Quest for the Well of Souls
10 best books like Quest for the Well of Souls (Jack L. Chalker): Behind the Walls of Terra, The Wizard and the Warlord, The Crucible of Time, Chaining the Lady, Retief: Diplomat at Arms, The World of Ptavvs, Starwolf, The Snake Oil Wars or Scheherazade Ginsberg Strikes Again, The Gathering Flame, The Trouble with Humans
| Author | Philip José Farmer |
| ISBN | 0441053572 |
Paul Janus Finnegan was called Kickaha on the artificial universes created by that always fueding super-race known as the Lords. Though he was a mortal Earthman, he had managed to survive every intrigue, war, test and opponent they could devise.
But it was when he found his way back to his own...
| Author | Elizabeth H. Boyer |
| ISBN | 0345347110 |
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THE MAGIC IN THE BOX
Sigurd grew up with his grandmother, bothered only by the trolls that seemed bent on destroying their settlement. Then she died, leaving him a mysterious box he couldn't open and a confused warning against some dread...
| Author | John Brunner |
| ISBN | 0345312244 |
There are some incredibly smart things Brunner does in this novel. The story is told from the perspective of a world of intelligent aliens as they reach out to discover the universe in which they live. They have to do that in ways that are very different from our own history in details (for example, they...
| Author | Piers Anthony |
| ISBN | 0380017792 |
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Melody, old Mintakan musical alien, keeps Tarot cards while saving universe. First willing transfer volunteer is busty human Solarian Yael. Enemy galaxy Andromeda forces transfers, damages hosts, Officers in Milky Way spaceship fleet. Bird of...
| Author | Keith Laumer |
| ISBN | 0671440292 |
Retief is possibly Science Fiction's most humorous, and also invariably triumphant, recurring character; embodying the intelligence and machismo of James Bond (Retief's portrayal on the cover art of some of the books is rather remininiscent of James Coburn as Derek Flint from the Our Man Flint movies)...
| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 1857239970 |
Larry Greenberg's telepathic tendencies had been trained and developed to a critical level. The trouble was that if these psychic interchanges were strong enough, a man could end up not knowing who he really was. And when Larry's mind is taken over by a sinister alien force, he has to fight to retain his...
| Author | Edmond Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0441784224 |
Edmond Hamilton (1904-1977) was one of the true giants of golden age science fiction. He managed to create the space opera sub-genre and crank out a series of pulp novels under the Captain Future imprint. There are stories of him typing so fast the typewriter would move across his desk. Later he would...
| Author | Parke Godwin |
| ISBN | 0385247729 |
The follow-up to Waiting for the Galactic Bus has Coyul taking over Topside after Barion is banished, and dealing with another bigoted American fundamentalist. Godwin tries to make Lance Candor his own character, and he's not the racist Roy Stride was, but it still feels like a bit of a rehash. A trial...
| Author | Debra Doyle |
| ISBN | 0812534956 |
This is actually somewhere around 2.5 stars for me. I enjoyed it, but not as much as By Honor Betrayed (the other Mageworlds book I've read). Also, I requested it under the impression that it was the fourth in the series, which it technically is, but it is *actually* the *prequel* to the series. I am doomed...
| Author | Christopher Anvil |
| ISBN | 1416521429 |
Humans—there’s no understanding them, and no dealing with them either. Or even their planet. Pity the poor aliens, whose shape-changing ability should let them take over the planet Earth before the humans even know they’re there—if it weren’t for all that omnipresent pollution. Or consider...
| Author | Frederik Pohl |
| ISBN | 0345016610 |
Every now and then I like to re-read an SF classic, and there are rarely safer hands to be in than those of Pohl and Kornbluth. I was surprised as I got into it that I couldn't remember a thing about this book - I suspect it's because despite featuring a number of 'adventure' scenes, it is so cerebral. And that...
| Author | Alfred Bester |
| ISBN | 0451024745 |
Alfred Bester writes fiction that is offbeat and intensely imaginative. In THE DARK SIDE OF THE EARTH, a volume that includes his new novella and five short stories, Mr. Bester is at his most inventive.
Contents:
Time Is the Traitor (1953)
The Men Who Murdered Mohammed (1958)
Out...
| Author | Ben Bova |
| ISBN | 0812503198 |
When this book was published in 1989, it was clearly a science fiction. Now, in 2013, only 14 years later, it became a widespread reality, with deviation in only tiny details. Rarely a sci-fi novel can boast such a fate, especially when its focus is so far from science. Cyberbooks is a sci-fi satire on the...
| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
| ISBN | 0345296613 |
Ethan Frome Fortune had been on Tran-Ky-ky long enough...too long in fact. He wanted out. He wanted to get back to business. He wanted to go home. So he and his sidekick Skua September headed their giant icerigger toward Brass Monkey, the busy off-world trading post where they were sure they could book...
| Author | F.M. Busby |
| ISBN | 0759253382 |
On re-reading for the first time since probably the 1980s, I've realized this is a pretty awful book. If you are reading the series, I'd advise you consider skipping it and moving straight into the next volume.
Partly it suffers from middle volume syndrome. While the first volume zipped along,...
| Author | Andre Norton |
| ISBN | 0839823541 |
The cover blurb of my copy of Spell of the Witch World is deceptive. After three paragraphs of effusive – but general – praise and comparison to Tolkien, the final one explains “[h]ere you will meet the twins, Elys, the witch-sister, and Elyn, the warrior-brother – and the pact that drew both...
| Author | Harry Harrison |
| ISBN | 0380756641 |
He's the perfect Spaceship Trooper: big, strong and completely brainwashed. He's the perfect hero: willing to do almost anything to save his own neck (perhaps one of the only body parts that's still his own).Bill is in the hospital, vainly hoping for a real foot to replace the satyr's foot he's been lumbered...
| Author | Paul O. Williams |
| ISBN | 0803298498 |
One thousand years after “the time of fire,” a gentle craftsman and flute player forsakes both his true love and birthright to seek the fabled Shining Sea. Stel, born of proud but rigid Pelbar culture, embarks on an epic quest across an America dramatically changed by a long-ago nuclear war. Following...
