I was looking for a book to read when I found a fantasy book from 1984 titled The River of Dancing Gods by Jack L. Chalker. I found this by pure luck; I've never heard of the author before. A quick search told me that he is a prolific American science fiction and fantasy author of over 60 works. Unfortunately, he passed away in 2005 with an unfinished novel and more in planning.
Anyway.
I searched the synopsis and here's what I found on goodreads :
I think this is going to be my first ever fantasy novel. I've never read any before, even the popular ones like Harry Potter or Narnia. The only fiction books I've read aside from mangas and light novels are some Goosebumps, some The Three Investigators, some Sherlock Holmes, and Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie.
Anyway.
I searched the synopsis and here's what I found on goodreads :
Doesn't that sound like isekai to you? So, I read the first chapter and true enough, it is in fact an isekai story! This is personally the earliest isekai story that I've ever read (I've never read Alice in Wonderland). What's funny to me is that instead of a truck sending someone, here a trucker is the one that got sent to another world to save the world from imminent destruction. That got me interested so I decided to give it a try and see where the story takes me.Life had not been kind to Joe and Marge. Now, according to the stranger who met them on a road that wasn't there, they were due to die in nineteen minutes, eighteen seconds. But the ferryboat that waited to take them across the Sea of Dreams could bring them to a new and perhaps better life.
There lay a world where fairies still danced by moonlight and sorcery became real. Joe could become a mighty-thewed barbarian warrior. Marge could be beautiful and find her magical self.
And it was even as Throckmorton P. Ruddygore, the strange wizard, had promised. But there was a great deal more, as they soon learned.
This was a world where Hell still strove to win its ancient war and demon princes sent men into battles of dark magic. It was a world where Joe and Marge must somehow help prevent the coming of Armageddon.
I think this is going to be my first ever fantasy novel. I've never read any before, even the popular ones like Harry Potter or Narnia. The only fiction books I've read aside from mangas and light novels are some Goosebumps, some The Three Investigators, some Sherlock Holmes, and Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie.