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Country United States Publication date 1985 Pages 288 pp Originally published 1985 Genre Fantasy Fiction | 3.8/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print (Paperback) ISBN 0-446-34956-9 Publisher Grand Central Publishing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Preceded by The Moment of the Magician Followed by The Time of the Transference Similar Alan Dean Foster books, Spellsinger books, Speculative fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Paths of the Perambulator (1985) is a fantasy novel written by Alan Dean Foster. The book follows the continuing adventures of Jonathan Thomas Meriweather who is transported from our world into a land of talking animals and magic. It is the fifth book in the Spellsinger series.
Plot introduction
The strange world Jon-Tom has found himself trapped in takes a turn for the decidedly weird as Foster’s fantasy series take a page from Kafka's The Metamorphosis when the Spellsinger wakes up one morning as a giant crab. The cause, as determined by the turtle wizard Clothahump, is a trapped perambulator: an inter-dimensional creature that wanders through different universes leaving behind random changes to the fabric of the world. Jon-Tom and his friends attempt to free the perambulator before it wreaks permanent havoc on their world.