The World of Tiers Volume One: The Maker of Universes, The Gates of Creation, and A Private Cosmos

This omnibus collects the first three novels in Philip José Farmer's World of Tiers series. Robert Wolff, living an unremarkable life in Arizona, discovers a secret doorway that transports him to the World of Tiers—a realm of ascending levels containing jungles, plains, medieval cities, and a Garden of Eden at its peak. The world is inhabited by creatures including nymphs, centaurs, merpeople, and other beings unknown on Earth. When Wolff's youth is restored, he embarks on an epic quest upward through the tiers alongside Paul Janus Finnegan, also from Earth and now called Kickaha, seeking Jadawin, the Lord of this world, to uncover truths about his own identity. Wolff and Kickaha confront feuding Lords who control their own private pocket universes, as well as the Bellers—conscious entities originally created as devices in the Lords' biolabs. Now waging war on the Lords, the Bellers infiltrate the bodies of creatures throughout the World of Tiers and hunt the Earth-born. The fate of all the worlds depends on the battle between the two earthlings and their disguised enemies. This edition presents the author's preferred text, reprinted from limited edition volumes published by Phantasia Press.