Midnight at the Well of Souls

A CAEZIK Notable book. CAEZIK Notables is a series of speculative-fiction books marking important milestones in science fiction or fantasy. Each book published in the series has a new introduction highlighting the book's significance within the genre.

Global bestseller with over 5 million copies sold

Welcome to the Well World: a construct of an ancient defunct race known as the Markovians. Th e Well World acts both as the controller of and the gateway to 1560 worlds created by the Markovians at the end of their time.

Nathan Brazil is a starship captain carrying passengers and cargo from planet to planet. Answering a distress call, he (with others) is suddenly transported to the Well World by a hidden gate.

There Nathan Brazil must stop mysterious forces from taking control of the Well World, and through the Well World, the universe. But to do so, he must deal with bizarre transformations which have changed people into centaurs, mermaids and giant insects.

In this strange land, inhabited by these strange transformed creatures, who are his friends, and who are his enemies? And what of his own memories, which seem to have been deeply suppressed?

Author: Jack L. Chalker
Publisher: CAEZIK SF & Fantasy
Published: 05/11/2021
Pages: 348
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781647100261

About the Author
Jack Chalker was an extremely popular science fiction author who penned several series, the most popular of those being the Well-World series. Before becoming a full time writer he was teacher and also lectured on science fiction ant technology at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. and the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

Jack was a three time treasurer of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and was a founder of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society. His awards included the Daedalus Award, The Gold Medal of the West Coast Review of Books, the Skylark Award and the Hamilton-Brackett Memorial Award. He as nominated twice each for the John W. Campbell and Hugo Awards.

His books have remained continuously in print due to their on-going popularity, particularly the books in the Well World Series which have sold millions of copies in multiple countries. Much of his fiction address physical transformation of the main characters, including gender changes, which are particularly relevant to todays world.