Gear Cube involve either half turns or a full rotation. It has six stationary centers, each with a different color, that always stay opposite from another specific center. White is always opposite of yellow. Blue is always opposite of green. Red is always opposite of purple. Each center determines what color that side will be. The centers are exactly based on the original Rubik's Cube. They are connected by a three dimensional cross with screws and springs allowing for less tension. Many cube solvers use the same notation when completing a cube, whether they are working on the original Rubik's Cube, the
The Carnelian Cube the individualist world one of rampant vanity and violence, in which megalomaniacal bully-boys like Colonel Richard Fitzhugh Lee uneasily dominate a population of extreme egocentrics defensive of their "originality" and touchy about being told what to do. It is also a more fantastic place, in which claims of ESP or the ability to raise spirits tend to be real. Hiring a medium-provided spirit to do the dirty work, Finch again obtains his current world's counterpart of the carnelian cube and makes his escape, this time hoping to regain his original existence as an archaeologist reconstructing the past. Finch awakens in