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Farmer Philip Jose:     more books (100)

A Feast Unknown by Philip Jose Farmer, 1995-01 Blown (Panther Books) by Philip Jose Farmer, 1985-04-18 Behind the Walls of Terra (World of Tiers) by Philip Jose Farmer, 1999-08 The Cache by Philip Jose Farmer, 1986-12-15 Myths for the Modern Age: Philip Jose Farmer's Wold Newton Universe The Wind Whales of Ishmael by Philip Jose Farmer, 1979-01-01 The Green Odyssey and Other Works by Philip José Farmer (Halcyon Classics) by Philip José Farmer, 2010-01-01 They Twinkled Like Jewels by Philip Jose Farmer, 2010-07-06 Dark Is the Sun by Philip José Farmer, 1982-03 Book Philip J Farmer by Philip Jose Farmer, 1982-02-01 THE CLASSIC PHILIP JOSE FARMER 1952 - 1964: Sail On Sail On; Mother; The God Business; The Alley Man; My Sister's Brother; The King of Beasts by Philip Jose (introduction by Martin H. Greenberg) (foreword by Isaac Asi Farmer, 1984-01-01 Philip Jose Farmer's The Image of the Beast by Philip Jose; Boxell, Tim (Grisly); Holms, Rand Farmer, 1979-01-01 Riverworld War (Philip Jose Farmer Society Series) by Philip Jose Farmer, 1980-04 The World of Tiers Series - Volume Two: The Gates of Creation / Philip Jose Farmer by Philip Jose Farmer, 1981

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41. World Of Tiers - Philip Jose Farmer's World Of Tiers
    WorldFAQ for philip jose farmer s world of tiers universe  
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    Extractions: Xenite.Org FAQs on this day of Saturday, Jan 26, 2008 NOTE: Because of excessive abusive behavior such as flaming and spamming, Xenite.Org no longer endorses participation in the news groups. These FAQ documents are not being updated and are only being maintained for historical purposes. Xenite.Org operates moderated, volunteer fan forums at SF-FANDOM where a variety of viewpoints and experiences are welcomed and respected. From: Mich...@xenite.org (Michael Martinez) Subject: WorldFAQ: Philip Jose Farmer's Tier World Date: 1998/12/24 Message-ID: Last Updated: November 8, 1998 Other information was supplied (knowingly or otherwise) by: Pat Banchy Ryan Haksi Jens Kilian Geoffrey A. Landis Scott R Sadusky Roger Zelazny's Amber Jerry Pournelle's Codominium Isaac Asimov's Foundation Christopher Stasheff's Gramarye ... Robert E. Howard's Hyboria

42. Strange Relations By Philip Jose Farmer
    Thanks to the philip José farmer website. Introduction. philip José farmer invented sex. OK. That may be a bit of an exaggeration, but it is fair to say  
    http://www.scifidimensions.com/May06/strangerelations.htm
    
    Extractions: www.scifidimensions.com About Advertise Archives ... Win Cool Stuff! Institutional Member of SFWA All original content is John C. Snider unless otherwise indicated. All opinions expressed are solely those of the authors. No duplication without express written permission. "Sex Sex Sex" A review of Strange Relations by Philip José Farmer Published by Baen Books in the US and UK Trade Paperback, 496 pages February 2006 Retail Price: $13.00 ISBN: 1416509348 Review by William Alan Ritch © 2006 Thanks to the Philip José Farmer website Introduction OK. That may be a bit of an exaggeration, but it is fair to say that Phil Farmer introduced sex to science fiction. In the early 1950s, when Farmer started publishing his SF stories, the only real markets for the stories were the Science Fiction magazines - the most famous of which were Astounding Science Fiction Galaxy , and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction . Although no longer technically pulp magazines they still maintained many of the traditions of their pulp ancestors. The most obvious tradition: no sex.

