Editing Jack L. Chalker (section)

===Novels===
Chalker is best known for his ''[[Well World]]'' series of novels, but he also wrote many other novels (most, but not all, part of a series, or large novels which were split into 'series' by the publishers), and at least nine short stories.

Many of Chalker's works involve some physical [[Shapeshifting|transformation]] of the main characters. For instance, in the ''Well World'' novels, immigrants to the Well World are transformed from their original form to become a member of one of the 1,560 [[Sentience|sentient]] species that inhabit that artificial planet.  Another example would be that the ''Wonderland Gambit'' series resembles traditional [[Buddhist]] [[jataka]]-type [[reincarnation]] stories set in a science fiction environment. Samantha Chalker announced that ''Wonderland Gambit'' might be made into a movie, but supposedly its close resemblance to ''[[The Matrix]]'' resulted in the project being canceled.<ref name="samantha chalker">{{cite web| url=http://www.meteorologistlife.com/| title=Meteorologist Life| access-date=2006-03-05| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050403161035/http://www.meteorologistlife.com/| archive-date=2005-04-03}}</ref>

At the time of his death, Chalker left one unfinished novel, ''Chameleon''. He was planning to write another novel, ''Ripsaw'', after ''Chameleon''.
<!--[[Image:Oct05 98.jpg|thumb|right|Chalker at a bookstore in October 1998, chatting with a couple of people before his session began. {{Deletable image-caption|Saturday, 4 September 2010|date=May 2012}}]]-->