Farmer's series about the Tiered World - a combination of "pocket universes," parallel worlds played by their unknown creators, whose technology, unimaginable by earthly standards, seems to be "divine." The authorities are the last representatives of the ancient race, which created a little more than a thousand Universes during its dawn. The rulers are the last representatives of the ancient race, which created a little more than a thousand universes during its dawn. Small, however - a little larger than our solar system. But arranged to the taste of the owner. Someone likes change - and a world appears where in one day a mountain can become a plain, and neighboring hills will be a thousand kilometers from each other