The war from the Well World has begun.

Antor Trelig, head of a ruthless interstellar syndicate, offers seized a supercomputer with godlike capabilities that could make him omnipotent. The Council offers master legal Mavra Chang any prize she desires if she can stop Trelig-and horrible, lingering loss of life if she fails. But neither Trelig nor Mavra provides taken the Well Globe into consideration. Constructed by the historic Markovians, the Well World controls the design of the cosmos. When the opponents are drawn across space towards the incomprehensible planet, they find themselves in fresh, alien bodies and in the center of a battle where strange races battle desperately-with the control of the complete universe as the prize.