Science fiction short story.
Written as by Cordwainer Bird
(psudonym/fictional author).
Rewritten as "The Last Rise of Nick Adams".
In the first publication, in "The Impotency of Bad Karma", Farmer
parodies for instance Barry Malzberg, who didn't approve of it. For
that reason he rewrote the story somewhat and retitled the story as
"The Last Rise of Nick Adams". But with the rewrite Farmer missed a
piece of the original text, see
the info.
An earlier version of this story, found in Phil's archives, was
published as "Up, Out and Over, Roger" in 2012. The name of the
protagonist, and some of the text differ slightly from the other two
versions, but it parodies the same authors as in the first published
version. So Barry Malzberg (as Hopsmount) and also Cordwainer Bird (as
himself) are included, next to Asimov, Heinlein and Van Vogt.
DESCRIPTION:
Nick Adams,
science-fiction author, and his wife Ashlar in a sort of parody of the
science fiction world and of some of its well known people.
From Farmer's introduction: "...The genesis of the original idea for
the story, the basic concept, came one day while I was considering the
inflating or deflating effects of good or bad reviews of my work, of
good or bad royalty reports, and so on. This story exaggerates the
effects, though not very much..."
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FIRST PUBLICATION
in Popular Culture
Brad Lang
Lansing, MI: Popular Culture Publishers
First Preview Edition
magazine (27,5×21cm)
June 1977
44
$ 1.50
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Written as by Cordwainer Bird.
With an illustration by Marty Seigrist. Popular
Culture had an extremely limited circulation, and it
lasted
for only one issue.
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"The Last Rise of Nick Adams"
in Chrysalis
- Volume 2
Roy Torgeson
New York, NY: Zebra Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-89083-381-8
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
08/1978
284
$ 1.95
not credited [= Colin Hay]
Second, rewritten version. With an introduction
by Theodore Sturgeon.
Colin
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"The Last Rise of Nick Adams"
in The
Book of Philip
José Farmer
New York, NY: Berkley Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-425-05298-2
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
02/1982 (1st)
04/1982 (2nd)
248
$ 2.50
James Warhola
Second, rewritten version. With an introduction by
Farmer.
James
Warhola
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"The Last Rise of Nick Adams"
in Venus
on the Half-Shell and Others
Christopher Paul Carey
Burton, MI: Subterranean Press
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ISBN 978-1-59606-142-2
hardcover (23,5×16cm)
01/2008 [Trade edition.]
03/2008 [Numbered, signed, slipcased edition.]
325
$ 38.00 | $ 125.00
Bob Eggleton
Second, rewritten version. With an introduction
by the editor.
Bob
Eggleton
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"The Last Rise of Nick Adams"
in Venus
on the Half-Shell and Others
Christopher Paul Carey
Burton, MI: Subterranean Press
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ISBN 978-1-59606-142-2
hardcover (23,5×16cm)
10/2008 [Lettered, signed, traycased edition.]
340
$ 300.00
Bob Eggleton
Second, rewritten version. With an introduction
by the editor.
Bob
Eggleton
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"The Impotency of Bad Karma"
in Venus
on the Half-Shell and Others
Christopher Paul Carey
Burton, MI: Subterranean Press
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ISBN 978-1-59606-142-2
hardcover (23,5×16cm)
10/2008 [Lettered, signed, traycased edition.]
340
$ 300.00
Bob Eggleton
The very rare original, first published (and complete!)
version of the story. In the
lettered edition
only. With an introduction
by the editor.
Bob
Eggleton
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"Up, Out and Over, Roger"
in The
Worlds of Philip José Farmer (3): Portraits of a Trickster
Michael Croteau
(Lilburn, GA): Meteor House
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ISBN 978-0-983-74611-9
trade paperback (23×15,5cm)
08/2012
282
$ 25.00
Keith Howell
With an introduction about the three versions of the story. This one is
an early, previously unpublished, version of it.
Keith
Howell
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"The Last Rise of Nick Adams"
in The
Book of Philip José Farmer
London: Granada Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-586-05656-4
paperback (18×11cm)
07/1983
318
£ 1.95
Richard Clifton-Dey
Rewritten version. With an introduction
by Farmer.
Richard
Clifton-Dey
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German: "Nick Adams' letzter
Aufstieg"
in Nick Adams letzter
Aufstieg
Roy Torgeson
München: Moewig
Playboy Science Fiction, Band 6718
ISBN 3-8118-6718-0
paperback (18×12,5cm)
-/1981
303
DM 7,80
Leni Sobez
Norma
Rewritten version.
Norma
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Russian: "Последний экстаз
Ника Адамса"
in Миры
Филипа Фармера - T. 15
Riga & Moscow: Polaris
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ISBN 5-88132-275-4
hardcover [no dustjacket] (20,5×13,5cm)
03/1997
400
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O. Vasant
V. Kovalev
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