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Portraits
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23
May
2012
Meteor
House revealed the cover of The World of Philip
José Farmer: Portraits of a Trickster. This is
the third in a series of anthologies.
At this time no further information yet about the contents. This book
will be published this Summer, maybe in August.
The great cover art has been done by Keith Howell.
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Beverly
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22
May
2012
The
short story "The Oogenesis of
Bird City" (1970) originally was a part of the much longer,
and award winning story "Riders
of the Purple Wage" (1967).
Philip José Farmer in his afterword to the latter one:
«A
more detailed description of the physical construction of a community,
"The Oogenesis of Beverly Hills, Level 14", was cut out.»
Ted White in his introduction in Amazing:
«Rewritten to stand on its own feet, the story which follows
is
effectively the prologue to "Riders of the Purple Wage". In it we are
introduced for the first time to the City of Tomorrow...».
Illustration
by Mike Hinge in Amazing.
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All Titan
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21
May
2012
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A Wold
Newton Novel received |
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20
May
2012
The
Other Log of Phileas Fogg
is the first of a new series of books by Philip José Farmer
from
the UK publisher Titan Books. Most of their reissues are Wold Newton
Universe related works, as you can see on top of the cover (click on
the thumbnail at right).
While still in his teens Farmer read Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days
four or five times. More than thirty years had passed before he read
that novel again. Only at that time he discovered that the novel had
two stories, there was a second layer, a behind-the-scenes story. This
discovery was the reason Farmer started writing The Other Log of Phileas Fogg.
It was time the truth would be told...
Now, nearly forty years after its first publication, Farmer´s
novel has been reissued. And his novel too has another layer. Something
I didn´t know of when I first read it. Phileas Fogg, the
protagonist, is a member of the Wold Newton Family. This makes the
novel related to the Wold Newton
Universe (WNU).
But we do not have to discover that for ourselves, like Farmer had to
do with Verne´s novel. Win Scott Eckert helps us with his two
afterwords in the book.
If you have read The
Other Log of Phileas Fogg
in the past then give it a second chance with this new edition. Win
Scott Eckert´s information in his afterwords is very
intriguing,
and after reading his information you can read the novel again with
completely new eyes.
I love the new edition from Titan Books. A beautiful book with all the
extra information on the WNU relation. Highly recommended!
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Publication
of Gods of
Opar delayed |
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15
May
2012
The
new Subterranean Press omnibus Gods of Opar: Tales of Lost
Khokarsa was scheduled for publication in April 2012.
Alas, the book is still with the printer, and SubPress is waiting to
get the books in from them. If everything goes according to
the new plans, we might expect the book in June.
See also the blog
entry
of Christopher Paul Carey for this.
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Bob Eggleton |
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The
Other Log of Phileas Fogg released |
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15
May
2012
It
seems that the new Titan Books (UK) edition of Phil Farmer's The
Other Log of Phileas Fogg came out a week ago.
I have not seen it yet, nor received an update of my order of the book
from Amazon. Hopefully I will have it soon!
Win Scott Eckert already has gotten his copy, see his weblog
–with some nice comments– about this book.
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Only Who
Can Make a Tree? |
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5
May
2012
A
story that reminded me immediately of the old Marx Brothers movies.
The things that the Marx Brothers were doing were meant well, but
everything
they tried to accomplish went absurdly wrong.
The same thing happens to the four (mad) scientists. They have a
government contract to fight pollution. But the scientists are not very
lucky inventing the right solution, but along the way to this they do
several other great inventions. Like flying goats... that eat
everything, a universal solvent that goes through everything... deep
into the earth and finds an oil well, and more. Everything seems
completely out of control!
"Only Who
Can Make a Tree?" is one of Philip José Farmer's
stories in the so called Polytropical
Paramyths series, strangely absurd tales.
Phil wrote this about the story: «The idea for "Only Who Can
Make
a Tree?" I owe to Ted Sturgeon. At a party at Harlan Ellison's, he told
me he'd long thought of writing a story which would reverse the
time-(w)ho(a)red Gernsbackian tale of the mad scientist and his
beautiful young daughter. What about, Ted said, a story about the
beautiful young scientist and her mad daughter? He would, he added,
probably never write it. So I asked him if I could use it, since the
idea appealed so strongly to me. Graciously, he consented.»
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Chesley
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The next
Titan Books reissue (2) |
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26
Apr
2012
I
received today an e-mail from Christopher Paul Carey as well as one
from Win Scott Eckert. Both to assure me that Titan Books has not (yet)
acquired the rights to publish Flight
to Opar and The
Song of Kwasin.
Titan Books might eventually publish them, depending on how well the
first books in the series are selling. But nothing is planned for the
foreseeable future.
Carey: "So right now, and for quite some time, the only way anyone is
going to be able to read The
Song of Kwasin is in the Gods of Opar omnibus
published by Subterranean Press."
