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The Paths of the Perambulator

First edition
Author	Alan Dean Foster
Cover artist	Kevin Johnson
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy
Publisher	Phantasia Press
Publication date	1985
Media type	Print (paperback)
Pages	288 pp
ISBN	0-932096-39-5
Preceded by	The Moment of the Magician
Followed by	The Time of the Transference

The Paths of the Perambulator ( 1985) is a fantasy novel by American writer 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.

External links

• The Paths of the Perambulator title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Alan Dean Foster homepage

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