| The Paths of the Perambulator | |
| Author: | Alan Dean Foster |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Cover Artist: | Kevin Johnson |
| Genre: | Fantasy |
| Publisher: | Phantasia Press |
| Release 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.
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.