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Bob Eggleton |
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The next
Titan Books reissue |
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26
Apr
2012
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Clyde Caldwell |
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A new
tale of Lost
Khokarsa: Exiles of Kho |
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26
Apr
2012
Christopher
Paul Carey has written a third story in the Opar / Khokarsa series, Exiles of Kho. The
book will be published later this year, late summer/early fall, by Meteor
House.
The publisher: "This limited edition novella will be signed by the
author, Christopher Paul Carey, coauthor with Philip José
Farmer of the third novel in the Khokarsa series. The print run will be
determined by the number of preorders we receive by June 30, 2012. A
very limited number of copies beyond the preorders will be printed."
If you haven't already, go to the site of Meteor
House now and preorder
your copy for US$ 15.00 plus shipping.
You know –if you have read the other Khokarsa stories by
Carey– that you're in for a
very exiting treat with this new novella!
Christopher Paul Carey published on his blog a ´Khokarsa
Series Checklist´ for the suggested reading order
of all Opar / Khokarsa tales by Farmer and him.
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Mike Hoffman |
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One Down,
One to Go |
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14
Apr
2012
Philip
José Farmer's look on a bleak future. What to do with people
on
welfare? Offer them sterilization in exchange for something.
"One Down, One to Go"
is a great but moody story.
From the foreword in Visions
of Wonder:
"...throughout the last five decades he has produced powerful short
stories that are among the finest in all SF. "One Down, One to Go" is a
recent example."
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Titan
Books reissues |
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9
Apr
2012
Win
Scott Eckert posted new entries on his blog about
the reissues of Farmer's books from Titan Books.
Post
#4 revealed the cover of A Feast Unknown, scheduled
to appear in October 2012.
Post
#5 announced the reissue of Farmer's The
Wind Whales of Ishmael. This one will appear in March 2013.
Win: "First published in 1971, Farmer's masterful SF sequel to Herman
Melville's Moby-Dick
has not seen an English edition in over 30 years."
See also Forthcoming
Books.
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Kilgore
Trout had an obscure life |
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9
Apr
2012
Philip
José Farmer wrote four fictional
biographies in the 1970s. The best known of these are Tarzan
Alive (1972) and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life
(1973). Both were published in book format.
But Farmer also wrote two shorter fictional biographies. The first of
his biographies is "The
Obscure Life and Hard Times of Kilgore Trout" (1971),
published in the fanzine Moebius
Trip #11.
Kilgore Trout is a character in many of the novels by Kurt Vonnegut,
Jr. But at the time of Phil Farmer writing the biography, which he
based mainly on Vonnegut's novels, so far only two with Kilgore Trout
had been published: God
Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965) and Slaughterhouse Five
(1969).
After the publication in the fanzine Moebius Trip #11 a
professional magazine was asked to publish it.
Farmer in his introduction: "I suggested to the editor of Esquire that he
might want to publish this 'life.' Regretfully, he rejected the idea.
He did not think that Kilgore
Trout was as well-know as Tarzan."
Till now I had this piece wrongly on one of the Non Fiction
pages. But it is definitely fiction, and so it now has its own Short Fiction page.
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William Rotsler |
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More news
about Titan Books editions |
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2
Apr
2012
Win
Scott Eckert has a new
post (post #3) on his blog about the forthcoming Titan
reissues of some of Philip
José Farmer's books.
Win announces the bonus materials, a new introduction by Joe Lansdale
and a foreword by Paul Spiteri, for the forthcoming Lord
Tyger.
Win: "Joe R. Lansdale is eminently suited to contribute a new
introduction to this Burroughsian-flavored novel, as he is one of the
few (along with Philip José Farmer himself!) to write an
authorized Tarzan novel. And Paul Spiteri, a Farmerian expert and the
editor of the critically acclaimed Farmer collection Pearls
from Peoria (Subterranean Press) has written a fine foreword."
Also on Win's blog the cover of the new Titan Books edition of Lord
of the Trees, on the cover titled as The Lord of the Trees.
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A
comedy of errors, O'Brien and Obrenov |
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28
Mar
2012
Philip
José Farmer's first story in print was "O'Brien and Obrenov",
published March 1946 in the magazine Adventure.
The story had first been submitted to the Saturday Evening Post.
The editor would buy it if the drunk scene was cut. Despite being
tempted, because the Post
did pay well, Phil refused. He then sent the story to Argosy, but it was
too long for this magazine. Argosy's
editor did send it to the editor of Adventure.
Although a bit dated, "O'Brien and Obrenov" is still a funny story to
read. After defeating the German soldiers American and Russian forces
occupied the small town Mautz and split it in half. But what to do with
an important German officer both forces have captured together? Cut him
in half too?
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Griffith Foxley |
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Lost
Khokarsa website |
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25
Mar
2012
Christopher
Paul Carey and Michael Croteau have been working on a website with lots
of background and other material about the Khokarsa series.
