Gods of the well of souls (1994)
Gods of the well of souls is a 1994 science fiction book written by Jack L. Chalker.
The Well World's guardians are down when it needs them most. Nathan Brazil sits shipwrecked on a desert island, his mind quietly hijacked and his mission wiped clean, while Mavra Chang has been seized by inter-hex drug smugglers, surgically remade into a strange new form and chained to powerful narcotics. The Well is only a machine, and a machine needs its Watchers, so it starts nudging its champions back into play. Stranded companions caught in the ruling council's scheming may be their only help. Behind all of it moves the Kraang, an intelligence older than the Well itself. Jack Chalker closes this trilogy with everyone, even the great computer, being played.
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What is Gods of the well of souls about?
The Well World's guardians are down when it needs them most. Nathan Brazil sits shipwrecked on a desert island, his mind quietly hijacked and his mission wiped clean, while Mavra Chang has been seized by inter-hex drug smugglers, surgically remade into a strange new form and chained to powerful narcotics. The Well is only a machine, and a machine needs its Watchers, so it starts nudging its champions back into play. Stranded companions caught in the ruling council's scheming may be their only help. Behind all of it moves the Kraang, an intelligence older than the Well itself. Jack Chalker closes this trilogy with everyone, even the great computer, being played.
When was Gods of the well of souls published?
Gods of the well of souls was published in 1994.
Who made Gods of the well of souls?
Gods of the well of souls was written by Jack L. Chalker.
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Farscape shares the vertigo of a self remade by an alien galaxy, will and body no longer your own. Annihilation matches the horror of forced bodily transformation. Mass Effect echoes the ancient hidden intelligence steering a galaxy from the shadows.
Picking up Nathan Brazil and Mavra Chang's story across the Well World saga
Gods of the well of souls catches Nathan Brazil and Mavra Chang at their lowest, stripped of memory and freedom just when the Well needs its watchers most. Midnight, Twilight, The Return of Nathan Brazil, and Exiles cover what happened earlier, while Shadow, Quest, Ghost, and Echoes carry Jack Chalker's saga through everything that comes next.
More Chalker science fantasy where a world reshapes whoever lands in it
Gods of the well of souls leans on the same trick that runs through all of Jack Chalker's science fantasy, a world that reshapes anyone unlucky enough to land in it. The Sea Is Full of Stars, Songs of the Dancing Gods, Demons of the Dancing Gods, Dancers in the Afterglow, and The Web of the Chozen all share that restless appetite for bodies and rules rewritten on arrival.
Sprawling space operas that stake everything on one impossible threat
Gods of the well of souls puts the ancient machine's automatic defenses back in play, nudging a shipwrecked Nathan Brazil and a captive Mavra Chang toward one last confrontation neither can dodge. Mass Effect, A Fire Upon the Deep, The Armageddon Inheritance, Judas Unchained, and The Neutronium Alchemist build the same kind of galaxy-spanning stakes, where a single overwhelming force outweighs every faction fighting over it.