The Moment of the Magician

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The Moment of the Magician
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First edition
Author Alan Dean Foster
Cover artist Romas Kukalis
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Fantasy
Publisher Phantasia Press
Publication date
1984
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages320
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

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.


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