Philip Jose Farmer's The Dungeon Books

WELCOME TO THE DUNGEON It is a fortress where fantastic twists of time and space hold travelers from a dozen worlds captive. It is a prison in which cyborgs, swordsmen, eight-legged aliens, and beautiful women struggle side by side against their unknown captors. It is a trap within whose confines the known laws of nature and of science are suspended and the impossible is commonplace. It is an island in a dark and distant galaxy, a territory from which there is no return until an adventurer from Earth arrives, seeking his brother. From the heart of darkness to the edge of the unknown, this is the quest of Clive Folliot, explorer and hero! The return of a classic 'shared world' fantasy series created by Philip José Farmer, award-winning author of the RIVERWORLD saga. Plunging into a vast prison that spans a planet, Clive Foliott faces a fantastic world of dwarves, cyborgs and aliens unlike anything he has ever imagined. It is a multi-levelled collection of beings from the hidden folds of time and space. Trapped somewhere inside is Neville Foliott, Clive's twin brother and no creature in the Dungeon will stop Clive from finding him!

The reader is submerged in a strange nineteenth-century land know as "The Dungeon"--a dangerous multi-level helix filled with bizarre beings from far-off galaxies and unknown times--and must find a way out or face certain death

Reunited with his twin brother Neville, Clive Folliot must lead his group through the dangerous world of the dungeon to the Palace of the Morning Star

The Hidden City: Nearing the zenith of their quest, Clive and Neville Folliot and their comrades from time and space are scattered through a ruined city. Beneath the decaying streets waits the greatest danger of all: the Ren and the Chaffri, inscrutable masters of the Dungeon! The Final Battle: Fleeing from the mysterious creators of the Dungeon, Clive breaks through to the ninth level. Stranded in a freezing polar wilderness, he struggles to find his missing comrades and to triumph at last against the murderous masters of the Dungeon!

While escaping from the unknown creators of the Dungeon, Clive Folliot breaks through to the ninth level and finds himself stranded alone in a harsh polar wilderness that bears a striking resemblance to Earth

Clive and Neville Folliot and their companions in the Dungeon face their ultimate peril in the Ren and the Chaffri, the masters of the Dungeon maze

Finding himself on a vast prison planet on which his twin brother is trapped, Clive Foliott encounters an array of adversarial dwarves, cyborgs, and aliens from different parts of time and space. Original.

Neville Folliot, a 19th century explorer, goes missing and his brother Clive sets out to find him. He stumbles across "The Dungeon", a place of strange atmospheric conditions, beings from distant galaxies and hidden pockets of time. Descending into the depths of an unknown planet, Clive Folliot and his band of heroes struggle to survive the traps of a strange multi-leveled prison. None of the intrepid characters from the far reaches of time and space know how or why they landed in the confines of the Dungeon or how they may escape. Their only clues to the intrigues of the Dungeon appear briefly in the journal of Clive's lost twin, Neville. In this fantastic abyss of serpents and spiders, aliens and cyborgs, Clive and his companions continue the quest for Neville and for a way home.

Philip José Farmer, bestselling author of Riverworld, introduces the climatic volume of fantastic adventure within the confines of THE DUNGEON Escape—and victory? Fleeing from the mysterious creators of the Dungeon, Clive Folliot breaks through to the ninth level suddenly, completely alone. Stranded in a freezing polar wilderness, he faces certain death from the cold, but one urgent question drives him onward. His new surroundings bear frightening similarities to the world Clive left behind so long ago. Has he fought through the entire Dungeon—only to discover that the Earth itself is the ninth and final level? Joined by a monster more horrible—yet more human—than anything else he has yet encountered, Clive struggles to find his missing comrades and to triumph at last against the murderous masters of the Dungeon! THE FINAL BATTLE by Richard A. Lupoff With fantastic illustrations by Robert Gould, winner of the World Fantasy Award