Philip José Farmer Short Story Collections
Jack Crane lay all morning in the vacant lot. Now and then he moved a little to quiet the protest of cramped muscles and stagnant blood, but most of the time he was as motionless as the heap of rags he resembled. Not once did he hear or see a Bohas agent, or, for that matter, anyone. The predawn darkness had hidden his panting flight from the transie jungle, his dodging across backyards while whistles shrilled and voices shouted, and his crawling on hands and knees down an alley into the high grass and bushes which fringed a hidden garden. For a while his heart had knocked so loudly that he had been sure he would not be able to hear his pursuers if they did get close. It seemed inevitable that they would track him down. A buddy had told him that a new camp had just been built at a place only three hours drive away from the town. This meant that Bohas would be thick as hornets in the neighborhood...
A trio of works come together in an omnibus edition that includes Flesh, Strange Relations, and The Lovers, in which Hal Yarrow visits the planet Ozagen, where he falls in love with a humanoid alien female whose alcoholism he tries to cure without realizing that alcohol prevents pregnancy. Original.
This book contains two stories which despite the subtitle weren't exactly 'suppressed'. The first story, "Jesus on Mars", is an abridged version of the novel that was supposed to be printed in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine . Due to editing problems and time constraints, the book came out before the story could be run. The second story, "Riverworld War", is a chapter that was cut from the Riverworld novel The Magic Labyrinth .
Tor, mass market paperback, one of three printings. Collection of Farmer's "Father Carmody" stories, including: The Night of Light (1957); A Few Miles (1960); Prometheus (1963); Father (1955); Attitudes (1953). Introduction by Roger Zelazny.
Chib is encouraged to pursue art by his grandfather, in a world where machines do all the work, and humans live on the dole and become obsessed with direct stimulation of the brain's pleasure centers
Whether it is in the inventiveness of his science fiction or the charades of his literary revisionism, Philip José Farmer's work has always been characterized by humor, psychological playfulness and sexuality. Winner of the highest accolades in science fiction, three-time Hugo Award winner Farmer has taken his place alongside Tolkien, Asimov and LeGuin, with his unconventional and ambitious Riverworld series. In this edition, he reveals the story of his rise in the science fiction field and presents, with new introductions, a sextet of his best stories and a newly revised novel. The context for these selections is as unpredictable as their author: a World's Fair of the 21st century, dedicated to the work of Philip José Farmer and described by the author himself!
Contains a collection of early science-fiction short stories by popular author Philip Jose Farmer
Stated First Edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Edited with an Introduction by Martin H. Greenberg. Foreword by Isaac Asimov. Part of Crown's Classics of Modern Science Fiction series.
A collection of short science fiction takes readers on a voyage through time with St. Francis, into a brutal future city where sterilization is the only cure to poverty, and to a struggle between alien beings and the IRS. Original.
From the stories that led to the creation of his best-selling Riverworld and Dayworld novels, to more unusual selections like "Uproar in Acheron" (a western-cum-fantasy), "The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod" (a story which works as both literary pastiche and homage), or break-all-the-rules fiction like "The Henry Miller Dawn Patrol" (a Farmer favorite which was first published in Playboy magazine), it's all here. With a total of 20 different stories and one Farmer-penned introduction that add up to nearly two hundred thousand words, The Best of Philip José Farmer is, hands down, the finest collection of Farmer stories ever assembled. Contents: The Lovers (1952) Sail On! Sail On! (1952) Mother (1953) The God Business (1954) The Alley Man (1959) My Sister's Brother (1960) Uproar in Acheron (1961) The King of Beasts (1964) The Shadow of Space (1967) Riders of the Purple Wage or the Great Gavage (1967) Don't Wash the Carats: A Polytropical Paramyth (1968) The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod (1968) The Oögenesis of Bird City (1970) The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World (1971) Sketches among the Ruins of My Mind (1973) After King Kong Fell (1973) The Henry Miller Dawn Patrol (1977) Riverworld (1966) The Making of Revelation, Part I (1980) One Down, One to Go (1990)
Buy with confidence - satisfaction guaranteed! Ex-Library - Library stickers-markings on spine, front cover, and first page. Pages bright and appear clean. Binding tight. Minimal shelf edge wear, indentations, corner bumping to cover. Gently used copy in good to very good condition.
