Hour of the Gate - Hardcover
Marooned in another universe, a young American musician leads a motley army in battle against an enemy that threatens to destroy their world and ours Jon-Tom just wanted to go home. Trapped in a world where animals speak and magic is real, the American college student yearned for an ordinary dorm-room life. But here his music has magical power—even if he can’t control it—which may be able to save the world from the army of the Plated Folk, whose sinister queen plans on killing and eating every warm-blooded mammal she can get her pincers on and taking over their lands. The great battle is coming, and Jon-Tom, whose posse includes a wizarding turtle, a cowardly bat, and an otter with a filthy mind, must raise an army to fight it. To find allies they must make an impossible journey, across mountains and rivers no one has ever passed before. Survival will be a miracle—but Jon-Tom is no ordinary musician.
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The New York Times–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, The Tar-Aiym Krang, 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 Star Trek: The Motion Picture. An avid world traveler, he chronicles some of his own adventures in the wild in his memoir Predators I Have Known (2011). Foster lives with his family in Prescott, Arizona.
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“One of the most consistently inventive and fertile writers of science fiction and fantasy.” —The Times
“Alan Dean Foster is a master of creating alien worlds.” —SFRevu
“Foster knows how to spin a yarn.” —Starlog
“Foster does a fine job with his misfit heroes and even with his minor characters.” —Publishers Weekly
“Alan Dean Foster is a master of creating alien worlds.” —SFRevu
“Foster knows how to spin a yarn.” —Starlog
“Foster does a fine job with his misfit heroes and even with his minor characters.” —Publishers Weekly
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- PublisherTBS The Book Service Ltd
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0356107353
- ISBN 13 9780356107356
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages304
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The Hour of the Gate; Spellsinger Book Two
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Macdonald, Loftus, New South Wales
(1985)
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Keith Parkinson -- Cover Art (illustrator). First Edition. At the beginning of the text there is a double page map showing the Swordsward. Blue coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper with yellow, white and orange coloured titles to the front panel and white coloured titles to the backstrip. The second volume of the adventures of Jonathan Meriwether  Spellsinger, with his friend Mudge the otter, Clothahump the wizard and other assorted friends on a new adventure. Rubbing of the book edges and a little bumping of the top book corners. Noticeable tanning of the textblock edges with faint foxing and age toning of the pages. Rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and panels. Sunning to the dustwrapper. First English Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [8], 9 - 300, [4] pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Keith Parkinson -- Cover Art. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN: 0356107353. ISBN/EAN: 9780356107356. Inventory No: 0129891. Seller Inventory # 0129891
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