Midnight At The Well Of Souls is, in my opinion, Jack L. Chalker's best book. That may not exactly be a controversial opinion, as most people probably don't remember him and those who do know him mainly from this novel. However, this isn't about stirring up shit on the internet, but about giving you my honest to goodness opinion. And even after all these years I still enjoy this book. First published in 1977, the book begins at an archaeological expedition on a distant planet. Not only does this sequence set up the main drama of the story, it also helps to establish the universe our characters live in. The book came out while the Cold War was still going strong, so of course the dystopian future we find ourselves in involves worlds that have become socialist nightmare. People have number designations instead of names. They are genetically programmed to do their jobs, and to be happy with that. There are individualist holdouts though, as we discover when we...
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