61. Gushue.net :: /books.php farmer, philip José To Your Scattered Bodies Go farmer, philip José - The Fabulous Riverboat farmer, philip José - The Book of philip José farmer http://gushue.net/books.php

Gushue.net home friends photos computers ... about April 2007 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Contact Email: chris@gushue.net AIM (laptop): xarckl AIM (desktop): ChrisGushue MSN (laptop): cgushue@gmail.com MSN (desktop): chris@blackplasma.net ICQ: sucks. News Jul 01 2004 - 11:52 AM NDT If you have received any spam from (randomtext)@blackplasma.net, I apologize. There isn't really anything I can do about it except complain, since some spammer(s) have decided to abuse my domain name for that crap. Just goes to show how badly email is broken. Trackback August 30 2004 - 19:10 PDT I'm disabling Trackback on all of the existing gushue.net entries, due to recent spam. Not something I want to do, but spam is making the internet an annoying place to be. Oh, and I switched to Dreamhost way back in February, I just never updated this sidebar news about it :) Server switch January 25 2004 - 11:59 PST After my web server being down for a while, and having a stupid Linux distribution installed on it (RedHat), I decided to host it locally on my own server for now. It's a slower system on a slower connection. Which sucks, but at least I can enjoy managing it on a Debian system. One of these days I'll get some decent webhosting for it.

62. Ook - Trout Fishin' It was in the philip José farmer section. I pulled it off the shelf and was stunned to have a long lost secret revealed. farmer was in fact the writer, http://ookworld.com/troutfishin.html

ook index TROUT FISHIN' Concerning VENUS ON THE HALF SHELL by Kilgore Trout...er... While browsing in a new second hand bookshop/coffee bar recently (you can't mention books without coffee it seems, these days), I decided to glance at the science fiction section. I always look for an old paper back edition of Again, Dangerous Visions , an anthology of short stories edited by Harlan Ellison. I had enjoyed the first volume and haven't been able to find this long lost sequel. I haven't actually read any science fiction since my teens, back when I was a voracious reader. The original Dangerous Visions was here on the shelf but no sequel in sight. I was about to turn away but a title caught my eye. Venus on the Half Shell In the early 70's, Farmer was having a bit of writer's block and decided to try his hand at writing as a different person. Farmer was a big fan of Kurt Vonnegut, who was quite popular at the time and (in my opinion) at his peak back then. In Slaughterhouse Five , a writer of cheap soft porn novels is mentioned and a brief excerpt is cited as part of the story. The mythical writer was named Kilgore Trout. The book cited was Venus on the Half Shell . I remember reading Slaughterhouse Five for school and was then amazed to find Venus in a store. It looked like some sort of joke and even had a picture of the mysterious Trout on the back cover (Farmer in a silly false beard). Back then I assumed that Vonnegut wrote it for kicks and so placed it next to my copy of

63. Philip José Farmer - Wikiquote philip José farmer (born 26 January 1918) is an American author, principally known for his science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories, http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Philip_José_Farmer

Philip Jos© Farmer From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. Philip Jos© Farmer (born 26 January ) is an American author, principally known for his science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories, especially those of his Riverworld series. Contents Sourced Sestina of the Space Rocket (1953) The Riverworld series To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971) ... edit Sourced Here and Now are needles which Sew a pattern black as pitch, Waiting for the rocket's light. Can imagination act Perpendicular to fact? Can it be a kite that flies Till the Earth, umbrella-wise, Folds and drops away from sight? "Imagination" in America Sings (1949); re-published in Pearls From Peoria Eat rich strange fish, grow long bright feathers, press Form's flesh around thought's rib, and so derive From the act of beauty, beauty of the act. Miles above the Earth we know, Fancy's rocket roars. Below, Here and Now are needles which Sew a pattern black as pitch, Waiting for the rocket's light. "Imagination" in America Sings Beauty in this Iron Age must turn From fluid living rainbow shapes to torn And sootened fragments...

