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''World of Tiers'' is a series of novels by [[Philip Jose Farmer]]. |
''[[World of Tiers]]'' is a series of novels by [[Philip Jose Farmer]]. |
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* [[Ancient Artifact]]: The Horn of Shambarimen. |
* [[Ancient Artifact]]: The Horn of Shambarimen. |
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* [[Author Avatar]]: Paul Janus Finnegan (note the initials). |
* [[Author Avatar]]: Paul Janus Finnegan (note the initials). |
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* [[Dimensional Traveler]]: Paul Janus Finnegan (AKA Kikaha the Trickster) and Robert Wolff spend much of the novels traveling through artificially created universes. |
* [[Dimensional Traveler]]: Paul Janus Finnegan (AKA Kikaha the Trickster) and Robert Wolff spend much of the novels traveling through artificially created universes. |
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* [[Interdimensional Travel Device]]: People can travel between the artificial universes of the setting by using gates. Gates can be activated by various means, including tokens and playing music on a special horn. |
* [[Interdimensional Travel Device]]: People can travel between the artificial universes of the setting by using gates. Gates can be activated by various means, including tokens and playing music on a special horn. |
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* [[Layered World]]: Says so, right in the series name. |
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* [[Portal Cut]]: One of the many interdimensional teleport gates is a trap that dismembers by severing the connection and the intruder. |
* [[Portal Cut]]: One of the many interdimensional teleport gates is a trap that dismembers by severing the connection and the intruder. |
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* [[Portal Network]] |
* [[Portal Network]] |
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Revision as of 19:38, 14 November 2017
World of Tiers is a series of novels by Philip Jose Farmer.
Tropes used in World of Tiers include:
- Ancient Artifact: The Horn of Shambarimen.
- Author Avatar: Paul Janus Finnegan (note the initials).
- Cool Gate: Inter-dimensional machines/gates.
- Dimensional Traveler: Paul Janus Finnegan (AKA Kikaha the Trickster) and Robert Wolff spend much of the novels traveling through artificially created universes.
- Interdimensional Travel Device: People can travel between the artificial universes of the setting by using gates. Gates can be activated by various means, including tokens and playing music on a special horn.
- Layered World: Says so, right in the series name.
- Portal Cut: One of the many interdimensional teleport gates is a trap that dismembers by severing the connection and the intruder.
- Portal Network
- Red Pill, Blue Pill: An aging man with a failed life and a shrewish wife is in the basement of a tract house he is buying when a door between the worlds opens up. He can stay with his living-death retirement or leap into the utter unknown. Soul-killing safety vs death-or-glory.
- Significant Monogram: Paul Janus Finnegan.
- Villainous Incest: Incest is perfectly acceptable among the Lords and Ladies of the pocket.
- World Shapes: The World of Tiers takes the form of a world-sized tower of Babel, just that the continent-sized layers (tiers) are way wider than they are tall. And the top layer has the Lord's palace on it.
- Year Inside, Hour Outside: Time in the pocket universes moves quite differently indeed.