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  • Bibliography:
    63 Books (11 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1976
  • Latest Book:
    July 2016
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Full Series List in Order

Changewinds Saga

1 - When the Changewind Blows (May-1990)
2 - Riders of the Winds (May-1988)
3 - War of the Maelstrom (Sep-1988)

The Dancing Gods

1 - River of Dancing Gods (Jan-1984)
2 - Demons of the Dancing Gods (Jun-1984)
3 - Vengeance of the Dancing Gods (Jul-1985)
4 - Songs of the Dancing Gods (Jul-1990)
5 - Horrors of the Dancing Gods (Dec-1995)

The Four Lords of the Diamond

1 - Lilith: A Snake in the Grass (Oct-1981)
2 - Cerberus: A Wolf in the Fold (Jan-1982)
3 - Charon: A Dragon at the Gate (Nov-1982)
4 - Medusa: A Tiger by the Tail (Apr-1983)

G.O.D.S. Inc.

1 - The Labyrinth of Dreams (Mar-1987)
2 - The Shadow Dancers (Jul-1987)
3 - The Maze in the Mirror (Feb-1989)

Quintara Marathon

1 - Demons at Rainbow Bridge (Sep-1989)
2 - The Run to Chaos Keep (May-1992)
3 - The Ninety Trillion Fausts (Oct-1991)

The Rings of the Master

1 - Lords of the Middle Dark (Jun-1986)
2 - Pirates of the Thunder (Mar-1987)
3 - Warriors of the Storm (Aug-1987)
4 - Masks of the Martyrs (Feb-1988)

The Saga of the Well World

1 - Midnight at the Well of Souls (Jul-1977)
2 - Exiles at the Well of Souls (Sep-1978)
3 - Quest for the Well of Souls (Nov-1978)
4 - Return of Nathan Brazil (Jan-1980)
5 - Twilight at the Well of Souls (Oct-1980)
6 - The Sea Is Full of Stars (Nov-1999)
7 - Ghost of the Well of Souls (Apr-2000)

Soul Rider

1 - Spirits of Flux and Anchor (Aug-1986)
2 - Empires of Flux and Anchor (Aug-1984)
3 - Masters of Flux & Anchor (Jan-1985)
4 - The Birth of Flux & Anchor (Dec-1992)
5 - Children of Flux & Anchor (Oct-1986)

Three Kings

1 - Balshazzar's Serpent (Aug-2000)
2 - Melchior's Fire (Jun-2001)
3 - Kaspar's Box (Apr-2003)

The Watchers at the Well

1 - Echoes of the Well of Souls (Dec-1993)
2 - Shadow of the Well of Souls (Jul-1994)
3 - Gods of the Well of Souls (Apr-1995)

The Wonderland Gambit

1 - Cybernetic Walrus (Nov-1995)
2 - The March Hare Network (May-1996)
3 - The Hot-Wired Dodo (Feb-1997)

Book List in Order: 63 titles



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    Paul Carlton Savage died on July 20, 1969, in Vietnam -- but that was only the start of his troubles! Approached by a mysterious entity called The Hunter, Savage was offered immortality in exchange for his services in The Hunter's continuing war agai...



  • PLANET OF GODLIKE POWER Below-average in height and unprepossessing in appearance, Nathan Brazil was an unassuming if cynical starship owner, carrying passengers and cargo for hire. Hardly the sort of person to hold the fate of the entire universe...



  • NOBODY BEATS BAR HOLLIDAY He was paid to find Terraformable worlds, new planets for his corporation to plunder. Up until the day he came upon the Peace Victory, an abandoned generation ship hovering ominously above a definitely habitable planet, he ...



  • WAR ON THE WELL WORLD Antor Trelig, archvillain and head of the Sponge Syndicate, had captured Obie, a supercomputer that could control all matter and all worlds. With Obie's help--willing or unwilling --Trelig would become omnipotent...and he was...



  • MAROONED ON THE WELL WORLD For eleven bitter years, Mavra Chang had been a prisoner on the Well World the master-world where hundreds of impossible races existed, each in its own strange environment. Her once-human companions had been mutated into a...



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    In California, the victims are blind. In Maine, severely retarded. Small towns across America are being systematically "wiped out" by terrorists and their campaign of germ warfare waged against the U.S. The President's only option seems to be an equa...



  • Asmodeus Mogart was not a bad fellow, as demons go. Having gotten in trouble back in the home office, he had been assigned to duty on Earth. There he toiled, doing the kinds of things demons do and turning into something of a drunk.
    Then a rogue a...



  • COUNTDOWN FOR THE WELL WORLD In a desolate sector of space floats the Well World--the ancient Markovian supercomputer that first created and now maintains the Universe. While attempting to repel an insidious intergalactic invasion, Mankind reso...



  • THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD WILL END... The rift in the fabric of space was fast approaching the Well World, and time was running out. Troops all over the planet were gathering for the final battle. Nathan Brazil and Mavra Chang somehow had to re...








  • THE MANTRAP WORLDS Somewhere, from among the four human-settled worlds of the Warden Diamond, hostile aliens were spying on Earth. But no agent could be sent to investigate and report back. All trips to the Warden worlds were one-way. There, a mic...



