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Mavra Chang was once a master criminal, notorious throughout the galaxy. But for eleven long years she has been trapped in a nonhuman body on the Well World-the master control planet for the universe, where untold numbers of strange races exist, separated by barriers erected by the mysterious, vanished race that built the Well World billions of years ago. Orbiting the planet is a planetoid concealing Obie, a supercomputer that could restore Mavra Chang to her original form-if she can reach it. Unfortunately, the only spaceship on the planet is hidden in the northern hemisphere, a place no living creature can survive. She soon learns that her enemies are plotting to eliminate her, steal the ship, and escape from the Well World. But many others have planned her demise before, and Mavra Chang is still alive and well-which is more than can be said of those who once wished her ill.… (meer)
Sort of a combination of Riverworld and Ringworld, the inhabitants of the Well World are a random mess of alien creatures, all fighting for control, or to leave. There's a ton of opportunity for adventure and strange meetings, and Chalker is one of the best at making such things happen. ( )
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And for the dead as well...
John W. Campbell, Jr. who taught me to write stuff
August W. Derleth who was always interested
Clark Ashton Smith who dreamed strange, infectious dreams
Seabury Quinn who cared as much for his friends as they did for him
Edmond Hamilton a wonderful man who liked the Well
Ron Ellik who should have lived to see this
H. Beam Piper who was never too busy
and to those two incongruous, ghostly specters, H.P. Lovecraft and Stanley G. Weinbarum, who have haunted this field since before I was born.
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A dark road is dangerous anywhere; but here, on the Well World, in a nontech hex whose diurnal creatures literally became comatose after sundown, it was moreso.
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Mavra Chang was once a master criminal, notorious throughout the galaxy. But for eleven long years she has been trapped in a nonhuman body on the Well World-the master control planet for the universe, where untold numbers of strange races exist, separated by barriers erected by the mysterious, vanished race that built the Well World billions of years ago. Orbiting the planet is a planetoid concealing Obie, a supercomputer that could restore Mavra Chang to her original form-if she can reach it. Unfortunately, the only spaceship on the planet is hidden in the northern hemisphere, a place no living creature can survive. She soon learns that her enemies are plotting to eliminate her, steal the ship, and escape from the Well World. But many others have planned her demise before, and Mavra Chang is still alive and well-which is more than can be said of those who once wished her ill.
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