Spellsinger
core novel 1983 Spellsinger
Record
| First published | 1983 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.86 (7,680 ratings, collected 2026-10-29) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780446903523 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Jonathan Thomas Meriweather, known as Jon-Tom, is a law student and part-time rock guitarist in Los Angeles who is pulled out of his own world by a spell gone wrong. The hardheaded tortoise wizard Clothahump was trying to summon an engineer to help him against a coming threat, and got Jon-Tom instead. He wakes in a land of intelligent talking animals, where he finds that when he plays and sings on a strange local instrument, the duar, his songs take on magical power, though what they do depends on the words and rarely goes as planned. Teamed with Mudge, a hard-drinking, womanizing otter, Jon-Tom must learn to be a spellsinger as the insect armies of the Plated Folk prepare to invade.
Where it sits
- Universe: Spellsinger
- Series: Spellsinger core; position 1 of 8 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Alan Dean Foster
Notes
- From the series record (Spellsinger): Eight comic fantasy novels, Warner Books (some first in Phantasia Press hardcovers), 1983 to 1994.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Spellsinger: position 1 of 8: next The Hour of the Gate (1983)
Sources
- ISFDB: Spellsinger series
- Wikipedia: Spellsinger
- ISFDB: Spellsinger (Warner, June 1983)
- Wikipedia: Spellsinger (novel)
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