![]() Soon he finds himself on the Well World, a bizarre planet divided up into hundreds of biospheres and home to hundreds of different civilizations. The story's hero is freighter captain Nathan Brazil, a human male who is noted to be a maverick and a loner in "an age of extreme conformity." While carrying a motley collection of passengers on his ship, Brazil answers a distress call. ![]() ![]() The novel is full of colorful characters, weird locales, and imaginatively conceived alien species. Jack Chalker's "Midnight at the Well of Souls" is a science fiction adventure tale that one could describe as an ambitious epic, yet written with an often whimsical sense of fun. and his memory was coming back, bringing with it the secret of the Well World.įor at the heart of the bizarre planet lay the goal of every being that had ever lived - and Nathan Brazil and his comrades were. Yet Nathan Brazil's metamorphosis was more terrifying than any of those. ![]() There spacefarer Nathan Brazil found himself companioned by a batman, an amorous female centaur and a mermaid - all once as human as he. Nathan Brazil and Marva Chang Human remnants at the Well of Souls By William Wetherallįrom blurb on back cover of origina Del Rey edition of Midnight at the Well of Souls.Įntered by a thousand unsuspected gateways - built by a race lost in the clouds of time - the planet its dwellers called the Well World turned beings of every kind into something else. ![]()
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