| The Moment of the Magician | |
| Author: | Alan Dean Foster |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Cover Artist: | Romas Kukalis |
| Genre: | Fantasy |
| Publisher: | Phantasia Press |
| Release Date: | 1984 |
| Media Type: | Print (paperback) |
| Pages: | 320 |
| Isbn: | 0-932096-33-6 |
| Preceded By: | The Day of the Dissonance |
| Followed By: | The Paths of the Perambulator |
The Moment of the Magician (1984) 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 fourth book in the Spellsinger series.
The wizard Clothahump described the swamps of the south as "tropical, friendly, and largely uninhabited" when he sent Jon-Tom the Spellsinger and Mudge the Otter to investigate the rising power of a new magician, Marcus the Ineluctable. Along the way they encounter warring colonies of tough-talking prairie dogs, magical mime-vines, a mammoth mountain of living muck and a hidden colony of dreaded Plated Folk.