Background
Farmer, Philip José was born on January 26, 1918 in North Terre Haute, Indiana, United States. Son of George and Lucile Theodora (Jackson) Farmer.
(Kickaha, a freedom-seeking wanderer from the planet Earth...)
Kickaha, a freedom-seeking wanderer from the planet Earth, meets his archenemy, the most powerful of the decadent interstellar lords, Lord Red Orc, in a final battle that will determine the fate of the universes. Reprint. AB.
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(In this classic of alternate history by grand master Phil...)
In this classic of alternate history by grand master Philip Jose Farmer, Native American bomber pilot Roger Two Hawks bails out over enemy territory in WWII, only to find himself on another Earth-one in which the American continents never rose from the waters, and the ancestors of the American Indians remained in Asia and Europe-an Earth embroiled in a world war of its own, with Two Hawks caught in the middle.
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( This one is for fans of Quentin Tarantino and of the ev...)
This one is for fans of Quentin Tarantino and of the ever-present gratuitous violence of Robert Altman. It is a direct descendant of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer and the mystery action pulps epitomized by Black Mask. Philip José Farmer, now one of the great living SF writers, who has published many varieties of pulp fiction, who has written novels of Tarzan, Doc Savage, and Oz, now turns his hand to the detective novel, with colorful, violent results. A self-obsessed private detective married to a sincere wiccan is hired to witness an illegal transfer of money in a rainy cemetery that goes bloody wrong. Chasing the bad guys, he ends up the prisoner of a grusome threesome in their Dogpatchy cabin in the woods. His escape involves nudity, blood, death, and a terrible snapping turtle. That's how the mystery begins, leading him through all the levels of Peoria society, geography, and history. Absurdly funny things happen continually in the peripheral vision of the story. No violence is left out. Greed, venality and hatred are unleashed. Unpleasant family history is brought to light. All the sex is offstage. The body count mounts steadily, with occasional mutilations. Nothing Burns in Hell is pulp fiction at its most gorgeously excessive.
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("A human head crashes through a window. A naked woman zoo...)
"A human head crashes through a window. A naked woman zooms by on a motorcycle. A sleazy lawmaker gets an arrow in the back. "That's life in central Illinois--or at least the twisted version of central Illinois concocted by 13 writers collaborating on a tongue-in-cheek mystery." So writes Christopher Wills of the Associated Press in his recent article covering the new serial book, NAKED CAME THE FARMER. Building on the success of NAKED CAME THE STRANGER--a collaborative effort of 20 Newsday staffers back in 1969--and on the success of NAKED CAME THE MANATEE--a suspense thriller cooked up by 13 Miami-based writers in 1995--now comes NAKED CAME THE FARMER, a satirical, round-robin murder mystery drawing on the talents of some of Illinois' top writers.
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(Ramstan, captain of the al-Buraq, a rare model of spacesh...)
Ramstan, captain of the al-Buraq, a rare model of spaceship capable of instantaneous travel between two points, attempts to stop an unidentified "creature" that is annihilating intelligent life on planets throughout the universe. - Goodreads
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( "Charts a territory somewhere between Gulliver's Travel...)
"Charts a territory somewhere between Gulliver's Travels and The Lord of the Rings." --Time To Your Scattered Bodies Go and The Fabulous Riverboat Combined for the first time in one volume! Imagine that every human who ever lived, from the earliest Neanderthals to the present, is resurrected after death on the banks of an astonishing and seemingly endless river on an unknown world. They are miraculously provided with food, but with not a clue to the possible meaning of this strange afterlife. And so billions of people from history, and before, must start living again. Some set sail on the great river questing for the meaning of their resurrection, and to find and confront their mysterious benefactors. On this long journey, we meet Sir Richard Francis Burton, Mark Twain, Odysseus, Cyrano de Bergerac, and many others, most of whom embark upon searches of their own in this huge afterlife.
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(Phantasia Press: 1981. Newly revised text, with an introd...)
Phantasia Press: 1981. Newly revised text, with an introduction by the author. Second book ih the "World of Tiers" series, first published in 1966. This edition was published in two formats: 250 signed, numbered, slipcased copies, and 750 copies of the "trade edition."
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(Two complete novels and five novelettes that broke new gr...)
