MIDNIGHT AT THE WELL OF SOULS & EXILES AT THE WELL OF SOULS & QUEST FOR THE WELL OF SOULS & THE RETURN OF NATHAN BRAZIL & TWILIGHT AT THE WELL OF SOULS (Five Separate Volumes in Very Fine Consition)

Chalker, Jack

Published by Del Rey, USA, 1978

About this Item

The fisrt five original, fat volumes of which vols 2 to 5 are first editions and first printings, with vol 1 being a third printing of the first edition. All five volumes are in exceptional condition, each offering clean, unmarked, sharp wrappers, a spotless, resolute, tight and solid spine, plus clean, white pages. A superb set of the original five Well World novels, which made Chalker's name and are a joy to read. Chalker bore a striking resemblance to Charlie Brown, the (late) editor and owner of Locus magazine. A superb set in VERY FINE CONDITION. ============================================================================== Jack Laurence Chalker (December 17, 1944 February 11, 2005) was an American science fiction author. Chalker was also a Baltimore City Schools history teacher in Maryland for 12 years, retiring during 1978 to write full-time. He also was a member of the Washington Science Fiction Association and was involved in the founding of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society. Chalker is best known for his Well World series of novels, but he also wrote many other novels (most, but not all, part of a series, or large novels which were split into 'series' by the publishers), and at least nine short stories. Many of Chalker's works involve some physical transformation of the main characters. For instance, in the Well World novels, immigrants to the Well World are transformed from their original form to become a member of one of the 1,560 sentient species that inhabit that artificial planet. Another example would be that the Wonderland Gambit series resembles traditional Buddhist jataka-type reincarnation stories set in a science fiction environment. Samantha Chalker announced that Wonderland Gambit might be made into a movie, but supposedly its close resemblance to The Matrix resulted in the project being canceled.[4] At the time of his death, Chalker left one unfinished novel, Chameleon. He was planning to write another novel, Ripsaw, after Chameleon. (Wikipedia).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: MIDNIGHT AT THE WELL OF SOULS & EXILES AT THE WELL OF SOULS & QUEST FOR THE WELL OF SOULS & THE RETURN OF NATHAN BRAZIL & TWILIGHT AT THE WELL OF SOULS (Five Separate Volumes in Very Fine Consition)
• Publisher: Del Rey, USA
• Publication Date: 1978
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: H.R. Van Dongen & Darrell K Sweet
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket