The Moment of the Magician
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Author | Alan Dean Foster |
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Cover artist | Romas Kukalis |
Language | English |
Genre | Fantasy |
Publisher | Phantasia Press |
Publication date | 1984 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (paperback) |
Pages | 320 |
ISBN | 0-932096-33-6 |
Preceded by | The Day of the Dissonance |
Followed by | The Paths of the Perambulator |
The Moment of the Magician (1984) is a fantasy novel by American writer Alan Dean Foster. The book follows the continuing adventures of Jonathan Thomas Meriweather who is transported from our world into a land of talking animals and magic. It is the fourth book in the Spellsinger series.
Plot introduction
[edit]The wizard Clothahump described the swamps of the south as "tropical, friendly, and largely uninhabited" when he sent Jon-Tom the Spellsinger and Mudge the Otter to investigate the rising power of a new magician, Marcus the Ineluctable. Along the way they encounter warring colonies of tough-talking prairie dogs, magical mime-vines, a mammoth mountain of living muck and a hidden colony of dreaded Plated Folk.
External links
[edit]- The Moment of the Magician title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Alan Dean Foster homepage