64. Franz Rottensteiner- Playing Around With Creation: Philip José Farmer Writing in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction for March, 1961, Alfred Bester singled out philip José farmer as one of seven SF authors meriting http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/2/rottensteiner2art.htm

Science Fiction Studies #2 = Volume 1, Part 2 = Fall 1973 Franz Rottensteiner Playing Around with Creation: Philip José Farmer Writing in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction for March, 1961, Alfred Bester singled out Philip José Farmer as one of seven SF authors meriting special praise: "Mr. Farmer's is the true courage, for he has the strength to project into the dark where no preformed attitudes wait to support him .... Mr. Farmer often shocks because he has had the courage to extrapolate a harmless idea to its terrible conclusion" (p80). Let's take a look at such extrapolating; and To Your Scattered Bodies Go, the first of a series of stories, might be an appropriate subject, having won a "Hugo" as the most popular SF novel of 1971 among American fans. Population is distributed in different areas of the river valley according to a fixed ratio: 60% of a particular nationality and century, 30% of some other people, usually of a different time, and 10% from any time ,and place. Food is no problem, since every individual is equipped with a "grail" that delivers to him sustenance, such as beefsteaks, and other commodities, including cigarettes: as far as food is concerned, this afterlife is a Land of Cockayne if you are careful not to lose your "grail". But in most other respects it is a jungle, with men preying on each other, with warfare among the various groups and small states, and "grail slavery." In fact, this episodic novel is a chain of various battles, adventures (mostly of a bloody kind) and fights that the heroes experience while traveling in this worldand what better excuse for a quest than a gigantic meandering river?

65. Review: To Your Scattered Bodies Go By Philip José Farmer farmer sucks all of the sense of wonder out of the idea in the first twenty pages and then uses the setting for an obnoxious, pointless, http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/scattered.html

The Mount Russ Allbery Reviews Water Witch To Your Scattered Bodies Go Series: Riverworld #1 Publisher: Berkley Printing: September 1971 Format: Mass market Pages: The problem with finishing the remaining Hugo winners I've not read is that there is generally some reason why I've not already read them. With To Your Scattered Bodies Go , it was just a bad feeling. Often those feelings are wrong. This time, it wasn't. This is the first book of the Riverworld series, which is one of those great, memorable ideas that people talk about and refer to when reading other books. Everyone who has ever lived is resurrected on the banks of a huge river, all at the same time, naked and with their own personal magic devices that give them food and other basic necessities. It's a great hook, giving the author a chance to not only play with historic figures but look at culture clashes (and strange alliances) between human cultures that otherwise never could have met. Farmer sucks all of the sense of wonder out of the idea in the first twenty pages and then uses the setting for an obnoxious, pointless, unemotional adventure story with no ending. Add to that clunky writing, halting narrative flow, rampant sexism, and an overly-simplified world, and you get one of the worst Hugo winners I've dragged myself through. I'm not particularly fond of the pulp writing style, but I can still get pulled into the story if it's told with enough emotional energy and enough action. Farmer, though, falls quickly into the trap of describing everything in great detail, whether the reader cares about its exact appearance or not, while giving short shrift to character development and treating emotions as scientific observations. It's a horrible example of telling rather than showing. By the time he finished boring me with the world introduction, describing the construction of a settlement, walking through the investigations of the few artifacts around, and getting the characters into a position to do something, half the book was gone and I no longer cared about anyone in it.

66. The Fix | The City Beyond Play By Philip José Farmer And Danny Adams Being the early labors of philip José farmer and the later workings of his grandnephew, Danny Adams, novella The City Beyond Play is a pristine piece of http://thefix-online.com/reviews/city-beyond-play/

Search Search for: Go Home About Forum Newsgroup ... Contact The City Beyond Play by Philip Jos© Farmer and Danny Adams By Paul Abbamondi October 25, 2007 Being the early labors of Philip Jos© Farmer and the later workings of his grand-nephew, Danny Adams , novella The City Beyond Play is a pristine piece of science fantasy. The fantasy half revolves around a secluded cut of California re-created to represent a pre-17th-century Europe, known to all its accepted inhabitants as Scadia, while the science half represents the hand that makes the dragons and haunted castles within possible. It also allows for better living standards, giving lords, ladies, and lamenting bards such things as proper plumbing—the best of both worlds being the motive. Wilson Gore, misheard often as Will Son of Gore, is a man on the run from the law. He seeks both solitude and social stature in the throwback community, knowing that the odds are well against him on the Outside. The time period is the near-future, he knows a fair amount of the archaic language, and he hopes to slide by undetected within Scadia’s borders. That is, if he isn’t killed first by not following the Rules. Within moments, Gore involuntarily becomes Sir Bobaunce’s stableboy and soon after that meets the desirably unattainable woman—Lady Melisounde. Cue wide eyes. A juggling act then ensues: there’s a climb of Scadia’s social ladder, an escape from a Federal Agent, a rescue of a kidnapped maiden, and enough duels, duels, duels to put

