Career and family life
He was natural around Baltimore, Maryland. He earned the postgraduate degree inside history from Johns Hopkins University, and taught history at a high school level. He was too a lecturer at the Smithsonian Institution, the National Institutes of Health, & many colleges & universities, mostly in science fiction and technology cases. Inside 1963 Chalker & deuce friends founded a Baltimore Science Fiction Society. Chalker married [http://www.evawhitley.net Eva C. Whitley] within 1978; they got deuce sons, [http://www.davechalker.com/ David W. Chalker] (born December 19th, 1981) and [http://www.meteorologistlife.com/ Steven L. Chalker] (born September 4th, 1991).

Death

In September 18 2003, during Hurricane Isabel, Chalker was rushed to the hospital because of a diabetic heart attack.

Chalker was diagnosed by having congestive heart failure on December 7, 2004 when rushed to the hospital again using leg pains & heavily external respiration when walking. He was hospitalized around critical trouble, upgraded to stalls in December 9, though he didn't regain consciousness until December 15. When many supplementary weeks within deterioriating afflictiin, & many transfers to different hospitals, he died on February 11, 2005 of kidney failure and sepsis in Bon Secours of Baltimore, Maryland.

Chalker and SF
A writers he liked to scroll through involved Eric Frank Russell, James White, some Philip José Farmer, the early function of Raymond F. Jones and Robert A. Heinlein, Jack Vance, and others too numerous to mention. From either January 1965 to November 2004, he missed just a single World Science Fiction Convention. Chalker's awards involved a Daedalus Award (1983), The Gold Medal of the West Coast Read of Books (1984), Skylark Award (1985), Hamilton-Brackett Memorial Award (1979), when well as others of varying prestigiousness. He was the candidate for the John W. Campbell Award twice and for the Hugo award twice. He was posthumously awarded a Phoenix Award by the Southern Fandom Confederation on April 9, 2005. Within 1967 Chalker founded a Baltimore Science Fiction Society and he was a Three-term financial officer of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Chalker was too a co-joint author (by owning Mark Owings) of The Science Fantasy Publishers (1991, updated annually), promulgated by [http://www.miragepress.com Mirage Press, Ltd], which was the Hugo Award campaigner inside 1992.

He is perchance better known for his Well World series of novels, but he likewise wrote numerous more novels (virtually a lot, but not all, a portion of series), & at least nine short stories. Several of his works require a few physical transformation of the main characters. E.g., in the Easily Globe novels, immigrants to a Easily Globe come transformed from either their original form to be the member of one of the hundreds to thousands of animate mintage that inhabit that unreal planet. A second exampele would exist as that a Wonderland Gambit series resembles traditional Buddhist jataka-type reincarnation stories set inside an SF environment. There are hearsay that Wonderland Gambit will get the motion-picture show within two or three years, because of an announcement mass produced by [http://www.meteorologistlife.com Steven Chalker] all about the script existence processed. At a period of his dying, Chalker left behind of these bare novel, Chameleon.

Bibliography

The Well of Souls series
Midnight at a Easily of Individuals, Del Rey, 1977 (ISBN 0743435222) Exiles at a Easily of Persons, Del Rey, 1978 (ISBN 0743436032) Quest for the Easily of Persons, Del Rey, 1978 A Link to of Nathan Brazil, Del Rey, 1980 (ISBN 0345283678) Twilight at a Easily of Persons, Del Rey, 1980 (ISBN 0345283686) A Sea is Good of Stars, December, 1999 Ghost of the Easily of Humans, 2000

The Watchers of the Well series
Echoes of the Easily of Humans, Del Rey, trade soft-cover, Could, 1993 Shadow of the Easily of Humans, Del Rey Feb. 1994 Gods of the Easily of Mortals, Del Rey, 1994

The Four Lords of the Diamond series
Lilith: The Snake in the Grass, Del Rey, 1981 Cerberus: The Wolf in the Stack, Del Rey, 1982 Charon: a Dragon at the Gate, Del Rey, 1982 MedusThe: A Tiger per After part, Del Rey, 1983 A 4 Lords of the Diamond, A Science Fiction Book Club (omnibus edition), 1983

The Dancing Gods series
A Flow of any stream of Dancing Gods, Del Rey, 1984 Demons of the Dancing Gods, Del Rey, 1984 Payback of the Dancing Gods, Del Rey, July, 1985 Songs of the Dancing Gods, Del Rey, August, 1990 Horrors of the Dancing Gods, 1994 A Dancing Gods: A portion 1, Del Rey, November, 1995 A Dancing Gods 2, Del Rey, September, 1996

The Soul Rider series
Spirits of Flux & Anchor, Tor Books, 1984 Empires of Flux & Anchor, Tor Books, 1984 Masters of Flux & Anchor, Tor Books, January, 1985 A Birth of Flux & Anchor, Tor Books, 1985 Toddlers of Flux & Anchor, Tor Books, September, 1986

The Rings of the Master series
Lords of the Middle Dark Del Rey Books, Will, 1986 (ISBN 0345325605) Pirates of the Thunder, Del Rey Books, March, 1987 Warriors of the Storm, Del Rey Books, August, 1987 Masks of the Martyrs, Del Rey, February, 1988

The G.O.D. Inc series
A Labyrinth of Dreams. Tor Books, March, 1987 A Shadow Dancers, Tor Books, July, 1987 A Maze in the Mirror, Tor Books, January, 1989

The Changewinds series
Whenever a Changewinds Blow, Ace - Putnams, September, 1987 Riders of the Winds, Ace Books, Will, 1988 War of the Vortex, Ace - Putnams, October, 1988

The Quintara Marathon series
A Demons at Rainbow Bridge, Ace-Putnam's, hardback, September, 1989 A Do to Chaos Keep, Ace - Putnams, Will, 1991 A Ninety Trillion Fausts (the.k.the. 90 Trillion Fausts), Ace - Putnams, October 1991

The Wonderland Gambit series
A Cybernetic Walrus, Del Rey, trade pb within November, 1995 A March Hare Network, 1996 A Hot-Wired Dodo, Del Rey, Feb. 1997

The Three Kings series
''Balshazzar's Serpent, Baen Books 1999 Melchior's Fire, Baen Books, 2001. Kaspar's Pack, 2003

Stand-alone novels
The Jungle of Stars, Ballantine, Del Rey, 1976 (ISBN 0345289609) A Web of the Chozen, Del Rey, 1978 & a Devil May Drag Professional people Under, Del Rey, 1979 The War of Shadows, Ace: An Parallel Book, 1979 Dancers in the Afterglow, Del Rey, 1979, 1982 A Devil's Voyage, Doubleday, 1980 A Unit matrix, Timescape: Pocket edition, 1982 Downtiming a Nighttime Side, Tor Books, Will, 1985 A Messiah Selection, St. Martins - Blue Jay, Might, 1985 A Red Tape War (using Mike Resnick and George Alec Effinger). Tor hardback, April, 1991 Priam's Lens, Del Rey 1997 A Moreau Factor, Del Rey Feb., 2000 Chameleon (2004, unpublished)

Collection and anthology
Dance orchestra on the Titanic, Del Rey Books, July, 1988 (short stories) Hotel Andromeda [edited by], Ace, 1994

Besides a short stories involved within Dance orchestra on the Titanic, Chalker wrote at least of these more short story:

"And Now Falls the Cold, Cold Night". Surrogate Presidents, ed. Mike Resnick, Tor 1992.

Omnibus collections of novels
A Watchers at a Easily, Science Fiction Book Club, 1994 Changewinds'', Baen, August, 1996