Author Jack L. Chalker dies

[anderclayton]

http://www.sfwa.org/news/jchalker.htm

[Joubert[$]]

Wow. He was relatively local, and I hadn't heard that yet. I just finished another of his books. I really liked him. I also didn't realize he had gained so much weight from the looks of that picture. The ones I've seen of him show him as a much smaller man. He's also holding a cane or some other means of support in the SFWA photo. But still, 60 is awfully young.

[Redlass]

I'd just recently read about him for the first time--and had him on my list as someone that would be interesting to read. It sounded like he had a light touch and was very talented.

[hymie[$]]

His Well of Souls series was very well-received, although (you should pardon the pun) he went to the well a little too often. Most of his novels involved characters going through massive physical and mental transformations. I found his recent books to be much weaker than his earlier ones, a not-uncommon phenomenon among prolific genre writers. He was a guest at many science-fiction conventions that I attended. In recent years he had become very heavy and walked with difficulty using a cane.