Two complete novels and five novelettes that broke new ground in science fiction and established Philip Jose Farmer as a master of the genre: The Lovers: One of the most controversial and groundbreaking novels in science fiction. Sent by the religious tyranny of a future Earth to the planet Ozagen, Hal Yarrow met Jeanette, an apparently human fugitive, hiding in ancient ruins built by a long-vanished race. Unconsecrated contact with any female was forbidden to Yarrow—and love for an alien female was an unspeakable abomination. But Yarrow’s lifelong conditioning was no match for his strange attraction to Jeanette. Flesh: The starship captain had been on a voyage lasting 800 years, and returned to find an Earth ruled by revived ancient pagan rituals. He was crowned the “Sunhero,” which was a very dubious honor . . . and unless he could escape, he would be the guest of honor at a fertility rite which would conclude with his very unpleasant death. Strange Relations: Five novelettes of unbounded imagination telling of strange—and often deadly—encounters between human and alien.
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("Charts a territory somewhere between "Gulliver's Travels...)
"Charts a territory somewhere between "Gulliver's Travels" and "The Lord of the Rings."""--Time ""To Your Scattered Bodies Go" and "The Fabulous Riverboat"Combined for the first time in one volume! Imagine that every human who ever lived, from the earliest Neanderthals to the present, is resurrected after death on the banks of an astonishing and seemingly endless river on an unknown world. They ar...
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(Through the brilliant, exhaustive research of Philip Jose...)
Through the brilliant, exhaustive research of Philip Jose Farmer, the true, astonishing saga of Lord Greystoke--better known as Tarzan of the Apes--can at last be told. It's all here, the facts meticulously separated from the fiction.
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(Sent into the world of Tiers by a well-meaning doctor in ...)
Sent into the world of Tiers by a well-meaning doctor in the mental hospital where he is incarcerated, teenage troublemaker Jim Grimson finds himself in a world of fantasy and danger. Reprint.
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(British adventurer Richard Francis Burton dies on Earth a...)
British adventurer Richard Francis Burton dies on Earth and is revived in mid-air in a vast dark room filled with human bodies, some only half formed. There, he is confronted by men in a flying vehicle who blast him with a weapon.
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(This collection of stories begins with the "Riverworld" n...)
This collection of stories begins with the "Riverworld" novelette, 100 pages of acopalyptic Truth from the mouths of resurrectees who were, on Earth, personally acquainted with the Saviour. The Truth does not convince people from later centuries - except for Tom Mix, who will burn at the stake.
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(The Green Odyssey is a relatively straightforward adventu...)
The Green Odyssey is a relatively straightforward adventure story, involving an astronaut named Alan Green stranded on a primitive planet, where he is claimed as a gigolo by a duchess and is married to a slave woman. Upon hearing of two other stranded astronauts, he escapes from the duchess, and sets sail to find them. However, because of the peculiar geography of the planet, there is a vast expansive plain, instead of an ocean to cross. Green uses a ship equipped with large rolling pin-like wheels along the bottom to traverse the plains of this world. After his escape from the duchess he is followed by his slave woman wife and her children (one is his). There follow several fairly standard adventure plots with cannibals, pirates, floating islands (that turn out to be giant lawnmowers), and the deus ex machina, a female black cat named Lady Luck.
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("The Lovers" is one of the most controversial and groundb...)
"The Lovers" is one of the most controversial and groundbreaking novels in science fiction. Sent by the religious tyranny of a future Earth to the planet Ozagen, Hal Yarrow met Jeanette, an apparently human fugitive, hiding in ancient ruins built by a long-vanished race. Un-consecrated contact with any female was forbidden to Yarrow - and love for an alien female was an unspeakable abomination. But Yarrow's lifelong conditioning was no match for his strange attraction to Janette. "Flesh": The starship captain had made the mistake of landing on a forgotten planet colonised centuries ago by believers in ancient pagan rituals. Unless he could escape, he would be made part of a fertility rite which would conclude with a very unpleasant death. "Strange Relations": five novelettes of unbounded imagination telling of strange - and often deadly - encounters between human and alien.
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(Venus on the Half-Shell and Others collects for the first...)
