Chorus Skating

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Chorus Skating
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First edition
Author Alan Dean Foster
Cover artist Tim Hildebrandt
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Fantasy
Publisher Warner Books
Publication date
1994
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages344 pp
ISBN 0-7278-4866-6
OCLC 36412521
Preceded by Son of Spellsinger  

Chorus Skating (1994) 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 eighth book in the Spellsinger series.

Plot introduction

To avoid boredom, Spellsinger Jon-Tom and his faithful otter companion, Mudge, help in the search of a lost chord. Refurbishing some resourceless rogues, prying some pampered princesses from a brute bear, dealing with a sneaky salesman - all in day's work. Thrown out by a town, caught in a mocking maelstrom, a song of a siren leads to the attention of the cetacean community. Finally they have to face their nemesis: a very bad and thoroughly evil singer, a would-be great dictator. They do - with a little help from a Thranx.


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