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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Yes, that is the first of the Kingdom of Landover series.
Nope, haven't read spellsinger... what's that about?
BOb
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very similiar idea(but first
) Normal guy set in our time/world who is a musician and gets taken to another world by a magician turns out in their world magic is musical in origin, thus giving him a bit of an advantage as a spellsinger. Awesome series by one of my favourite authors second only to the damned series about strangely enough first contact with alien races and how humans cope with it
The Damned series
About Spellsinger from Wikipedia
The story initially deals with the character of Jonathan Thomas Meriweather, referred to by the locals as Jon-Tom, when he is unwillingly pulled into a fantasy world by the turtle wizard Clothahump. Having been, at the moment of his transportation, high on cannabis, Jon-Tom initially thinks it is all a dream brought on by the drugs. He soon finds out differently: he is in an unfamiliar world with little prospect of returning home anytime soon.
The world of Spellsinger is largely inhabited by animals that are similar to those found on Earth, but are anthropomorphic: generally bipedal, they are intelligent, able to wear clothing and handle tools, generally closer to human-sized than their Earth counterparts, and are capable of speech. Humans, far from being the dominant species, here are equal to others.
The threat to the Western areas are from the Plated Folk, larger versions of insects and other arthropods who periodically mount assaults on the Western areas. Spiders are not included in the main society, which has centipedes and various insects like beetles. Spiders have their own society known as The Weavers, and are highly isolationist.