Spellsinger

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Spellsinger is a series of humorous fantasy novels written by Alan Dean Foster. The series is frequently named as a favorite among fans of furry literature.

The series opens with Jonathan Thomas Merriweather, a law student, is inadverdently summoned to a world populated by a variety of humans, anthropomorphic animals, and other fantastic and mythical creatures. Jon-Tom (as he is usually known) almost immediately meets is Mudge, the otter. Mudge helps Jon-Tom find his way to the wizard who summoned him, Clothahump, a tortoise. They soon discover that when Jon-Tom sings and plays a duar (a stringed musical instrument) he has the ability to cast magic spells (i.e. he is a spellsinger, hence the title). However, he has a difficult time controlling the results of those spells, often to humorous effect.

Jon-Tom, Mudge, and Clothahump remain the three central characters of the series, which introduces a large number of other often unusual and colorful characters. The first two books are a duology while the rest are more or less standalone stories, though there is an overaching story arc spanning the series, which originally came to a resolution at the end of the sixth book. The seventh book, Son of Spellsinger, focuses on Jon-Tom and Mudge's teenage children (who hadn't been born yet in the earlier books).

The whole series was translated and published in Russia in late 1990's.