The World of Tiers Volume One / The World of Tiers (ePub)
The Maker of Universes, The Gates of Creation, and A Private Cosmos
(Sprache: Englisch)
The first three adventures set in the amazing realm created by the Hugo Award-winning author of Riverworld and "an excellent science fiction writer" (Isaac Asimov).
His past a mystery and his present unbearably mundane, Robert Wolff is simply trying to...
His past a mystery and his present unbearably mundane, Robert Wolff is simply trying to...
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The first three adventures set in the amazing realm created by the Hugo Award-winning author of Riverworld and "an excellent science fiction writer" (Isaac Asimov).
His past a mystery and his present unbearably mundane, Robert Wolff is simply trying to buy a new house in Arizona when he stumbles upon a secret doorway through space and time and enters the World of Tiers. Made up of ascending levels of jungles, plains, medieval cities, and, at the top, a Garden of Eden, and populated by fantastical creatures, from nymphs and centaurs to merpeople and strange amalgams nonexistent on Earth, it's beyond anything Wolff could have imagined in his previous humdrum existence. And when his youth is restored in the bargain, it seems he's truly found paradise.
But there are dark forces in this new world, and Wolff is plunged into an epic quest up through the tiers, accompanied by Paul Janus Finnegan, another earthling, now known as Kickaha. Wolff's journey to find Jadawin, the Lord of this world, will lead to answers about his own identity-and determine his fate.
Wolff and Kickaha will face off against feuding Lords-who hold the power to control private worlds of their own design-and the depraved Bellers. Devices originally created in the biolabs of the Lords, the Bellers are now conscious entities waging war on the Lords and their "pocket universes." As they infiltrate the bodies of creatures throughout the World of Tiers and hunt down the Earth-born, the survival of all the worlds hinges upon the battle between the strangers from Earth and enemies disguised as their allies.
This omnibus contains the author's preferred text, reprinted from the limited edition volumes published by Phantasia Press.
His past a mystery and his present unbearably mundane, Robert Wolff is simply trying to buy a new house in Arizona when he stumbles upon a secret doorway through space and time and enters the World of Tiers. Made up of ascending levels of jungles, plains, medieval cities, and, at the top, a Garden of Eden, and populated by fantastical creatures, from nymphs and centaurs to merpeople and strange amalgams nonexistent on Earth, it's beyond anything Wolff could have imagined in his previous humdrum existence. And when his youth is restored in the bargain, it seems he's truly found paradise.
But there are dark forces in this new world, and Wolff is plunged into an epic quest up through the tiers, accompanied by Paul Janus Finnegan, another earthling, now known as Kickaha. Wolff's journey to find Jadawin, the Lord of this world, will lead to answers about his own identity-and determine his fate.
Wolff and Kickaha will face off against feuding Lords-who hold the power to control private worlds of their own design-and the depraved Bellers. Devices originally created in the biolabs of the Lords, the Bellers are now conscious entities waging war on the Lords and their "pocket universes." As they infiltrate the bodies of creatures throughout the World of Tiers and hunt down the Earth-born, the survival of all the worlds hinges upon the battle between the strangers from Earth and enemies disguised as their allies.
This omnibus contains the author's preferred text, reprinted from the limited edition volumes published by Phantasia Press.
Autoren-Porträt von Philip José Farmer
Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) was born in North Terre Haute, Indiana, and grew up in Peoria, Illinois. A voracious reader, Farmer decided in the fourth grade that he wanted to be a writer. For a number of years he worked as a technical writer to pay the bills, but science fiction allowed him to apply his knowledge and passion for history, anthropology, and the other sciences to works of mind-boggling originality and scope.His first published novella, "The Lovers" (1952), earned him the Hugo Award for best new author. He won a second Hugo and was nominated for the Nebula Award for the 1967 novella "Riders of the Purple Wage," a prophetic literary satire about a futuristic, cradle-to-grave welfare state. His best-known works include the Riverworld books, the World of Tiers series, the Dayworld Trilogy, and literary pastiches of such fictional pulp characters as Tarzan and Sherlock Holmes. He was one of the first writers to take these characters and their origin stories and mold them into wholly new works. His short fiction is also highly regarded.
In 2001, Farmer won the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement and was named Grand Master by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Philip José Farmer
- 2017, 620 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- ISBN-10: 1504046013
- ISBN-13: 9781504046015
- Erscheinungsdatum: 08.08.2017
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Praise for Philip José Farmer“Farmer offers his audience a wide-screen adventure that never fails to provoke, amuse, and educate. . . . His imagination is certainly of the first rank.” ―Time
“Farmer’s blend of intellectual daring and pulp fiction prose found a worldwide audience. Sprawling, episodic works gave him room to explore the nuances of a provocative premise while indulging his taste for lurid, violent action.” —The New York Times
“The greatest science fiction writer ever.” —Leslie A. Fiedler, author of Love and Death in the American Novel
“An excellent science fiction writer, far more skillful than I am.” —Isaac Asimov
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