Venus on the Half-Shell and Others collects for the first time the best of the best from Philip José Farmer's scintillating "fictional-author period." In the mid-1970s a fever-pitched furor was created when an actual novel purported to be by Kilgore Trout -- the sadsack science fiction writer who appears as a character in the works of Kurt Vonnegut -- materialized on the bookracks, complete with a mysterious back cover photo of the author looking like a bearded vagabond sage. Debate raged as to who had truly written Venus on the Half-Shell. Was it Vonnegut himself, or perhaps Theodore Sturgeon, rumored to have been the inspiration for Trout? Or did Kilgore Trout really exist? Just as one respected newspaper published an article "proving" that Vonnegut had written the book, the Hugo Award-winning science fiction author Philip Jose Farmer announced he was the true author. The controversial Kilgore Trout episode was neither the first nor the last time Farmer would impishly slip out of his own skin and assume the persona of another author. In Venus on the Half-Shell and Others, Philip Jose Farmer transforms himself into fictional personalities as compelling as they are diverse: Cordwainer Bird, Paul Chapin, Rod Keen, Harry "Bunny" Manders, Leo Queequeg Tincrowdor, John H. Watson, M.D. and even the real-life author William S. Burroughs (writing his own version of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Jungle Lord!). Also included is the original version of Farmer's classic Sherlock Holmes/Lord Greystoke pastiche The Adventure of the Peerless Peer, back in print for the first time in over thirty years. A unique collection, Venus on the Half-Shell and Others showcases the grand imagination of one of science fiction's most resourceful and creative minds.
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(CHECK OUT THIS BOOK BUNDLE! Four Ballantine paperbacks by...)
CHECK OUT THIS BOOK BUNDLE! Four Ballantine paperbacks by PHILIP JOSE FARMER, may be First Editions: Dare (1965), The Green Odyssey (1957), Inside Outside (1964) and Strange Relations (1960). Four books, One shipping charge! NOTE: These bundles contain books of varying condition.
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("This edition was specially created in 1990 for the Book-...)
"This edition was specially created in 1990 for the Book-of-the-Month Club..." stated on the copyright page. Farmer's first novel, published in 1957. This one is a pulp adventure story about Alan Green, an astronaut from Earth who is struggling to survive on a primitive, alien world. A fun, exciting tale.
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( In one volume, here are the last three novels in the cl...)
In one volume, here are the last three novels in the classic SF adventure series, The World of Tiers: Behind the Walls of Terra, The Lavalite World, and More Than Fire. These are the great originals of universe-hopping adventure that later writers, including Roger Zelazny in his Amber Series, used as models. Zelazny himself says, "I admire his sense of humor and facility for selecting the perfect final sentence for everything he writes. He can be stark, dark, smoky, bright, and any color of the emotional spectrum...put quite simply, he arouses awe," The tierworld books are full of non-stop action and typify Farmer's boundless imagination. Who else would have thought of stacking up pocket universes like a ziggurat or the layers of a cake? Join Earthlings Robert Wolff and Paul Janus Finnigan (alias Kickaha) on an unforgettable adventure to big for any single world.
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(Simon Wagstaff narrowly escapes the Deluge that destroys ...)
Simon Wagstaff narrowly escapes the Deluge that destroys Earth when he happens upon an abandoned spaceship. A man without a planet, he gains immortality from an elixir drunk during an interlude with a cat-like alien queen. Now Simon must chart a 3,000-year course to the most distant corners of the multiverse, to seek out the answers to the questions no one can seem to answer.
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(River of Eternity, written in 1952, but never before publ...)
River of Eternity, written in 1952, but never before published, is the revised version of the original Riverworld novel which formed the basis for the five novels in Farmer's series.
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(William Duncan, the rebel daybreaker, and his lover, Pant...)
William Duncan, the rebel daybreaker, and his lover, Panthea Snick, set out to reveal the dark secrets of Dayworld and the formula for long life and to end the repressive hegemony.
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( The Unreasoning Mask is the story of Ramstan, captain o...)
