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Deyv odchádza od svojho kmeňa, aby si našiel ženu. Sprevádza ho mutovaný pes a mačka. Cestou spoznáva rastlinného muža Sloosha a peknú Vanu, ktorú však považuje za menejcennú, lebo jej ukradli vajce duše. Pri pátraní po zlodejovi preživajú množstvo neuveriteľných dobrodružstiev a dozvedia sa, že Zem čaká neodvratný zánik. Hľadajú záchranu pre seba a celé ľudstvo i pre ostatných tvorov, obývajúcich planétu, a nachádzajú zázračnú bránu do nového sveta…

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 galxy 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.

Twentieth-century scientist Ulysses Singing Bear had no idea his experiments with atomic stasis would result in a twenty-million-year journey to a world peopled by the descendants of present-day mammals. It was the world of Awina, the cat-woman who impossibly loved Ulysses. It was the planet of the mammoth continent-spanning intelligence-The Tree, whose branches touched the heavens and whose roots clasped hell-who knew that Ulysses, the newly-awakened Stone God, could destroy his reign. To enable his species to survive, Ulysses had to find a human mate. To do so, and to fulfill the single condition set by his worshippers, he had to confront The Tree. It would have been an easy task for a god, but he was only a man-and the only man at that... Originally published as an ACE paperback in 1970, The Stone God Awakens has been reprinted numerous times throughout the '70s and into the '80s, but is still one of Philip José Farmer's lesser-known works. And that is a shame because, as Danny Adams (co-author with Philip José Farmer of The City Beyond Play and Dayworld: A Hole in Wednesday) spells out in his introduction, it is "a breathless mix of adventure, intellect, and myth."

"One of the most imaginative worlds in science fiction!"--"Booklist". Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Milton Firebrass, once Mark Twain's enemy and now his greatest ally, plans to build a giant airship that can fly to the North Pole of Riverworld. Once there, he hopes to learn the secret of the mysterious tower that dominates the landscape and find the answer to his most urgent question: could the tower contain the Ethicals, the enigmatic beings that created Riverworld? Meanwhile, Jill Gulbirra is challenged for the job of piloting the airship by none other than Cyrano de Bergerac. As if there were not enough challenges facing the crew, they soon suspect there is an agent of the Ethicals among their number, plotting their destruction ..

Here are all mysteries revealed, all quests completed, in the fabulous planet of Riverworld THE MAGIC LABYRINTH is the most heralded science fiction event of recent times. It is the culminating achievement of the epoch-making Riverworld Series which has been pronounced the most daring, wide-ranging and speculative in the annals of science fiction. Here Philip José Farmer concludes the adventures of his all-star cast - Sir Richard Burton, Mark Twain, Jack London, Cyrano de Bergerac, Hermann Goering, Peter Frigate and literally everyone who has ever lived - all resurrected now along the banks of an enormous river on a mysterious planet known as Riverworld. (Source: back cover)

The Tiers series chronicles the adventures of both Robert Wolff, a man from our world transported through space-time to a cosmos with dimensions and laws different from our own, and Kickaha the Trickster (a.k.a. Paul J. Finnegan, also from our contemporary world). Separately and together, the two heroes contend against the Lords who rule the separate universes, of which the marvelous many-leveled World of Tiers is the center. Mythological and legendary creatures and characters abound: centaurs and harpies, mermaids and Indians, aliens and beautiful women.