One, a nymph named Chryseis, becomes his mate, but is soon captured by this forces of the Lord of world. Once inside, he sheds his old age and becomes strong and vigorous again.Īs Wolff explores his new world, he meets a collection of creatures he recognizes from Greek myth and legend. Apparently considered by many fans to be his best series, the World of Tiers begins with The Maker of Universes, in which 60-year-old Robert Wolff leaves his drab life, wife, and world behind when, while trying to buy a house, he opens a closet door to find a portal to another world and a man beckoning him in. That is to say, it was fast paced and full of adventure, danger, and beautiful women.

His imagination is certainly of the first rank.This World of Tiers omnibus was my first foray into the catalog of Philip Jose Farmer, and front to back, it could pretty much be judged by its Boris Vallejo cover. Praise for Philip José Farmer ?An excellent science fiction writer.?Isaac Asimov ? blend of intellectual daring and pulp fiction prose.?The New York Times ?Farmer offers his audience a wide-screen adventure that never fails to provoke, amuse, and educate. . . . But he?ll have to learn to play by the rules of a new realm in order to survive?and live to see another world . . . With his modern-day military and technical knowledge, Two Hawks becomes a prize that both armies covet.

Soon he comes to understand that, though a world war still rages, the Americans are absent?because they don?t exist, and neither does the land they?d come from. Then Two Hawks sees the soldiers: fur-clad men with shiny steel helmets shaped like wolf heads and armed with swords and arrows. Instead, there are dirt roads, trees, farms, and an unsettling quiet. Two Hawks bails out and survives, but when he reaches the ground, gone are the suburbs he saw from the sky.

Roger Two Hawks is on a bombing run over Romania when his aircraft is shot down and collides with a German plane midair. Two Hawks from Earth, an expanded and revised version of Philip José Farmer?s The Gate of Time, is the story of an Iroquois pilot in World War II.

From the New York Times?bestselling author of the Riverworld series: An alternate history classic in which the American continents never existed.

The Gate of Time by Philip José Farmer