War of the Maelstrom

7 best books like War of the Maelstrom (Jack L. Chalker): A Wizard of Earthsea, A Spell for Chameleon, Speaker for the Dead, Centaur Aisle, Night Mare, The Source of Magic, Castle Roogna

A Wizard of Earthsea

Author	Ursula K. Le Guin
ISBN	0553383043

”The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.”

The Folio Society edition is superbly illustrated by David Lupton.

The boy is born on the island of Gont in the archipelago of Earthsea. This is a world infused with magic. Not everyone can control this magic, but those...

A Spell for Chameleon

Author

Piers Anthony

Xanth was the enchanted land where magic ruled - where every citizen had a special spell only he could cast. It was a land of centaurs and dragons and basilisks.

For Bink of North Village, however, Xanth was no fairy tale. He alone had no magic. And unless he got some - and got some fast! - he would...

Speaker for the Dead

Author	Orson Scott Card
ISBN	0812550757

Now available in mass market, the revised, definitive edition of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classic. In this second book in the saga set 3,000 years after the terrible war, Ender Wiggin is reviled by history as the Xenocide--the destroyer of the alien Buggers. Now, Ender tells the true story...

Centaur Aisle

Author	Piers Anthony
ISBN	0345418522

This book started out really slow! But in the end I loved it, and can't wait to read the 5th. I really don't know why people say these books are so sexist because (view spoiler)[Irene proposes to Dor (hide spoiler)].

Night Mare

Author	Piers Anthony
ISBN	0345418549

Although the Nextwave of barbarian warriors was invading Xanth, Mare Imbrium discovered that ever since she had gained the half soul, the night mare had begun to mishandle her job of delivering bad dreams. Exiled to the day world with a message for King Trent, Mare met the relentless, unforgiving Horseman....

The Source of Magic

Author	Piers Anthony
ISBN	0345418506

I tried, I really tried. The way that my sister was talking about this book, it sounded like so much fun, and there was so much potential. But... I just can't like this book.

First off, I think that it could have been so much shorter. It takes so much time, trying to sound more important than it really...

Castle Roogna

Author	Piers Anthony
ISBN	0345418514

B&N Synopsis:

Millie, a ghost for 800 years wants only one man--Jonathan, and he's a zombie. To prove himself, Magician Dor volunteers to get the potion that can restore Jonathan to full life. But he has to go back through time to do it, to a peril-haunted, ancient Xanth, where danger lurks...