12 books by Jack L. Chalker
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Overview: Jack L. Chalker (1944-2005) was one of science fiction’s most prolific and popular authors, with a readership numbering in the hundreds of thousands. His bestselling novels and series include The Changewinds, Midnight at the Well of Souls and its sequels, The Quintara Marathon trilogy, the "Soul Rider" series, the "Rings of the Master" series, and others. His novels have been translated into many foreign languages and many have been book club selections. He was a familiar figure at SF conventions, often as a guest speaker, frequently as toastmaster. Chalker was also a Baltimore City Schools history teacher in Maryland for 12 years, retiring during 1978 to write full-time. He also was a member of the Washington Science Fiction Association and was involved in the founding of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society.
These are his eleven standalone novels and one collection of short stories.
Genre: fantasy, sci-fi
Dance Band on the Titanic (1988)
Seven stories . . . and more from a science-fiction master! Jack L. Chalker is an acknowledged master of the science-fiction series but from time to time, he has also turned his talents to the short fiction form. Here, for the first time in one volume, are the complete short stories, including two never before published, by one of science-fiction’s most popular authors. DANCE BAND ON THE TITANIC: Mike Dalton was an ordinary deck hand on a most extraordinary ferryboat. He was determined to save the young woman who, night after night, committed suicide from the ferry’s deck . . . but how could he save a ghost? NO HIDING PLACE: No one really believed that the old Hankin House was haunted, but for a lone human and the alien Sirian from the future it was — and always will be — their final battleground! ADRIFT AMONG THE GHOSTS: The alien convict had been sentenced to roam space to collect television signals from a far-off planet called Earth . . . but some programs are too horrible for even a hardened criminal to watch! First time in print! . . . And more! Pus commentary and introductions by the author, and an annotated bibliography!
Dancers in the Afterglow (1978)
First came the tourists…Ondine was a resort planet. Sixteen million tourists travelled there from just about every world you could think of to live and love in sixteen million different ways.
Then came the machists…They had gobbled up world after world, spreading their culture to thousands of different races with a brutal, vicious, but most effective system. They were inhuman, unthinking…uncaring. The Combine had already seen what they had done on other worlds, seen whole populations converted into something horrible…something not quite human, non-thinking and no longer caring.
Now they had captured Ondine, and no human could save the planet.
And then Daniel came to Judgment.
Daniel was a cyborg, a former fighter pilot now wedded to a master computer and life-support system housed in a flying golden egg. He was the Combine scientists’ finest creation, a spaceship that could control twenty-two robot slaves. He was the perfect saviour for Ondine, but for one thing. Everyone seemed to forget that deep inside that golden egg was a very human being…
And the Devil Will Drag You Under (1979)
Asmodeus Mogart was not a bad fellow, as demons go. Having gotten in trouble back in the home office, he had been assigned to duty on Earth. There he toiled, doing the kinds of things demons do and turning into something of a drunk. Then a rogue asteroid threatened to crash into Earth and destroy all life on the planet — demons included! There had to be a better way.
Mac Walters and Jill McCullough, holding a private wake for their world in a Reno bar, were more than startled when a strange-looking little drunk told them they could save the world. All they had to do was enter five alternate universes and steal a demon-guarded jewel in each. Clearly, the man was crazy. But they had nothing better to do than go along with the gag. Then they each found themselves, naked and alone, on a hostile alien world!
The Devil’s Voyage (1981)
The opening paragraph of "The Devil’s Voyage" is as follows:
"This is a story about intelligence and the lack of same; of The Bomb, and the bottom line of human courage and endurance; of the two sides of responsibility, the appetite of sharks, and the sharks who are human. Most of all, it’s a tale about how a few hundred brave men might have been blown up, drowned, or eaten alive because Werner Von Braun read science fiction."
In 1944, "Astounding Science Fiction" published a story by Cleve Cartmill called "Deadline" in which, on a fictional planet, there is a war using atomic bombs. The story bore enough resemblance to the Manhattan Project which at the time was creating the first real atomic bombs that the United States War department investigated whether there might have been a leak. This is a matter of historical fact.
Chalker’s novel has that investigation as a starting point, and postulates a series of events which might have led to the sinking of the heavy cruiser U.S.S. Indianapolis, the ship that carried the atomic bomb used on Nagasaki, shortly after she had delivered the bomb. This novel also includes an extremely powerful account (and to the best of my knowledge, one which is extremely close to real historical events) of the tragic sequence of events which followed the sinking, one of the worst disasters in US naval history.
