers Anthony.
Series: Xanth #12
Publisher: Avon Books
Published: October 1990
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780380752898
Subjects: Xanth (Imaginary place) -- Fiction
Genres: Fantasy fiction.
First sentence: Ivy woke, stretched, and opened her eyes.
Description: When college freshman Grey Murphy buys a computer program guaranteed to improve his life, it introduces him to Ivy, the lovely girl across the hall...whose only fault is her insistence that she comes from a magical land called Xanth.  But before long -- through the interference of the computer program, which is actually an extension of the evil machine Com Pewter -- Grey finds out his attractive neighbor is telling the truth.

Ivy is determined to return home to continue the search for the long-missing Good Magician Humfrey, and Grey agrees to help her.  However, justifiably disoriented in a place he can scarcely believe in, enamored of a sorcerous Princess yet unwilling to believe magic is real, Grey could very well become Com Pewter's tool in its bid to attain absolute power.