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Midnight at the Well of Souls

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Nathan Brazil, a cargo ship-for-hire owner, detours from his route to answer a distress call. A hidden stargate hurls him and his passengers to the Well World, the master control planet for the cosmos created by the now-gone godlike race who designed the universe. Now someone wants to find the Well of Souls to seize control of all the cosmos—and it's up to Nathan to stop them.

Themes
music
Subject
science
Audience
adult
Length
long · 448 pages

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