Spellsinger - (Spellsinger Adventures) by Alan Dean Foster (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p><b>Snatched through a portal into a land of magic, a young musician must use a mysterious, multistring duar to rescue the world into which he has fallen before he can return to his own</b></p>Jonathan Thomas Meriweather is a typical college student, interested in girls, music, and an occasional taste of reefer. 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. 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. 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. <br><i>Spellsinger</i>, 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. <br><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>A musician is transported into a land of magic--from the #1 <i>New York Times</i>-bestselling author of <i>Star Wars: The Force Awakens</i> and <i>Star Trek Into Darkness</i>.</b> <p/> Jonathan Thomas Meriweather is a typical college student, interested in girls, music, and an occasional taste of reefer. 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. 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. 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.</p><i>Spellsinger</i>, 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"One of the most consistently inventive and fertile writers of science fiction and fantasy." --<i>The Times</i></p>"Alan Dean Foster is a master of creating alien worlds." --<i>SFRevu</i> <br>"Foster knows how to spin a yarn." --<i>Starlog</i> <br>"Foster does a fine job with his misfit heroes and even with his minor characters." --<i>Publishers Weekly</i> <br><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>The <i>New York Times</i>-bestselling author of more than 110 books, Alan Dean Foster is one of the most prominent writers of modern science fiction and fantasy. Born in New York City in 1946, he studied filmmaking at UCLA, and first found success in 1968 when a horror magazine published one of his short stories. In 1972 he wrote his first novel, <i>The Tar-Aiym Krang</i>, the first in his Pip and Flinx series featuring the Humanx Commonwealth, a universe he has explored in more than twenty-five novels. Foster also created the Spellsinger series and has written dozens of bestselling film novelizations, as well as the story for <i>Star Trek: The Motion Picture</i>. An avid world traveler, he chronicles some of his own adventures in the wild in his memoir <i>Predators I Have Known</i> (2011). Foster lives with his family in Prescott, Arizona.</p> <br>
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