THE MAKER
OF UNIVERSES

Robert Wolff's discovery of a strange horn in an empty house catapulted him into the most incredible adventure of all time.  For that horn could open up a door through space-time to a cosmos with dimensions and laws totally different from our own.

The universe he entered was a place of tiers - world upon world piled on each other - and each level was different and more fantastic than the next.  In order to return to his home, Wolff would have to ascend each tier and contend with weird creatures - like Kickaha the Trickster, and Podarge the venomous eagle-woman - until he found his way to the topmost tier... and the god, or the madman, that ruled the universe.

THE MAKER OF UNIVERSES is the first of Philip José Farmer's amazing and original World of Tiers Books - some of the most thrilling and colorful science fiction adventures ever created.

THE GATES OF CREATION

Imagine a whole series of separate universes, made to suit the whims of a race of super-beings.  Imagine these universes with their own laws, cultures, creatures and ecologies - all existing solely to please the fancies of their individual master.

Then imagine one such universe constructed as a diabolical trap to destroy a single person - the man called Robert Wolff, one of the race of universe-makers, and once of Earth.  When the satanic Master-Lord, Urizen, kidnaps Wolff's wife, he forces Wolff to enter the deadly universe of ambushes, filled with every kind of tortuous snare that the evil mind of the Master-Lord can devise.

Wolff has only his courage and his wits with which to combat this cosmic maze - unless he can perform a miracle, he and Chryseis are doomed.

THE GATES OF CREATION is the fabulous second adventure in Philip José Farmer's World of Tiers Series.

A
PRIVATE
COSMOS

The prize-winning science-fiction writer Roger Zelazny writes:

"Philip Jose Farmer... can be stark, dark, smoky, bright, and any color of the emotional spectrum.  He has a fascinating sense of the Sacred and the Profane.  Put quite simply, he arouses awe.  He has the talent and the skill to handle the sacred objects every writer must touch in order to convert the reader, in that timeless, spaceless place called Imagination."

In A PRIVATE COSMOS, the third book about the World of Tiers, that other space-time continuum manufactured by THE MAKER OF UNIVERSES (Ace Book F- 367), Farmer takes up the adventures of the heroic rogue Kickaha.  It takes place shortly after the astonishing events of THE GATES OF CREATION (Ace Book F-412), but is an unique science-fiction experience on its own.  As Zelazny says in his introduction:

"Philip José Farmer is special. . . . Read his story and see what I mean."

BEHIND
THE WALLS OF TERRA

Paul Janus Finnegan was called Kickaha on the artificial universes created by that always feuding super-race known as the Lords.  Though he was a mortal Earthman, he had managed to survive every intrigue, war, test and opponent they could devise.

But it was when he found his way back to his own world that Kickaha faced the greatest dangers of his adventure-filled career.  For he knew the secrets of the powers that moved the cosmos,and this made him a threat - a target of the terrible hidden forces contending for this very universe.

"Philip José Farmer arouses awe...
Philip José Farmer is special."
Roger Zelazny

THE LAVALITE
WORLD

The lavalite world is a world of slow but constant change.  Here mountains rise from plains, or sink into rifts; new oceans form as vast hollows collapse and seas rush in.  There is only one escape from this world where the very landscape moves.  The one gateway to other universes is in the palace of the Lord Urthona.  Paul Janus Finnegan - also known as Kickaha - must reach it if he is to survive.  And he must do so despite the Lords Urthona and Red Orc, the hired thug McKay, flesh-eating vegetation on the run, beasts of prey, and planetary pseudopods.

THE LAVALITE WORLD:
perhaps Philip José Farmers finest achievement.