Midnight at the Well of Souls
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| Author | Jack L. Chalker |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher | Del Rey |
| Released | 1977 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-7434-3522-2 |
Midnight at the Well of Souls is the first book in the Well of Souls series by American author Jack L. Chalker, first published as a paperback in 1977.
[edit] Plot Summary
Nathan Brazil is the rough captain of the interstellar freighter Stehekin. While transporting three passengers, Captain Brazil receives a distress call from an uninhabited planet and makes a detour to investigate. There, they find the remains of a research team murdered by the rogue scientist Elkinos Skander in order to conceal his discovery of how to control Markovian technology. While exploring the planet, they are inadvertently transported to the Well World, where all of them except Brazil are transformed into a variety of native species and scattered across the southern hemisphere. It is revealed that Brazil is in fact the guardian of the Well, and a race begins to beat Skander to the interior of Well in order to return his companions to the human Community of Worlds and prevent Skander from taking control of the Well World's power.
