Robert Wolff encuentra un extraño cuerno en una casa dehabitada: la llave que habrá de franquearle el paso a un universo alucinante, distinto. Un soplo en el cuerno le abrirá la puerta del espacio-tiempo y le permitira acceder a un cosmos de dimensiones y leyes desconocidas. Ese otro universo es una conjuncion de mundos escalonados uno encima de otro, accesibles mediante una resonancia ocasional. Por ultimo, Wolff se encuentra cara a cara con el cerebro que ha creado este otro sistema. Pero, ¿quien es en realidad este Señor, hacedor de Universos?
After the Apocalyptic War, the decimated remnants of the French huddled in the Loire Valley were gradually squeezed between two new and growing nations. The Colossus to the north was unfriendly and obviously intended to absorb the little New France. The Colossus to the south was friendly and offered to take the weak state into its confederation of republics as a full partner...
Alan Green was not exactly a hero. In fact he liked peace just as well as the next man. Not that he was really afraid of that crazy, hot-blooded hound-dog Alzo, or even of the hounds gorgeous owner, the Duchess Zuni - who was also hot-blooded (to say nothing of the Duke). After all, these things were understood on this backward, violent planet, and a man could manage, provided he was alert twenty-four hours a day. And as a matter of fact, Alan was only normally apprehensive of his Junoesque, tempestuous (but altogether lovable) wife Amra. Delightful, demanding Amra - and her five uproarious kids. The trouble was, he was tired. And homesick. So when he heard of two other downed spacemen, he hitched a ride with a piratical merchant-captain on a windroller destined to carry him to the spaceship and thence to the peaceful green hills of Earth. But he had reckoned without the vagaries of the windroller, pirates, the "traveling islands," the rascally Captain, and various flora and fauna peculiar to this planet - all of which, it now seemed, regarded Alan with unnerving malevolence. And worst of all, Amra was determined that he should be a hero. Amra won.
Todos los que han vivido alguna vez en la Tierra resucitan en cuerpos sanos, jóvenes y fuertes, en un mundo desconocido surcado por un río. Alguien les provee de comida de forma milagrosa, pero no obtienen respuestas sobre el significado de esta extraña vida despues de la muerte. Millones de personas de todas las epocas de la Historia y de todos los lugares de la Tierra deben empezar de nuevo. Sera Richard Francis Burton quien se embarque en una increible aventura en la que, al igual que durante su vida en la Tierra trato de hallar las fuentes del Nilo, buscara los limites del nuevo mundo y de sus misteriosos benefactores navegando rio arriba.Estupenda demostracion del caracter curioso y a la vez terrorifico de la sociedad. Les ruego que hagan el favor de leersela. Merece la pena Manuel Nicolas Cuadrado, Ciencia-ficcion.comUna novela a medio camino entre Los viajes de Gulliver y El señor de los anillos Time
