Jack L. Chalker
Jack Laurence Chalker (1944–2005) was an American science fiction author.
For countless years, the strange and haunted place called World has been a land divided. Beyond the stability of Anchor lies the chaos of the Flux, a land of strange passions and near magic, where flesh is mutable, and reality yields to madness.
This is the tale of the making of that World, of a brilliant scientist who discovered a universe where mind rules matter, and of the courageous men and women who battled treachery, rebellion and hellish alien forces to found a colony there...