Christopher on Facebook: "Here it is, in tribute to the upcoming
release of GODS OF OPAR: the official hub of all things Khokarsa. This
website, dedicated to Philip José Farmer's epic series of
prehistoric adventure, was created with the blessing of the Philip J.
Farmer Trust. Some of the highlights: a primer of terms from the
series, the complete Chronology of Khokarsa by P. J. Farmer, the
first-time unveiling anywhere of the Khokarsan glyphs and syllabary
from Farmer's notes, and maps of Khokarsa hand-drawn by Farmer himself.
Please feel free to share this post and spread the news about this site
far and wide. Enjoy!"
Check the new and very interesting website "Explore the
World of Lost Khokarsa".
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Bob Eggleton |
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More
titles from Titan Books |
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21
Mar
2012
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A perfect
vampire story |
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19
Mar
2012
Phil
was asked by Byron Preiss to write a vampire story for the collection The Ultimate Dracula
(Dell, 1991). He wrote the short story "Nobody's
Perfect", a Gothic horror tale, with a highly erotic and
religious theme.
In the foreword to the story in the collection Pearls
from Peoria Farmer said a few words about it: "I'd always
considered vampire stories, werewolf tales, and in fact, the whole
Gothic field, as more-or-less disguised sex stories. Pornography of the
weird. Why not bring the hidden stuff into the open."
Another story page redone.
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Gods of
Opar, first review |
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11
Mar
2012
Publishers
Weekly has a review, the first we know of, of Gods of Opar: Tales of Lost
Khokarsa. This omnibus will be published at the end of
next month by Subterranean Press.
PW:
"The
late Farmer (1918–2009; Riverworld) wrote two novels paying
tribute to and expanding on the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the
outline of a third. This outline informs Carey’s development
of a
story that focuses on exiled Kwasin, the “strongest man in
the
world,” and his battle against King Minruth of Khokarsa.
Kwasin
marries and loses a queen, meets the persistent bard Bhako, and
adventures with the king’s rebellious daughter, Awineth. True
to
its roots, the latest entry is fast-paced, often violent
(Kwasin’s enormous battle-ax is a major character), and
filled
with pulp tropes. Fans of Farmer’s original series will
appreciate this repackaging and enjoy the finale, both in tone and
because of the closure it provides. Likewise, fans of Burroughs, H.
Rider Haggard, and other pulp authors will find the entire collection
an accessible and enjoyable throwback."
A nice review! With congratulations to Christopher Paul Carey,
co-author of the third novel. I hadn't expected anything less after reading
Carey's "Kwasin and the Bear
God".
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Tarzan
Lives interview |
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4
Mar
2012
In
April 1972 Esquire,
The Magazine for Men, published the interview Philip José
Farmer had with Tarzan, the Eight Duke of Greystoke. The title of the
interview in Esquire
was "Tarzan Lives".
Farmer stated that he had met Tarzan in a hotel in Libreville, Gabon
(Africa), but later corrected it –in an Author's
Note– that it had been
in Chicago.
For a long time I had the interview, as an article, on the Non Fiction
pages of this bibliography. Actually it is a fictional interview, so
the story belongs in the Short Fiction section.
I have corrected this with a new Short Fiction page of "Tarzan Lives". Reason to
correct it now was the publication of the interview in the French
fanzine La Tribune des
amis d'Edgar Rice Burroughs (website). It was
published in two parts in the issues 78, June 2011, and 79, of November
2011.
The Finnish publication in 1991 of the interview added part of a letter
by Phil to the editor of Portti.
In this letter Farmer writes: "...Another note, perhaps interesting.
I've been working on my genealogy, my family lineage, for about eleven
years. I've traced one of my lines back to the historical barons of
Greystoke...".
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In June 2012 Subterranean Press publishes an omnibus with the three
Opar / Khokarsa novels, Gods
of Opar: Tales of Lost Khokarsa.
Titan Books will publish a new edition of Time's Last Gift in
June 2012.
The novel Lord Tyger
will also have a new edition from Titan Books, July 2012.
Meteor House will publish the third volume of The Worlds of Philip
José Farmer, Summer 2012.
Atlantis (Germany) will publish a translation of The Peerless Peer as
Sherlock
Holmes und die Legende von Greystoke, Summer 2012.
A new Lost Khokarsa novella, Exiles
of Kho, written by Christopher Paul Carey. To be published
by Meteor House, Fall 2012.
A reissue of A Feast
Unknown from Titan Books, October 2012.
Lord
of the Trees will be reissued by Titan Books, November
2012.
A reissue of Hadon of
Ancient Opar from Titan Books, January 2013.
Titan Books will reissue The
Wind Whales of Ishmael in March 2013.
Titan Books will also reissue Flesh,
The
Mad Goblin and Venus
on the Half-Shell.
And a brand new collection with Wold Newton Universe stories.
Probably in 2013-2014.
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