67. SF REVIEWS.NET: The Maker Of Universes / Philip José Farmer While not exactly classics themselves, philip José farmer s World of Tiers series is a collection of highly energetic and enjoyable adventures in a classic http://www.sfreviews.net/makerofuniverses.html

BOOKS BY TITLE Note: Titles beginning with articles of speech ("The XX") will be listed as "XX, The" A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z AUTHORS BY LAST NAME e.g.: Larry Niven will be under "N" A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z YEAR OF RELEASE Pre-1950 MAIN MENU HOME GREETING from T. M. Wagner FAQ THE RATINGS AWARD WINNING BOOKS LINKS LETTERS OF COMMENT THE MAKER OF UNIVERSES Book cover art by Boris Vallejo. AUTHOR'S SITE World of Tiers je ne sais quoi . Monsters and alternate worlds and an eagle woman and I think there may have even been a bear — oh my! This is the kind of "all bets are off" adventure storytelling we don't see any more. The protagonist is Robert Wolff, a 66-year-old World War II veteran who has never been able to recall his childhood. Dissatisfied with the mundanity of his later life, and married to a woman with whom he hasn't gotten along in years, Wolff seems resigned to a mundane fate as he and his wife find themselves house-hunting in Arizona. In a basement closet of one house, Wolff thinks he hears the improbable sound of a trumpet call; his surprise is only compounded when, upon opening the closet, he finds himself gazing not at musty old coats but into another world entirely. Wolff sees the mysterious figure with the horn, and the man, who seems not only to know Wolff but is expecting him, throws Wolff the horn before the portal between worlds closes.

68. Concat SF Collector’s Core Checklist - Books farmer, philip José A Feast Unknown (1969); farmer, philip José Flesh philip José The Other Log of Phileas Fogg (1973); farmer, philip José http://www.concatenation.org/sfguidebooks.html

Concat SF collector’s core checklist - Books Novels, Novellas, and Collections of Shorts) [Up: Concatenation Film Checklist Key ! = warning see either title or author entry in guide’s hard copy (entries in brackets) = not recommended Adams, Douglas Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Aldiss, Brian Billion Year Spree Aldiss, Brian Hothouse series (available in collected form as a novel) Aldiss, Brian Non-Stop (1958, revised 2000) Anderson, Poul The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul Saturn Game, The Anderson, Poul There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul Queen of Air and Darkness, The Asimov, Isaac Caves of Steel, The Asimov, Isaac End of Eternity, The Asimov, Isaac Foundation series:- Forward the Foundation Foundation Foundation and Earth Foundation and Empire Foundation’s Edge Prelude to Foundation Second Foundation Asimov, Isaac Gods Themselves, The Asimov, Isaac Gold Asimov, Isaac (ed) Hugo Winners, The Asimov, Isaac Naked Sun, The Asimov, Isaac Nightfall and Other Stories Asimov, Isaac Pebble in the Sky Ballard, J G Crystal World, The Ballard, J G

69. Mark/Space: Anachron City: Library: Authors: Philip José Farmer A bibiliography with links to related literary indices. http://www.euro.net/mark-space/PhilipJoseFarmer.html

The Green Odyssey (1957, novel, science fiction... Ballantine Books , New York, US, pbk... extraterrestrial adventure) Flesh A Woman a Day Strange Relations (1960, short stories, science fiction... Ballantine Books , New York, US, pbk... includes a 'John Carmody' story from July 1955... taboo-breaking) The Lovers (1961, novel, science fiction... Ballantine Books , New York, US, pbk... based on the 1952 short story... taboo-breaking) River of Eternity (written 196?, novel, science fiction... original version of 'Riverworld' series... eventually published by Phantasia Press , US, 19) The Cache from Outer Space / The Celestial Blueprint (1962, science fiction... Ace Double, New York, US) Fire and the Night (April 1962, novel, mainstream...Regency Books, Evanston, Illinois, US, pbk... interracial love affair... taboo-breaking) Inside-Outside (1964, novel, science fiction) Tongues of the Moon (August 1964, novel, science fiction...Pyramid Books, New York, US, pbk, SBN 515-2260-75) The Cache from Outer Space (1965, science fiction...

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