  • GRAND SCAM Robots were infiltrating the Federation. Someone was kidnapping people and substituting indetectable, synthetic imitations. Somewhere, aliens were studying the Federation, using techniques beyond human developments. The trail led back to ...



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    THE INVADERS ARE AMONG US THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL: "While backpacking in Alaska, Victor Gonser, a 35-year-old Ph.D. in political science, finds himself trapped in the body of a 13-year-old Tlingit Indian girl. A little later he is forced from there...



  • ASSIGNMENT: HELL WORLD They took the body of Park Lacoch and stripped away his mind, transferring the mind of a top Confederacy operator to his brain. Then they stuck him aboard a spaceship and exiled him to Charon, one of the Worlds of the Warden...



  • THE BEGINNING OF THE END GAME The Confederacy's grand scheme seemed to be working. They had substituted the mind of their best operator for the minds of four criminals--every one a top assassin -- and sent one to each of the four Warden worlds to ...



  • Beyond The Sea of Dreams Life had not been kind to Joe and Marge. Now, according to the stranger who met them on a road that wasn’t there, they were due to die in nineteen minutes, eighteen seconds. But the ferryboat that waited to take them acr...



  • Quest For The Dark Baron In Husaquahr the world of magic beyond the Sea of Dreams, the battle had been won and all seemed peaceful. But Throckmorton P. Ruddygore, master sorcerer, knew better. Far to the south on the River of Dancing Gods, the Dar...



  • It was a world slowly recovering from a battle between Titanic forces of good and evil. A grand alliance had been formed to fight humanity's battle. For good had not won the final victory. The nine, rulers of hell, had formed their own empire and pla...



  • THE TIME OF DANGER IS AT HAND Mervyn, wizard and Fluxlord, leader of the Nine Who Guard, faces the ultimate threat of the opposing Seven Who Wait: the opening of the Hellgates to World. Closed more than two thousand years ago, they are portals to ...






  • The mysterious and gruesome death of Sir Robert McKenzie, owner of the Magellan Corporation, leads Greg MacDonald to the discovery of a satanic cult trying to engineer the arrival of the apocalypse and threatening McKenzie's innocent heir, Angelique ...



  • A Demon In The Cellar Throckmorton P. Ruddygore, master wizard, had troubles again -- but this time, they were partly of his own making. He'd finally beaten-the Dark Baron, stripped him of all magical power, and exiled him from Husaquahr to Earth. ...



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  • GRAVE RESERVATIONS Long ago, legend had it, the machines rebelled, wiping out most of humanity and exiling the survivors in widely scattered reservations where they lived according to their ancient cultures. Master System ruled unchallenged, since...



  • Cassie did not feel the soul rider enter her body...but suddenly she knew that Anchor was corrupt, and that, far from being a formless void from which could issue only mutant changelings and evil wizards, Flux was the source of Anchor's very existenc...



  • The last great battle of the Hellgates has been won and Flux and Anchor are at peace -- for now. But someone has found the key to the magic of Flux. IF they succeed in harnessing this fearsome power, the delicate balance could be destroyed. W...



  • The Four Lords of the Diamond is a series of four science fiction novels. Each volume of the series primarily follows a duplicate of a government agent as he lands on his prison planet and begins to both investigate the menace to the civilized worlds...



  • SPADE AND MARLOWE NEVER TOOK A CASE LIKE THIS! I'm Sam Horowitz. My wife Brandy and I are private eyes -- and belly-up broke. That's why we agreed to trace Martin Whitlock, a hotshot banker who'd skipped town with over two million dollars in launder...



  • Hawks had refused to help the ambitious Lazio Chen in his quest to find the five gold rings that could break Master System's hold over humankind-- and that refusal had landed him on the deadly prison planet Melchior. But when Hawks and some fello...







  • GUARDIAN DEVIL For centuries, Master System ruled mankind unchallenged. Then a small band of renegades commandeered the spaceship Thunder and fled into pirate territory. Now they were prepared to seize the five coded rings that together could shut...



  • ENIGMATIC SOLUTION Even before the renegade pirates of the giant spaceship Thunder had collected all five of the rings that would eliminate the threat of Master System forever, Hawks knew that they still faced even greater problems. The shapechange...





  • The Magic of the Changewinds.....could alter the shape of every man and beast in Akahlar. The Evil of The Inner Hells....could take this power away from the Storm Princess, and place it in the destructive hands of the horned demon Klittichorn....




  • THREE UNIQUE EMPIRES THREATENED BY THE DISCOVERY OF ALTERNATE LIFE The Exchange are consuming the universe's resources through the powers of their cybernetic leaders. The Mycohlians are parasitic beings who, like a virus, can invade and take ov...



  • SHE WAS HAUNTED BY THUNDER AND PLAGUED BY DREAMS...strange, dark dreams of a world beyond time and space, a land of magic and mystery. But Charley knew it was more than a dream---for her friend Sam shared her vision. SUDDENLY, THE DREAMS BECOME A ...