Limited to 250 signed numbered copies, in slipcase. Up from the Bottomless Pit is the ultimate collection for Philip Jose Farmer fans, including 140,000 words (roughly 400 pages) of very obscure, never-before-collected short stories, a novel beginning, non-fiction, and a complete novel as well. All of these pieces have only seen publication in Farmerphile, a fanzine with a regular circulation well under two hundred copies per issue. Subterranean Press is proud to give these newly discovered gems a more permanent home, in an edition specifically geared toward Phil's most ardent fans. In addition to the rarities, there will be copious introductions and numerous black and white illustrations. Philip Jos?? Farmer: maker of universes and chronicler of fantastic adventures, legendary Hugo Award winner and Nebula Grand Master... Today few realize that Farmer was writing literary fiction long before he set the science fiction world afire with his groundbreaking "The Lovers." Up from the Bottomless Pit and Other Stories collects these little known treasures, along with other fantastical tales--all making their first appearance here in book form. Sure to excite readers of science fiction everywhere is the inclusion of Farmer's "lost" novel of the ultimate ecological nightmare. Set in an alternate past circa the 1970s, Up from the Bottomless Pit tells of a world so ravenous in its desire for oil that it has thrown caution to the wind. Using an experimental laser drill, humankind burns a hole through the ocean floor only to unleash a deadly torrent that threatens to wipe out all life on the planet. With its first-time collection of a lost novel, ultra-rare works, tales of science fiction and fantasy, Up from the Bottomless Pit and Other Stories presents a compelling new look at one of speculative fiction's most beloved literary giants.
Contains a collection of science fiction short stories, including "The Volcano," "Osiris on Crutches," and "The Adventure of the Peerless Peer."
ABOUT THIS BOOK... A collection of Wold Newton-inspired short stories by Farmerphiles, experts, and the Grand Master of SF himself.A real meteorite fell near Wold Newton, Yorkshire, England, on December 13, 1795, and was found to be radioactive, causing genetic mutations in the occupants of a passing coach. Many of their descendants were thus endowed with extremely high intelligence and strength, as well as an exceptional capacity and drive to perform good, or, as the case may be, evil deeds.
Three stories of a world shared by resurrected humans from all times and places—plus ten more tales by the Hugo Award–winning author of the World of Tiers series. On author Philip José Farmer’s Riverworld, humans from every era and culture have been simultaneously resurrected. Ancient Hebrews, medieval warriors, Spanish Inquisitors, and modern Americans intermingle in this strange new environment, but many still cling to old prejudices. Tom Mix, a silent-film star originally from early-twentieth-century Earth, is journeying among the vast population along the millions of miles of the River, in search of familiar faces from his own time. He’s been traveling the River for five years and believes people are starting to change. But when he’s entangled in a brutal clash between states, he discovers that some are slow to let go of the ideas that ruled them on Earth. This volume includes the novelette “Riverworld,” along with two additional Riverworld tales and ten other short stories, all strange, clever, and profound. Farmer’s explorations of the wonderful and bizarre—from a portrayal of Jesus and Satan as cowpokes to a reimagining of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan in the style of William Burroughs—plunge the reader into “one of the most imaginative worlds in science fiction” ( Booklist ). This ebook includes “Riverworld,” “J. C. on the Dude Ranch,” “The Volcano,” “The Henry Miller Dawn Patrol,” “The Problem of Sore Bridge—Among Others,” “Brass and Gold (or Horse and Zeppelin in Beverly Hills),” “The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod,” “The Voice of the Sonar in My Vermiform Appendix,” “Monolog,” “The Leaser of Two Evils,” “The Phantom of the Sewers,” “Up the Bright River,” “Crossing the Dark River,” and Philip Jos Farmer’s article on the making of Riverworld, “The Source of the River.”
Philip José Farmer had a life-long love affair with the pulps he read in his youth. They influenced nearly everything he wrote, but in the 1970s he paid special tribute to them with several stories. Greatheart Silver and Other Pulp Heroes collects these stories for the first time in hardcover! This collection also features an introduction by college professor and pulp historian, Garyn G. Roberts, Ph.D., and artwork by Keith Howell!
Collected here for the first time in print, this book presents the major writings on the Lord of the Jungle by famed Tarzan scholar, and Science Fiction Grand Master, Philip José Farmer. Included are many articles, letters, and prose pieces written over many decades of scholarship by the man who not only wrote Tarzan's biography but was privileged to have edited some of the memoirs written by Lord Greystoke himself. Grouped in a way that allows the reader to explore different aspects of Farmer's lifelong fascination and investigations, the collection culminates in an actual interview with Tarzan himself. This is the definitive collection, showcasing Farmer's love, admiration, and knowledge of Lord Greystoke, the man we all know as Tarzan of the Apes. Included are a previously unpublished article, a recently uncovered short additional piece of Tarzan's autobiography, and, perhaps of most interest, Farmer's draft notes detailing his preparation for the historic interview, as well as some key annotations he made in the immediate aftermath of the meeting. With the evidence presented here, who could doubt that Tarzan is real and that Farmer was able to track him down.