Jon-Tom's been pulled there because Clothahump thought he was an engineer engineering in our world is like magic in Clothahump's world, we're told, although there's not that much evidence to support it.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER SPELLSINGER SERIES
The Spellsinger series follows Jon-Tom, a law student/musician from our world who gets accidentally pulled into another world by the wizard Clothahump, a turtle in Clothahump's world, all animals - spiders, insects, mammals, and birds, but not lizards (other than dragons) - act more or less like humans. The Spellsinger books, like a lot of the mid-80s fantasy I like so much, rely on a tried-and-true formula that works because Foster is a good writer and can rise above the cliches. Which puts Foster pretty firmly in second place, not a bad spot to be in my opinion. King, I've read 13 (or 14 it's hard to tell sometimes, because his stories run together in my mind.) Anthony it's at least 31 I can't remember if I've read some of his, too, like the 2nd half of The Apprentice Adept series. The only other authors prolific enough to match up, I think, are Piers Anthony and Stephen King, so I counted them, too. I counted up the books I've read by him, and it's 18. He also won the Ignotus Award (Spain) in 1994 and the Stannik Award (Russia) in 2000.Īlan Dean Foster has written, according to Wikipedia, over 100 novels, and as I was (re)reading The Hour Of The Gate I was trying to work out in my head if, based on sheer volume alone, Foster would rank as my favorite author. His novel Our Lady of the Machine won him the UPC Award (Spain) in 1993. The book Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990. Splinter of the Mind's Eye, a bestselling novel based on the Star Wars movies, received the Galaxy Award in 1979. Other books include novelizations of science fiction movies and television shows such as Star Trek, The Black Hole, Starman, Star Wars, and the Alien movies. The Tar-Aiym Krang also marked the first appearance of Flinx, a young man with paranormal abilities, who reappears in other books, including Orphan Star, For Love of Mother-Not, and Flinx in Flux.įoster has also written The Damned series and the Spellsinger series, which includes The Hour of the Gate, The Moment of the Magician, The Paths of the Perambulator, and Son of Spellsinger, among others. Several other novels, including the Icerigger trilogy, are also set in the world of the Commonwealth. His first novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, introduced the Humanx Commonwealth, a galactic alliance between humans and an insectlike race called Thranx. This interest is carried over to his writing, but with a twist: the new places encountered in his books are likely to be on another planet, and the people may belong to an alien race.įoster began his career as an author when a letter he sent to Arkham Collection was purchased by the editor and published in the magazine in 1968. Foster lives in Arizona with his wife, but he enjoys traveling because it gives him opportunities to meet new people and explore new places and cultures. in Political Science from UCLA in 1968, and a M.F.A.
Spellsinger, the first in Alan Dean Foster's eight-book Spellsinger series, introduces a world of magic and mayhem, where animals are people and plunging ahead no matter what the consequences may be the only way to survive.Bestselling science fiction writer Alan Dean Foster was born in New York City in 1946, but raised mainly in California.
Reluctantly, he finds himself teaming up with a semi-senile turtle wizard a thieving, backstabbing otter and a bewildered Marxist dragon to rally an army for the war about to come. Here, when he plays a strange instrument called a duar, peculiar things happen: powerful magic that may be the only way to stop a dark force that threatens his new world-and his old one. But when a journey through an interdimensional portal lands him in a world of talking animals and ominous sorcery, he finds he is on a very different trip indeed. Jonathan Thomas Meriweather is a typical college student, interested in girls, music, and an occasional taste of reefer. Alan Dean Foster presents Book 1 in the Spellsinger Adventures series.Ī musician is transported into a land of magic-from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Trek Into Darkness.
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