  • The evil Dark Baron has escaped and joined forces in the far North with the Master of the Dead to theaten all of Husaquahr with enslavement. Only Joe can stop them -- but Joe is no longer quite himself. In fact, he's not sure who he is!...









  • When the two horned demons--the greatest discovery of all time--escape their giant sealed amber cell and leave a trail of mutilated victims, the three major empires must follow these creatures into another dimension. Reprint....



  • The powerful foundation to the spellbinding Soul Rider saga. The strange and haunted place called World has been a land divided between the stability of Anchor and the chaos of Flux—a land of near magic, where reality yields to madness. It is i...



  • When former Air Force officer and NSA agent Ron Moosic is assigned for special duty in charge of security for a nuclear power plant, he has no idea that the plant is only a cover for a top-secret project involving time travel.The government has disco...



  • Nathan Brazil had been the guardian of the Well of Souls, where the Well World's master control lay. But now the universe faced a threat more grave than mere destruction: An unnamed and utterly alien entity had somehow been released from its ancient ...



  • A collection of short stories deals with the grandest hotel in the universe, where star-crossed lovers cross paths with the woman who rules the earth, a shape-shifting madame fulfills the needs of extraterrestrials, and a thin-skinned human fights co...



  • Immortal, unchanging, the eternal survivor, Nathan Brazil had tired of his long duty as the guardian of the Well World and had enlisted Mavra Chang, space pilot and adventurer, as his companion and equal, sharing with her the godlike power to control...



  • In its hour of need, the Well World's guardians had been neutralized. Nathan Brazil was shipwrecked on a desert island with a seemingly harmless girl who had caused his mind to be invaded, his will sapped, and his mission forgotten. Mavra Chang had b...



  • EVERYTHING YOU THINK YOU KNOW IS WRONG...
    That was the strange message left on Cory Maddox's e-mail--just at the moment when years of work on a revolutionary subspace computer system were about to pay off. Nothing would be the same for Cory again....



  • MORTAL DILEMMA
    An ancient evil was seeping forth from the Sea of Dreams: the Old Ones were rising from the depths to challenge both Heaven and Hell. Their assault boded ill for Earth, and worse for the magical land of Husaquahr, where magic was pl...






  • GO ASK ALICE
    Time after time, life after life, Cory Maddox was being incarnated into worlds he found both familiar and strangely different. And it was only in his latest incarnation that, for the first time, Cory brought along knowledge, skills, a...



  • BEYOND THE SEA OF DREAMS
    Life had never been kind to Joe and Marge. Now, according to Throckmorton P. Ruddygore--a stranger who met them on a road that wasn't there--they were due to die in nineteen minutes. But across the Sea of Dreams lay a new ...



  • When the Changewinds blow across the worlds that they themselves created, they are at once random and consisten, obeying their own spectral meterology. Over this tumultuous sea of realities rule the Ahkbreed, whose sorcerers have mastery over physica...



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    Reality wasn't what it used to be. Life after life, as man, woman, and child, Cory Maddox was trapped in an endless cycle of ever-changing realities, on the run from his ruthless companions *who were likewise trapped *and fr...




  • WORLDS OF NO RETURN Humans had finally gone to the stars, as the dreamers had always hoped; celestial stretches of the galaxy became the playgrounds of a new spacefaring race. But now these worlds were being taken over by Titans, creatures with unim...



  • After three passengers--Ming, Ari, and Angel--embark on elite starship journey into the Realm, they unwittingly become ensnared in one man's bloodthirsty vendetta that will alter their very beings. That man is Jeremiah Wong Kincaid. He vows to destro...



  • THE EVOLUTION OF TERROR

    A hard-living reporter long past his Pulitzer Prize-winning prime, Chuck Vallone is about to meet a renowned geneticist who needs to clear his conscience. But when Vallone arrives at their rendezvous, he finds the D.C. ...



  • On the mysterious Well World, the evil tyrant Josich and his dark agents search desperately for the eight scattered pieces of the fabled Straight Gate. Whoever possesses the Gate will wield enormous power, traveling between universes at the speed of ...



  • ON A GALACTIC MISSION FROM GOD When the wormholes mysteriously failed and the Great Silence fell across a third of humanity's interstellar civilization, it was up to the Church to tie together what remained. As had happened long before, during the M...



  • ON THE RUN FROM THE INTERSTELLAR MOB! For centuries, interstellar prospectors had searched for the fabled worlds of the Three Kings, the lost El Dorado of the galaxy. But none had succeeded. Only the mad cyborg Prophet, Ishmael Hand, had ever seen...





  • THE SECRET OF THE THREE KINGS--REVEALED AT LAST For centuries, interstellar prospectors had searched for the fabled Worlds of the Three Kings, the lost El Dorado of the galaxy. But if any found it, they were never heard from again. The mad cyborg ...



  • When terrorists seized a secret time travel project and sent agents back to change the past, Ron Moosic was sent downtime in pursuit -- and found he was only a pawn in a war in the far future!...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jack L. Chalker has published 63 books.

Jack L. Chalker does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Downtiming the Nightside, was published in July 2016.

The first book by Jack L. Chalker, A Jungle of Stars, was published in January 1976.

Yes. Jack L. Chalker has 11 series.