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The World of Tiers: Volume One (edition 1996)

by Philip Jose Farmer

Series: World of Tiers (Omnibus 1-3)

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The first three adventures set in the amazing realm created by the Hugo Award-winning author of Riverworld. 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.… (more)
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Title:The World of Tiers: Volume One
Authors:Philip Jose Farmer
Info:Tor Books (1996), Edition: 1st, Paperback, 456 pages
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The World of Tiers, Volume 1 (Maker of Universes, Gates of Creation, Private Cosmos) by Philip José Farmer

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This book is pure fantasy. That is to say it is purely a fantasy not that it is a pure example of the genre. Old man falls through a hole into another world. Falls away from his shrewish wife and unfulfilling life and into a world where people are naked, sexually liberated, and where he starts getting younger.

This is just the first of the many worlds contained in this volume. Each one has clearly been thought out and built in great detail. If only the action stayed in them for long enough to make the description of the landscape, people and cultures seem worthwhile. A bigger fan of world building would have enjoyed it more but for me it was falling on death ears.

The plot wasn't good enough to keep me hooked throughout. The three books all centred around quests but it never really seemed likely that the good guys wouldn't win. It was incredibly predictable and the characters where nothing special.

I'd recommend this book for when you just need some light reading. There is nothing mind numbingly bad about it, it just isn't exceptional. ( )
  Staramber | Sep 13, 2006 |
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The first three adventures set in the amazing realm created by the Hugo Award-winning author of Riverworld. 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.

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