The Maker Of Universes

World of Tiers #1

by Philip José Farmer, Jack Gaughan (Illustrator)

When Robert Wolff found a strange horn in an empty house, he held 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 were not those our starry galaxy knows.
For that other universe was a place of tiers, world upon world piled upon each other like the landings of a sky-piercing mountain. The one to blow that horn would ascend those steps, from creation to creation, until he would come face to face with the being whose brain-child it was.

But what if that maker of universes was a madman? Or an imposter? Or a super-criminal hiding from the wrath of his own superiors?
THE MAKER OF UNIVERSES is unlike any science-fiction novel you have ever read, it is wonderfully unique.

191 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1965

About the author

Philip José Farmer was an American author, principally known for his science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories. He was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, but spent much of his life in Peoria, Illinois.

Farmer is best known for his Riverworld series and the earlier World of Tiers series. He is noted for his use of sexual and religious themes in his work, his fascination for and reworking of the lore of legendary pulp heroes, and occasional tongue-in-cheek pseudonymous works written as if by fictional characters.