43. Philip José Farmer - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
    philip José farmer (born January 26, 1918) is an American author, principally known for his science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories.  
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_José_Farmer
    
    Extractions: Terre Haute, Indiana , United States Occupation Novelist, Short story writer Genres Fantasy Science fiction Website Official website Philip Jos© Farmer (born January 26 ) is an American author , principally known for his science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories . He was born in Terre Haute, Indiana but spent much of his life in Peoria Illinois , where he currently lives. Farmer is best known for his Riverworld series and the earlier World of Tiers series. He is noted for his use of sexual and religious themes in his work, his fascination for and reworking of the lore of legendary pulp heroes, and occasional tongue-in-cheek pseudonymous works written as if by fictional characters. The Riverworld series follows the adventures of such diverse characters as Richard Burton Hermann G¶ring , and Samuel Clemens through a bizarre afterlife in which every human ever to have lived is simultaneously resurrected along a single river valley that stretches over an entire planet. The series consists of

44. Philip José Farmer - International Bibliography
    All editions worldwide of philip José farmer s novels. Plus his stories, non fiction, works about and more, much more. With photos and many hundreds of  
    http://www.xs4all.nl/~rnuninga/
    
    Extractions: This week, just before Farmer's birthday, did publisher Subterranean Press release and ship the trade edition of the new collection Venus on the Half-Shell and Others , "..in which the author slips out of his own skin and into that of fictive authors..." (see publisher's website ). If you want a copy of this collection, you should order it now, before they are all gone. Previous Farmer books from Subterranean were sold out in no time!

45. The SF Site Featured Review: The Best Of Philip José Farmer
    It is an attitude which many modern novelists would do well to copy, and one reason why I can heartily recommend The Best of philip José farmer to anyone  
    http://www.sfsite.com/05a/pj223.htm
    
    Extractions: The Lovers , published in Startling Stories , won a Hugo Award in 1953. He won another in 1968 for the story "Riders of the Purple Wage," which was written for the Dangerous Visions series, and a third in 1972 for the first novel of the Riverworld series, To Your Scattered Bodies Go . Farmer has written also under a number of pseudonyms, the best known being Kilgore Trout. Advertisement 'Jill was a very bright child, but what if too many TV shows at too early an age had done her some irreparable harm? What if, a few years from now, she could easily see, and even define, the distinction between reality and unreality on the screen, but deep down in her there was a child that still could not distinguish?' Entirely missing from this collection are any examples of Farmer's World of Tiers series, or his more controversial semi-pornographic novels such as Flesh Blown and Image of the Beast . I was also a little disappointed to find there was only a fleeting glimpse of Farmer's adventure oriented reimaging of Doc Savage, and the traditional Tarzan, who appear as the Apeman and Doc Caliban, the bastard sons of Jack the Ripper, in the novel

46. Philip José Farmer, Science Fiction Writer
    philip José farmer. 1918 . Grand Master Award 2001 Greenberg, Martin H., Introduction, in The Classic philip José farmer, 1952-1964, Crown, New York,  
    http://www.hycyber.com/SF/farmer_philip_jose.html

47. Philip José Farmer Is 2001 Grand Master0 - SFWA News
    Beginning with his publication of The Lovers in the August 1952 issue of Startling Stories, philip José farmer has pioneered the exploration of crucial  
    http://www.sfwa.org/news/01gm.htm
    
    Extractions: Announcement from SFWA President: I'm delighted to announce that our new Grand Master for 2001 is Philip José Farmer. Beginning with his publication of "The Lovers" in the August 1952 issue of Startling Stories, Philip José Farmer has pioneered the exploration of crucial human relationships and dimensions in science fiction, and inspired generations of writers from Chip Delany to Jonathan Lethem. This highest honor of SFWA is voted upon by all former Presidents and current members of the Board of Directors. Previous SFWA Grand Masters include Robert A. Heinlein, Jack Williamson, Clifford D. Simak, L. Sprague de Camp, Fritz Leiber, Andre Norton, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Alfred Bester, Ray Bradbury, Lester del Rey, Frederik Pohl, Damon Knight, A. E. van Vogt, Jack Vance, Poul Anderson, Hal Clement, and Brian Aldiss. This year's Grand Master Award will be presented at our Nebula Awards Banquet in Los Angeles on April 28. Further details on our Nebula weekend will appear soon in the OnLine Update, SFWA Bulletin, and SFWA Forum. With all best wishes

48. MonkeyBrain Books
    MYTHS FOR THE MODERN AGE philip JOSÉ farmer’S WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE collects for the first time those rarelyseen essays. Expanding the family even farther  
    http://www.monkeybrainbooks.com/Myths_for_the_Modern_Age.html
    
