Midnight at the Well of Souls
Entered by a thousand unsuspected gateways -- built by a race lost in the clouds of time -- the planet its dwellers called the Well World turned beings of every kind into something else. There spacefarer Nathan Brazil found himself companioned by a batman, an amorous female centaur and a mermaid...
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Entered by a thousand unsuspected gateways -- built by a race lost in the clouds of time -- the planet its dwellers called the Well World turned beings of every kind into something else. There spacefarer Nathan Brazil found himself companioned by a batman, an amorous female centaur and a mermaid -- all once as human as he.Yet Nathan Brazil's metamorphosis was more terrifying than any of those...and his memory was coming back, bringing with it the secret of the Well World.For at the heart of the bizarre planet lay the goal of every being that had ever lived -- and Nathan Brazil and his comrades were...lucky?...enough to find it!
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780345324450 (0345324455)
Publish date: February 12th 1978
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Pages no: 360
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Adventure,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Classics,
Science Fiction,
Epic Fantasy,
Cultural,
Space,
Space Opera,
Speculative Fiction,
Brazil
Series: Saga of the Well World (#1)
I've been seeing this book in the Sci-Fi section of bookstores forever, but only just got a copy and i wonder now why I've deprived myself this long. Chalker has always been to me an unsung hero of Sci-Fi, crafting entertaining stories without the accolades other Sci-Fi writers get. If you're lookin...
I don't know, I got about halfway before giving up. The ideas are sort of interesting but the execution is boring. The beginning bits with archeology were good and I enjoyed the introduction of the various races but after that it got too plodding and dull and I couldn't stand Brazil or whoever he en...
A collection of odd characters accidentally discover the world where the first sentient beings in the universe designed and created all other life forms in the universe (including humans) as a vast experiment. A crazy quest adventure with quite a bit of weird sex.