Fantasy Books with Anthropomorphic Rabbits?

November 8, 2007 10:36 AM

I can't remember this 70's/80's fantasy book series! It's driving me nuts. I've been searching google and amazon for about two hours and I keep hitting dead ends.

The details I remember:

The main character was a stoner type who got dragged into a fantasy world.
A female he went to school with followed him.
His magic was music-based.
He and the female were the only humans, all the other characters were anthropomorphic rabbits and foxes and other animals.
One of the main animal characters was a rabbit.
There was a large salamander that was a communist.
A strip club featuring a stripping mink (i think)

I am pretty sure I'm not thinking of Discworld. I got the paperback versions of the books from a library sale, the covers looked like typical Tor fantasy novels from that time period.

posted by d13t_p3ps1 to writing & language (8 comments total)

That would be Alan Dean Foster's Spellsinger series.
posted by tdismukes at 10:47 AM on November 8, 2007 [1 favorite]

i should add that i sold the paperbacks at a yard sale about 10 years ago. Which is why I don't remember the names of the books.
posted by d13t_p3ps1 at 10:48 AM on November 8, 2007

thank you! so much!
posted by d13t_p3ps1 at 10:48 AM on November 8, 2007

ewww.....furries. ( I read the stories as a pre-teen and didn't notice the strong furrie themes until I glanced at them again a couple of years ago).
posted by cosmicbandito at 10:57 AM on November 8, 2007

Hehe I kinda liked that series.

There was a really foul-mouthed sex-obsessed otter as a central character too.

And a turtle wizard who had extradimensional space in his shell.

Pretty creative.
posted by elendil71 at 11:08 AM on November 8, 2007

Complete list of titles:

* Spellsinger (1983)
* The Hour of the Gate (1984)
* The Day of the Dissonance (1984)
* The Moment of the Magician (1984)
* The Paths of the Perambulator (1985)
* The Time of the Transference (1987)
* Son of Spellsinger (1993)
* Chorus Skating (1994)

The first couple weren't bad, in Foster's usual workmanlike manner (although I recall Jon-Tom being a bit whiny). After that, they fell off.
posted by Chrysostom at 11:33 AM on November 8, 2007

I remember reading the first three books in the series when they were new, but didn't realize Foster had kept releasing more. Is there anything to recommend the rest or are they just more of the same?
posted by JaredSeth at 11:47 AM on November 8, 2007

I read all the way up to about half-way through Time of the Transference before I discovered girls. Foster really should have stopped after the first one though, maybe the second. I remember each one relying more heavily on puns than the previous one. Never as badly as Piers Anthony's Xanth books, but certainly enough to strain the suspension of disbelief.
posted by lekvar at 12:00 PM on November 8, 2007