Series
Spellsinger
Alan Dean Foster · 8 novels · 1 novelette · 1983–2004
Alan Dean Foster's Spellsinger series follows Jon-Tom, a UCLA law student pulled into a fantasy world by the wizard Clothahump, where he discovers he can cast spells by singing along with his guitar. That world is populated almost entirely by anthropomorphic animals -- otters, rabbits, turtles -- with humans a rare minority, and across eight books published between 1983 and 2004, Jon-Tom and his companions repeatedly clash with the insectoid Plated Folk raiding the western territories.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(3 editions)
Map
Spellsinger at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1980s6
- 1990s2
- 2000s1
Shape
8 novels · 1 novelette
1 author
reads like:fantasyquestssecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book8 of 9 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Moment of the Magiciandarkest · most intense
- The Day of the Dissonancebrightest · calmest