Gear Cube Cube. Three 3x3 cubes are very similar to the original: the Gear Cube Extreme, the Gear Cube Ultimate, and the Even Less Gears Cube. Gear Cube Extreme: Unlike the original Gear Cube with 12 total gears, the Gear Cube Extreme (also known as the Anisotropic Cube) has only eight gears. The top and bottom rows remain gear cogs, whereas the middle layer edge cogs have been removed. Taking away the middle layer cogs and replacing them with standard edges allows for different movement between rows. Due to the added straight edges, the cube can now make 90° turns on two
The Carnelian Cube humor, the less said the better". Frederik Pohl, writing in "Super Science Stories", praised the authors as having "produced some of the funniest fantasies ever to see print." Noting that ""The Carnelian Cube", almost alone among fantasy books, has never been published in magazine form" he "wonders how the magazines missed it." "Thrilling Wonder Stories" praised the novel as "earthy, talkative, [and] frequently witty," saying "The authors have given full range to a pair of highly fertile imaginations and the reader does not suffer thereby." "Fantasy Review"'s Kemp McDonald faulted the novel as scattershot and plotless, saying that "Characters and