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In his continuing quest to find his way back to his own world, Jon-Tom the spellsinger must face off against a magician with sinister intentions Far to the south of the peaceful Bellwoods, where Jon-Tom the spellsinger continues trying to master the art of turning music into magic, a sinister force has awakened: a magician with great ambition and unheard-of power. He summons lightning to do his bidding, commands an army of faceless flying demons, and claims to come from another world—one show more Jon-Tom suspects might be his own. If he can somehow reason with the unknown magician, perhaps they can combine their talents and find a way to go home together. Wary of this new wickedness, Jon-Tom's suspicious mentor sends the spellsinger and his companions on a journey to the southlands, assuring him that the land they are to visit is "tropical, friendly, and largely uninhabited." As Jon-Tom learns all too often, in this mysterious world much will be proven catastrophically wrong.. show less
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Jon-Tom and his companion Mudge journey south to confront a powerful new magician causing trouble with high-tech, faceless, flying demons. They discover the evil stems from an Earth-based human, forcing Jon-Tom to risk his chance of returning home to stop him.
The turtle wizard Clothahump sends them to investigate the southern, tropical, friendly, and largely uninhabited swampland filled with hazards.
The turtle wizard Clothahump sends them to investigate the southern, tropical, friendly, and largely uninhabited swampland filled with hazards.
These were all fine, unmemorable but enjoyable books I devoured when I was 13 or so.
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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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- The Moment of the Magician
- Original title
- The Moment of the Magician
- Original publication date
- 1984 (copyright) (copyright); 1985-03 (1st printing) (1st printing)
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- Jon-Tom (Jonathan Thomas Meriweather); Clothahump; Mudge
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- Quasequa
- Dedication
- For Tim Hildebrandt, A good friend and a fellow journeyer Through the lands of Never-Never. . .
- First words
- "And I say Oploda should give way!"
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Jon-Tom lay at the bottom of the boat and wondered if maybe Markus the Ineluctable hadn't been the lucky one.
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