Winner of the Apollo Award . Finalist of the Nebula Award . Meet Francis Sandow, the near-immortal creator of the planets, one of the richest people in the galaxy of the thirty-second century, and even associated with one of the alien gods. Once he created the nightmarish Island of the Dead, embodying the painful images of Arnold Bklin, an earthly artist from the distant nineteenth century. And now, in order to escape from a mysterious enemy that can penetrate even into the depths of Sandow's subconscious, he will have to leave his personal planet and visit the Island in reality, not only in dreams. But even this threat pales in the face of a general galactic pandemic, the involuntary cause of which is Dr. von Heimek ... and which only Sandow can prevent. For the first time, a complete edition of the Francis Sandow series: two novels and additional materials New translations and new texts!The cycle about the creator of worlds Sandow is one of the peaks of the work of the science fiction classic Roger Zelazny . Omnibus, which includes a full cycle of works about the galactic adventurer and servant of the alien god Francis Sandow Two novels, a short story and a draft of an unpublished novel with author's comments. The story of the nightmarish Island of the Dead, which created Sandow himself and about the galactic epidemic, which threatens with extinction of all intelligent species, if Francis does not stop the trouble.