    Extractions: List Price: $14.95 In his classic “biographies” of fictional characters ( Tarzan Alive and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life Hugo- and Nebula-award winning author Philip José Farmer introduced the Wold Newton family, a collection of heroes and villains whose family-tree includes Sherlock Holmes, Fu Manchu, Philip Marlowe, and James Bond. In books, stories, and essays he expanded the concept even further, adding more branches to the Wold Newton family-tree. MYTHS FOR THE MODERN AGE: PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER’S WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE collects for the first time those rarely-seen essays. Expanding the family even farther are contributions from Farmer’s successors—scholars, writers, and pop-culture historians—who bring even more fictional characters into the fold. Editor Win Scott Eckert holds a B.A. in Anthropology and a Juris Doctorate. In 1997, he posted the first site on the Internet devoted to expanding Philip José Farmer’s concept of the Wold Newton Family. He has recently served as an expert consultant on crossovers involving characters from pulp fiction and Victorian literature for a lawsuit concerning a major motion picture. Win lives with his family near Denver, Colorado.

49. SCI FICTION - CLASSICS
    had thought about living on other days of the week. » The SlicedCrosswise Only-on-Tuesday World by philip José farmer. Illustration by Paul Lombardi.  
    http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/farmer/

50. EBooks - Philip José Farmer's The Dungeon 3 By Charles De Lint, Richard A. Lupo
    This book is part of a series philip José farmer s The Dungeon This third volume of philip José farmer s shared world series The Dungeon contains Book  
    http://www.ereader.com/product/detail/12620
    
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51. Tarzan Alive
    Through the brilliant, exhaustive research pf philip José farmer, the true, astonishing saga of Lord Greystoke — better known as Tarzan of the Apes — can at  
    http://www.wwu.edu/~stephan/Tarzan/tarzlive.html
    
    Extractions: New York: Popular Library Tarzan's imperiled birth on the shores of Africa an intimate account of his upbringing by Kala (proven more hominoid than gorilloid) . . . his lifelong love for Jane (38-19-36) the adventures in the golden city of Opar travels to England, Paris, and Hollywood . . . the previously unknown years as an R.A.F. pilot ancestry to Sherlock Holmes, Nero Wolfe, "Doc Savage," and Bulldog Drummond A feast of knowledge for Tarzan freaks, adventure lovers, and truth seekers everywhere. Chronology Farmer's "Addendum 5," limited to events bearing directly on the Tarzan story. date Links to the Novels ONE: I-1 1888, May 11 or 23 John and Alice Clayton sail from Dover for Freetown. TWO: I-2 1888, June The Claytons sail on the Fuwalda for an Oil Rivers port. 1888, late June The Claytons are stranded in the jungle of French Equatorial Africa (Gabon) by the mutineers. THREE: I-3 1888, Nov. 21, a Wednesday A "great ape" attacks the Claytons. 1888, Nov. 22, a Thursday

52. Philip José Farmer - Wikipédia
    Translate this page philip José farmer (1918-) est un écrivain américain, connu pour ses romans et nouvelles de science-fiction/fantastique. Il a inventé le concept de Wold  
    http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_José_Farmer
    
    Extractions: Aller   : Navigation Rechercher Pour les articles homonymes , voir Farmer Cet article fait partie de la s©rie Science-fiction La SF   l’©cran autre A B C ... Z Le monde de la SF Auteurs BD de SF Fandom Prix litt©raires ... Cat©gorie:science-fiction Philip Jos© Farmer -) est un ©crivain am©ricain , connu pour ses romans et nouvelles de science-fiction fantastique . Il a invent© le concept de Wold Newton Une grosse partie de son œuvre s'int©resse   la r©interpr©tation de personnages historiques ou romanesques. Par exemple, The Other Log of Phileas Fogg , qui remplit les trous du calendrier dans Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours de Jules Verne ; sa s©rie de romans Le Fleuve de l'©ternit© Riverworld ) suit les aventures de Richard Francis Burton Cyrano de Bergerac Jean sans Terre Hermann Goering et Samuel Clemens , autour d'un monde ©trange de la vie apr¨s la mort, o¹ on a myst©rieusement ressuscit© au mªme moment tous les gens qui avaient v©cu de la pr©histoire jusqu'en Il fit rentrer dans le monde r©el le personnage de Kilgore Trout , cr©© par Kurt Vonnegut en publiant sous ce pseudonyme le roman Venus on the Half-Shell N© en 1918 dans l'Indiana, Philip Jos© Farmer, qui vit   Peoria, Illinois, est l'un des derniers grands ©crivains am©ricains de

53. Philip José Farmer - Wikipedia
    Translate this page The Classic philip José farmer 1952-1964 (1984 - deutsch Jenseits von Raum und Zeit, Literatur von und über philip José farmer im Katalog der Deutschen  
    http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_José_Farmer
    
