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To save his wizard mentor, a spellsinger--and his otter sidekick--must cross time and space, in this novel by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. Jon-Tom and his friends have seen better days. After his motley crew moved heaven and Earth to save civilization at the battle of Jo-Troom Gate, his merry band went its separate ways. Mudge, the foul-mouthed otter, eagerly returned to thieving, drinking, and whoring, while Talea, the girl of Jon-Tom's dreams, embarked on her own show more adventures, leaving him to study magic with Clothahump, the irascible wizard whose inept spell trapped him in this weird otherworld in the first place. But now Clothahump is dying, and not even Jon-Tom's spellsinging can make him well. In search of medicine for the centuries-old turtle, he and Mudge venture across the seas on a dubious quest that will require the assistance of an Amazonian white tiger, a ferret, and a gender-challenged unicorn. They're going to need all the help they can get. show lessTags
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Jon-Tom and Mudge, his otter sidekick, quest to save the wizard Clothahump, their dying mentor. They journey across the Glittergeist Ocean to find rare medicine, encountering monsters, cannibal fairies, and the evil wizard of Malderpot. Along with Mudge, they team up with Roseroar (an Amazonian tiger), Jalwar (a ferret), and a gender-challenged unicorn.
More fun with the spell singer! Not quit as well formed as the original series, but great visit with the characters.
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Bestselling science fiction writer Alan Dean Foster was born in New York City in 1946, but raised mainly in California. He received a B.A. in Political Science from UCLA in 1968, and a M.F.A. in 1969. Foster enjoys traveling because it gives him opportunities to meet new people and explore new places and cultures. This interest is carried over to show more 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. Foster 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. His first novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, introduced the Humanx Commonwealth, a galactic alliance between humans and an insectlike race called Thranx. Several other novels, including the Icerigger trilogy, are also set in the world of the Commonwealth. 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. Foster 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. 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. Splinter of the Mind's Eye, a bestselling novel based on the Star Wars movies, received the Galaxy Award in 1979. The book Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990. His novel Our Lady of the Machine won him the UPC Award (Spain) in 1993. He also won the Ignotus Award (Spain) in 1994 and the Stannik Award (Russia) in 2000. He is the recipient of the Faust, the IAMTW Lifetime achievement award. Alan Dean Foster's Star Wars: The Force Awakens, was a 2015 New York Times bestseller. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Day of the Dissonance
- Original publication date
- 1984-06
- People/Characters
- Chenelska; Clothahump; Corroboc; Jalwar; Jon-Tom (Jonathan Thomas Meriweather); Mudge (show all 11); Pulewine; Roseroar; Sasheem; Sorbl; Zancresta
- Dedication
- For my cousin Adam Carroll, An idle evening's read to sandwich in between Business Week and Forbes. With much affection.
- First words
- "I'm dying," Clothahump wheezed.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Then it was Jon-Tom's turn to laugh. . .
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