Chalker jack

Jack Chalker was born December 17, 1944 in Baltimore, Maryland. After leaving school, Jack Chalker was engaged in a variety of things - from the engineering support of rock concerts in the open air in the 60s to computer typing. He collected a huge collection of science fiction and adventure books, at one time this collection was considered one of the best private collections.

In 1958, Jack Chalker joined the Washington Science Fiction Association . In 1960, he began to publish the amateur science fiction magazine Mirage. In 1963, he founded the Baltimore Science Fiction Society .

After graduating from high school, he wanted to become a criminal lawyer, but financial problems forced him to start teaching. Soon Chalker takes a bachelor's degree in history and English at Towson State College and receives a master's degree in art and literature in the history of ideas at Johns Hopkins University. From 1966 to 1978, having retired after the end of military service, Chalker taught history and geography in the Baltimore city school system, until finally success in writing did not allow him to engage exclusively in literary activities.

In addition to the amateur magazine, he founded the publishing house Mirage Press, Ltd. , which published more than thirty books of various genres. Chalker was actively engaged in reading science fiction lectures in private groups, universities, in particular in such an institution as the Smithsonian . He was a member of the Sierra Life Club . Chalker was a big lover of ferries.

In 1978, he married Eve Whitley. The wedding was celebrated on an ancient ferry in the middle of the river.

Product Cycles

Well of Souls

• 1977 - Midnight at the Well of Souls
• 1978 - Exiles at the Well of Souls (Exiles at the Well of Souls)
• 1978 - Quest for the Well of Souls
• 1980 - The Return of Nathan Brazil
• 1980 - Sunset at the Well of Souls: Nathan Brazil's Legacy (Twilight at the Well of Souls: The Legacy of Nathan Brazil)

The Four Lords of the Diamond

• 1981 - Lilith: A Snake in the Grass (Lilith: A Snake in the Grass)
• 1982 - Cerberus: The Wolf in the Fold
• 1982 - Charon: A Dragon at the Gate
• 1983 - Medusa: A Tiger By the Tail

Soul Rider

• 1984 - Spirits of Flux and Anchor
• 1984 - Empires of Current and Anchor (Empires of Flux and Anchor)
• 1985 - Masters of Flux and Anchor
• 1985 - The Birth of Flux and Anchor
• 1986 - Children of the current and anchors (Children of Flux and Anchor)

Dancing Gods

• 1984 - The River of the Dancing Gods
• 1984 - Demons of the Dancing Gods
• 1985 - Vengeance of the Dancing Gods
• 1990 - Songs of the Dancing Gods
• 1995 - Horror of the Dancing Gods (Horrors of the Dancing Gods)

Rings of the Master

• 1986 - Lords of the Middle Dark
• 1987 - Pirates of the Thunder
• 1987 - Warriors of the Storm
• 1988 - Masks of the Martyrs (Masks of the Martyrs)

Winds of Change (Changewinds)

• 1987 - When the winds of change blew (When the Changewinds Blow)
• 1988 - Riders of the Winds
• 1988 - War of the Maelstrom

B.O.G. Corporation (GOD Inc.)

• 1987 - The Labyrinth of Dreams
• 1987 - The Shadow Dancers
• 1989 - The Maze in the Mirror (The Maze in the Mirror)

Quintara Marathon

• 1989 - The Demons at Rainbow Bridge
• 1991 - Escape to the stronghold of Chaos (The Run to Chaos Keep)
• 1991 - The Ninety Trillion Fausts

Watchers at the Well

• 1993 - Echoes of the Well of Souls
• 1994 - Shadow of the Well of Souls (Shadow of the Well of Souls)
• 1994 - Gods of the Well of Souls

The Wonderland Gambit

• 1995 - The Cybernetic Walrus
• 1996 - The March Hare Network
• 1997 - The Strongly Linked Dodo (The Hot-Wired Dodo)

Untitled Dilogy

• 1999 - The Sea is Full of Stars
• 2000 - Ghost of the Well of Souls

Three Kings

• 2000 - Balshazzar's Serpent
• 2001 - Melchior's Fire
• 2003 - Caspar's Box

Selected Novels

• 1976 - A Jungle of Stars
• 1978 - The Web of the Chosen
• 1979 - And the Devil Will Drag You Under
• 1979 - A War of Shadows
• 1979 - Dancers in the Afterglow
• 1980 - The Devil's Voyage
• 1982 - The Identity Matrix
• 1985 - Downtiming the Night Side
• 1985 - The Messian Choice
• 1991 - The War of Bureaucratic Slingshots: The Collective Science Fiction Novel (The Red Tape War: A Round-Robin Science Fiction Novel) - Burmese novel / et al. with Mike Resnick and George Alec Effinger
• 1999 - Priam's Lens
• 2000 - The Moreau Factor

Tale

• 1977 - No Hiding Place
• 1978 - Orchestra with the Titanic (Dance Band on the Titanic)
• 1984 - In the Dowaii Chambers

Stories

• 1978 - In the Wilderness (In the Wilderness)
• 1979 - Stormsong Runner
• 1992 - Now fall on a cold, cold night (Now Falls the Cold, Cold Night)

• 1963 - nomination for the Hugo Prize in the Fanzine category for editing the Mirage magazine
• 1978 - nomination for the prize of the Locus magazine for the novel Midnight at the Well of Souls
• 1979 - Hamilton-Brackett Award Memorial Award
• 1980 - Skylark Award for Merit for the Genre
• 1982 - Nomination for the Locus Magazine Award for the novel Lilith: Snake in the Grass
• 1983 - Dedalus Award
• 1984 - Gold Medal of West Coast Review of Books
• 1989 - Nomination for the prize of the Locus magazine for the collection “Orchestra with the Titanic”
• 1992 - Nomination for the Hugo Prize for the book Publishers of Scientific Fantasy: A Critical and Bibliographic History (3rd edition)
• 1994 - Collector's Prize (Los Angeles) "for his contribution to collecting"

• Warriors of the storm. Masks of the martyrs. Series "Coordinates of miracles." Publishing house AST-LTD, 1997. Translation from English by V. M. Glinka, O. V. Podobryanskaya ISBN 5-15-000322-0
• Winds of Change (When the Changewinds Blow). Series "The Age of the Dragon." AST Publishing House LLC, 1997. Translated from English by V. M. Glinka. ISBN 5-7841-0749-6
• Riders of the Winds. Series "The Age of the Dragon." AST Publishing House LLC, 1997. Translated from English by V. M. Glinka and V. Yu. Kravchenko. ISBN 5-7841-0760-7
• War of the Maelstrom. Series "The Age of the Dragon." LLC "Publishing house AST-LTD", 1997. Translation from English by Yu.A. Kryaklina. ISBN 5-15-000380-8