Downtiming the Night Side (1985)
NSA agent Ron Moosic is assigned to a nuclear power plant – a cover for a secret project sending observers back in time. When terrorists take it over and send two of their own back to change the past, Moosic is sent in pursuit. But they are all pawns in a time game to conquer the Earth.
The Identity Matrix (1982)
Victor Gonser finds himself trapped in one body after another as he unwillingly becomes part of a skirmish over Earth by two alien races.
Jungle of Stars(1976)
Paul Carlton Savage died on July 20, 1969, in Vietnam — but that was only the start of his troubles! Approached by a mysterious entity called The Hunter, Savage was offered immortality in exchange for his services in The Hunter’s continuing war against The Bromgrev. Suddenly, Savage found himself pitted against an enemy he had never seen, an enemy who could be anyone, anywhere, at any time . . . an enemy determined to destroy him and all who got in his way. And in this raging intergalactic war between Good and Evil, Savage discovered that he couldn’t be sure whose side he was on . . . .
The Messiah Choice (1985)
Sir Robert McKenzie, owner of the Magellan Corporation, dies suddenly in a mysterious and grisly way. His daughter may be next, for a Satanic cult is determined to herald the arrival of the apocalypse. Greg MacDonald unravels the mystery of the cult, run by scientists with a distorted sense of duty and a computer that may be the Antichrist itself.
The Moreau Factor (2000)
THE EVOLUTION OF TERROR
A hard-living reporter long past his Pulitzer Prize-winning prime, Chuck Vallone is about to meet a renowned geneticist who needs to clear his conscience. But when Vallone arrives at their rendezvous, he finds the D.C. hotel swarming with government agents. The scientist’s room is now a grisly slaughterhouse splattered with blood–but no sign of a body.
Vallone knows he has the story of the century, especially when he receives a mysterious package filled with a computer disk and strange samples of DNA. Now he’s determined to uncover the truth. But it’s no brave new world Vallone will be exploring; rather, a deadly depraved one ruled by preeminent scientists. And this powerful cadre intends to make Vallone both eyewitness and executor of their final ferocious plan . . .
Priam’s Lens (1999)
Humans had finally gone to the stars, as the dreamers had always hoped; celestial stretches of the galaxy became the playgrounds of a new spacefaring race. But now these worlds were being taken over by Titans, creatures with unimaginable, godlike powers, supremely indifferent to humanity’s survival.
There was one chance to stop them. Helena, one of the Titan-dominated planets, concealed an untapped, hundred-year-old weapon–Priam’s Lens. Getting to Helena would not be difficult, but activating the lens was another matter. No one had ever returned from a Titan encounter. They simply disappeared–status unknown.
Now a small ragtag crew made up of scientists, warriors, a priest, and a stowaway–naval officer Gene Harker–were ready to pit themselves against the greatest power in the universe. With the help of a mad space pirate, they descended upon the deadly planet. They will succeed–or die trying . . .
A War Of Shadows (1979)
PROGRESS REPORT:
Cornwall, Nebraska – 894 catatonic, 86 dead
Boland, California – 1200 blind
Berwick, Maine – 2100 severely mentally retarded
McKay, Maryland – 2300 with complete loss of memory
Small towns, each wiped out as surely as if bombed off the face of the earth.
The president’s announcement was simple: "My fellow Americans, the people of the United States are under attack. Terrorists are using germ warfare against us and we must take extraordinary enforcement measures. I will ask Congress to declare a state of national emergency…"
The Web of the Chozen (1978)
Nobody beats Bar Holliday.
He was paid to find the Terraformable worlds, new planets for his corporation to plunder. Up until the day he came upon Peace Victory, an abandoned generation ship hovering ominously above a definitely habitable planet, he believed nobody ever could.
Nobody beats Bar Holliday….because he was never satisfied with anything lower than first place, because he was always the oddball, in charge of his own welfare, his own destiny…a man determined to make his mark in the world and win games at any cost.
NOBODY EVER BEATS BAR HOLLIDAY….because he only took the wrong chances at the right times. But on the planet Patmos, where everything looked safe, but nothing was, Bar Holliday had at last met his match!
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