The Moment of the Magician

"Tropical, friendly, and largely uninhabited" was the wizard Clothahump's account of the southern swamps. Jon-Tom the spellsinger and his otter comrade Mudge find warring prairie dogs, mime-vines, a mountain of living muck and the Plated Folk, and beyond them Marcus the Ineluctable, a new magician. The Spellsinger series reaches its fourth book here, first published by Phantasia Press in 1984.