For countless years, the strange and hauited place called World has been a land divided.  Beyond the stability of Anchor lies the chaos of the Flux, a land of strange passions and near magic, where flesh is mutable, and reality yields madness.

This is the tale of the making of that World, of a brilliant scientist who discovered a universe where mind rules matter, and of the courageous men and women who battled treachery, rebellion and hellish alien forces to found a colony there....