Ace 51624 (1980). Reprint edition. Cover Art by Boris Vallejo
Ace also published the first edition of the novel with a different cover by Jack Gaughan.
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This is the first novel in Farmer’s World of Tiers series. They are set within a series of artificially-constructed universes, created and ruled by decadent beings who are genetically identical to humans, but who regard themselves as superior, the inheritors of an advanced technology they no longer understand.
Robert Wolff finds a strange horn in an empty house that holds the key to a different universe. To blow that horn would open up a door through space-time and permit entry to a cosmos whose dimensions and laws are very different from our own. That other universe is a place of tiers, world upon world piled upon each other like the landings of a mountain. The one to blow that horn would ascend those steps, from creation to creation, until he comes face to face with the being whose brainchild it was. But what if that maker of universes was a madman? An imposter? A super-criminal? That is the premise of Farmer's novel.
Ace 51624 (1980). Reprint edition. Cover Art by Boris Vallejo
Ace also published the first edition of the novel with a different cover by Jack Gaughan.
www.flickr.com/photos/57440551@N03/14800538221/in/album-7...
This is the first novel in Farmer’s World of Tiers series. They are set within a series of artificially-constructed universes, created and ruled by decadent beings who are genetically identical to humans, but who regard themselves as superior, the inheritors of an advanced technology they no longer understand.
Robert Wolff finds a strange horn in an empty house that holds the key to a different universe. To blow that horn would open up a door through space-time and permit entry to a cosmos whose dimensions and laws are very different from our own. That other universe is a place of tiers, world upon world piled upon each other like the landings of a mountain. The one to blow that horn would ascend those steps, from creation to creation, until he comes face to face with the being whose brainchild it was. But what if that maker of universes was a madman? An imposter? A super-criminal? That is the premise of Farmer's novel.