The Hour of the Gate
core novel 1983 Spellsinger
Record
| First published | 1983 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.87 (4,473 ratings, collected 2026-10-29) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780446903547 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
The Plated Folk, armies of giant insects and arthropods from beyond the mountains, have found a magic strong enough to break through Zaryt’s Teeth and invade the warmlands, and the turtle wizard Clothahump shows the elders of Polastrindu visions of the war to come. Jon-Tom, who still only wants to go home, must go with the wizard in search of allies. With Mudge the otter, the fiery Talea, a cowardly bat and a gambler among his motley crew, he travels by an underground river beneath the mountains, past the spider-silk city of the Weavers and their alluring arachnid queen, and must raise an army before the great battle at the Jo-Troom Gate, where his unpredictable spellsinging may be all that stands between the warm-blooded peoples and the Plated Folk’s queen.
Where it sits
- Universe: Spellsinger
- Series: Spellsinger core; position 2 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 2 of 8: previous Spellsinger (1983) · next The Day of the Dissonance (1984)
Sources
- ISFDB: Spellsinger series
- Wikipedia: Spellsinger
- SFandFantasy.co.uk: Alan Dean Foster bibliography
- GraphicAudio: Spellsinger 2: The Hour of the Gate
- AddALL: Spellsinger books in order
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