Cerberus

This is a fantastic book. My favorite of this series, and one of my favorite of all time. This book does something that is rare in mainstream or fantasy, and not very common even in mysteries or science fiction. This is about about thinking, analyzing, and deducing. What does the character know for......more

I've been revisiting the science fiction of my youth, trying to see how my tastes and attitudes have evolved since then. Jack L. Chalker is near the top of the list. I remember loving this series as a early teen, although I didn't really remember why. Certainly there is enough action and some intere......more

The second volume of the Four Lords of the Diamond quadrology. In this book, Warden organism affects minds of the colonists, allowing them to shift bodies. This of course makes the goal to find and kill the Lord of the planet a bit harder. The style of the book is similar to the first book, Lilith: A......more

Sept. 19 71. Jack L. Chalker, Cerberus: A Wolf in the Fold [1982] 204 pages Cerberus is the second book in The Four Lords of the Diamond series. It opens with a kidnapping, which like the break-in that opens the first book is just background. The next fifteen pages or so is the general background to t......more

These books are totally bat shit crazy. An agent of The Authority is cloned four times and each clone sent to a different world in the Diamond System. The worlds in the Diamond system are ruled over by their Lords with absolute authority. Each more fucked up than the last. Each world has it's own weird......more