The Day of the Dissonance

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The Day of the Dissonance
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First edition
Author Alan Dean Foster
Cover artistKirk Reinert
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Fantasy
Publisher Phantasia Press
Publication date
1984
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages304
ISBN 0-932096-30-1
OCLC 58811150
Preceded by The Hour of the Gate  
Followed by The Moment of the Magician  

The Day of the Dissonance is a 1984 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 third book in the Spellsinger series.

Plot

Jon-Tom, with the somewhat faithful otter Mudge, sets across the Glittergeist Ocean in his strange new world in order to find a magical cure for the dying wizard Clothahump. Along the way he conjures up Roseroar, an Amazonian tiger, rescues Jalwar, the ferret, and together they free Folly, a not so innocent beauty, from bondage. Jon-Tom and his motley crew press on, confronting a forest of Fungoid Frankensteins on the Muddletop Moors, a parrot pirate on the high seas, cannibal fairies in the enchanted canyon, and the evil wizard of Malderpot. They also ally with a shopkeep with a secret and a golden unicorn with his own.


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