    Extractions: Wechseln zu: Navigation Suche Philip Jos© Farmer 26. Januar in North Terre Haute Indiana ) ist ein amerikanischer Autor, der durch seine ¼ber 70 Science-Fiction - und Fantasyromane und ¼ber 100 Kurzgeschichten bekannt wurde. Farmer, dessen GroŸmutter m¼tterlicherseits aus dem th¼ringischen Oberellen stammte, ist verheiratet, hat zwei Kinder und lebt heute in Peoria (Illinois). Seine erste Science-Fiction-Erz¤hlung O'Brien and Obrenov erschien 1946 und war nicht besonders vielversprechend. Doch 1952 wurde Farmer mit der Erz¤hlung The Lovers (dt. „Die Liebenden“) schlagartig bekannt. Die Geschichte handelt von der sexuellen Beziehung eines Mannes von der Erde zu einem auŸerirdischen Wesen. Zum ersten mal wurde das Thema Sex in eine Science-Fiction-Geschichte eingebunden und verursachte im pr¼den Amerika der 1950er-Jahre einen handfesten Skandal. Ein Jahr sp¤ter wurde Farmer als bester Nachwuchsautor mit dem Hugo Award geehrt. Eine Romanfassung der Erz¤hlung erschien 1961. Im Nachfolgenden schrieb Farmer diverse Erz¤hlungen, die sein Image als Tabubrecher kr¤ftigten, wie

54. Chronological List
    New York Ace 1968 World of Tiers; Down in the Black Gang (nv) If Mar 1969; My Father the Ripper (ex) A Feast Unknown, philip José farmer,  
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    Extractions: Previous Table-of-Contents FADDIS, CONNIE (stories) FADIMAN, CLIFTON (Paul) (books) (stories) FAINLIGHT, RUTH (Esther) (stories) FAIRFAX, JOHN (stories) FAIRMAN, PAUL W(arren) (books) (stories) Brothers Beyond the Void (ss) Fantastic Adventures Mar 1952 The Missing Symbol (ss) Fantastic Nov/Dec 1952 Deadly City (nv) If Mar 1953 The Cosmic Frame (ss) Amazing May 1955 The Body Hunters (nv) Fantastic Feb 1959 The Forgetful Robot The Brown Package (ss) The Forgetful Robot Culture for the Planets (ss) The Forgetful Robot Delenda Est Carthago (ss) The Forgetful Robot The Gallant Lady (ss) The Forgetful Robot Interlude in the Desert (ss) The Forgetful Robot Long Hop (ss) The Forgetful Robot Lost in a Junkyard (ss) The Forgetful Robot Mastermind of Zark (ss) The Forgetful Robot The Minefield (ss) The Forgetful Robot Not Born to Greatness (ss) The Forgetful Robot Phantoms of Zark (ss) The Forgetful Robot The Pit (ss) The Forgetful Robot Robots Should Stick Together (ss)

55. Strange Horizons Reviews: Pearls From Peoria By Philip José Farmer, Reviewed
    philip José farmer’s new collection, Pearls from Peoria , (Subterranean Press, 2006) is not the place to find his most popular works (those abound elsewhere  
    http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2006/11/pearls_from_peo.shtml
    
    Extractions: 15 November 2006 Philip Jos© Farmer’s new collection, Pearls from Peoria Subterranean Press , 2006) is not the place to find his most popular works (those abound elsewhere, including The Best of Philip Jos© Farmer all Fans will also rejoice that Pearls official PJF fan site ) puts it late in the collection, “We could have named this book The Short Cut to Collecting Philip Jos© Farmer Since it’s packed with such a variety of material, editor Paul Spiteri chose to arrange it by theme rather than chronologically (which he rightly admits could have been confusing). Considering the nature of Farmer’s long myth- and legend-oriented career, Spiteri appropriately opens the collection with the category “Myths and Paramyths.” “Myths are to be taken seriously,” Farmer says in the section’s epigraph. “Paramyths are also to be taken seriously, but they have an element of the absurd. But that element is just as serious as the nonabsurd. One becomes the other.” That quote could sum up the driving force behind much of Farmer’s work. The myths presented here are well-known tropes twisted in ways both new and as strange or poignant as Farmer’s readers always expect. “Wolf, Iron, and Moth” is a werewolf tale with Farmer’s take on the overwhelming nature of compulsion. “Opening the Door” is an almost surreal dive into the nature of consciousness in relation to the external world and the dangers inherent when we learn to focus our will a little too well. “The Wounded” sees the tables of love turned on Cupid (not to mention modernizes his methods). “Heel” reveals that the Trojan War was apparently one big setup by extraterrestrial “gods” who were alien filmmakers, and their interference as chronicled in the

56. Philip José Farmer Book Covers
    Lester Dent’s brazen hero has appeared a number of times in the work of philip José farmer, a writer who’s spent much of his career laying bare the  
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57. Literature-Map: Philip José Farmer
    What else do readers of philip José farmer read? What else do readers of philip José farmer read? The closer two writers are, the more likely someone  
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58. Philip José Farmer - Garn's Guides
    philip José farmer Bibliography. philip José farmer s The Dungeon created by farmer but written by others. 1988, Volume 1 The Black Tower by Richard  
    http://www.geocities.com/garn13/bkphilipjosefarmer.html
    
    Extractions: Jonathan Swift Somers III, Leo Queequeg Tincrowdor, Kilgore Trout, John H.Watson, M.D. Born: January 26, 1918 Terre Haute, Indiana, USA First Published Short Story: In the March 1946 issue of Adventure magazine, "O'Brien and Obrenov" First Published Novel: In 1957 by Ballantine Books, The Green Odyssey Author's Homepage: www.pjfarmer.com Dayworld "The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World" from the anthology New Dimensions 1 edited by Robert Silverberg Dayworld Dayworld Rebel Dayworld Breakup Father John Carmody Night of Light expanded from "The Night of Light" Father to the Stars (5 stories) "The Night of Light" "A Few Miles" "Prometheus" "Father" "Attitudes" "Strange Compulsion" aka "The Captain's Daughter" from the magazine Science Fiction Plus "Some Fabulous Yonder" from the magazine Fantastic, Stories of Imagination

59. Philip José Farmer's World Of Tiers Series - Mad Professor
    Yesterday I wrote about philip José farmer s Riverworld series. Equally, and perhaps even more exciting is his World of Tiers series, beginning with the  
    http://madprofessor.net/2006/05/philip-jos-farmers-world-of-ti.html
    
    Extractions: Mad Professor Mark Frauenfelder reviews books, movies, software, tools, and toys By Mark Frauenfelder on May 4, 2006 5:43 PM Permalink Comments (1) TrackBacks (0) Riverworld series. Equally, and perhaps even more exciting is his World of Tiers series, beginning with the Maker of Universes and followed by The Gates of Creation and A Private Cosmos The first novel (published in 1965) starts out with a bang. An old man named Robert Wolff hears a trumpet call coming from a closet. He thinks he is going senile, but the closet is a portal to another world, filled with Edgar Rice Burroughs style adventures. The first three books have plenty of great death traps, puzzles, and surprises that I didn't see coming (I was 14 or 15 when I read them for the first time.) This collection has the first three books. The other books in the series are not very good. $11.67 on Amazon Books Listed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: TrackBack URL for this entry: http://madprofessor.net/cgi-bin/mt/MT-4.0-en/mt-tb.cgi/766 Cibbuano said: that's a pretty enticing cover... reminds me of old Piers Anthony novels...

60. Christopher Paul Carey » Myths For The Modern Age: Philip José Farmer’
    Download an index to Myths for the Modern Age philip José farmer’s Wold Newton Universe here. Visit The Official philip José farmer Home Page.  
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    Extractions: Cover art by John Picacio **Selected for Locus Magazine’s Recommended Reading for 2006 **A 2007 Locus Awards Finalist for Best Non-fiction Book **Read the reviews here From the publisher: In his classic “biographies” of fictional characters ( Tarzan Alive and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life ), Hugo- and Nebula-award winning author Philip Jos© Farmer introduced the Wold Newton family, a collection of heroes and villains whose family-tree includes Sherlock Holmes, Fu Manchu, Philip Marlowe, and James Bond. In books, stories, and essays he expanded the concept even further, adding more branches to the Wold Newton family-tree. MYTHS FOR THE MODERN AGE: PHILIP JOS‰ FARMER’S WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE collects for the first time those rarely-seen essays. Expanding the family even farther are contributions from Farmer’s successors—scholars, writers, and pop-culture historians—who bring even more fictional characters into the fold. Book Contents: Introduction: Myths for the Modern Age: Farmer’s Wold Newton Family and Shared Universe

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