The Unreasoning Mask is the story of Ramstan, captain of al-Buraq, a rare model starship. It is capable of alaraf drive: instantaneous travel between two points of space. Three of these special ships were built to explore and make contact with the many sentient races inhabiting the universe. Suddenly, one of the ships mysteriously disappears. And then it is discovered that an unidentifiable creature is marauding through the universe, totally annihilating intelligent life on planet after planet. Ramstan, a thoughtful and moral man, becomes a fascinated yet reluctant pawn in the hands of the strange forces which arise to fight the deadly destroyer. Ultimately, he is the one man who, in a fearful race against time, can stop the destruction. But what price must he pay for becoming the savior of intelligent-kind? The Unreasoning Mask is Farmer at his best: fast-paced, complex, slightly mystical, high-action adventure.
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(A collection of short science fiction takes readers on a ...)
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.
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(The Tiers series chronicles the adventures of both Robert...)
The Tiers series chronicles the adventures of both Robert Wolff, a man from our world transported through space-time to a cosmos with dimensions and laws different from our own, and Kickaha the Trickster (a.k.a. Paul J. Finnegan, also from our contemporary world). Separately and together, the two heroes contend against the Lords who rule the separate universes, of which the marvelous many-leveled World of Tiers is the center. Mythological and legendary creatures and characters abound: centaurs and harpies, mermaids and Indians, aliens and beautiful women.
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(Philip Jose Farmer was given the WORLD FANTASY AWARD FOR ...)
Philip Jose Farmer was given the WORLD FANTASY AWARD FOR LIFE ACHIEVEMENT and named an SFWA GRAND MASTER in the same year - a fitting recognition of his refusal to be pigeonholed. Whether pushing the boundaries of sexual and religious themes or reimagining pulp heroes for the modern age, Farmer's restless imagination knew no bounds. This omnibus contains THE MAKER OF UNIVERSES, the first of the World of Tiers series; the HUGO AWARD-winning TO YOUR SCATTERED BODIES GO, which opens the acclaimed Riverworld sequence; and the stand-alone space opera, THE UNREASONING MASK.
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(The World of Tiers is a series of science fiction novels ...)
The World of Tiers is a series of science fiction novels by American writer Philip José Farmer. They are set within a series of artificially-constructed universes, created and ruled by decadent beings who are genetically identical to humans, but who regard themselves as superior, the inheritors of an advanced technology they no longer understand. This technology enables the "Lords" (or Thoans, in their own language) to create novel lifeforms, and also to prevent aging or disease, making them effectively immortal. Their technology also allows them to create small artificial universes, and the planets and stars within them, and modify the physical laws (e.g. changing the behavior of gravity) to create unusual or interesting phenomena within these universes. Instantaneous travel within and between these universes is achieved by the use of gates which seem to function as teleportation devices, or as a means of creating wormholes between different regions of spacetime. The overall series title comes from the main 'pocket universe' featured in the books. This consists of a single planet with a green sky, shaped in the form of a huge stepped pyramid on five stages, with each stage being a disk or squat cylinder. A small sun and a single moon orbit around this planet. There are no other stars or astronomical bodies. This world was created by a Lord named Jadawin. The overall storyline of the series follows the adventures of two people from Earth who independently discover gates into the World of Tiers. The earlier books focus on the character of Robert Wolff as he explores this world and tries to discover its secrets. From the third book onwards the action shifts to Paul Janus Finnegan (known as Kickaha, along with many other aliases), who is drawn into a battle between an ancient enemy of the Thoans, and ultimately into the feuds between rival Thoans as they try to take over each other's universes.
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(Phantasia Press, 1980, hardcover with dustjacket. Limited...)
Phantasia Press, 1980, hardcover with dustjacket. Limited to 1000 copies, 250 of which were signed, numbered and slip-cased. First book in the "World of Tiers" series of novels, first published in 1965.
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(Ballantine Books, 1960. Mass market paperback, 1st editio...)
Ballantine Books, 1960. Mass market paperback, 1st edition, cover code 391K. Collection of thematically linked stories: Mother (1953); Daughter (1954); Father (1955); Son (1954); My Sister's Brother (1960).
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( Through the tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs, generations ...)
Through the tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs, generations of readers have thrilled to the adventures of Lord Greystoke (aka John Clayton, but better known as Tarzan of the Apes). In this biography Philip José Farmer pieces together the life of this fantastic man, correcting Burroughs’s errors and deliberate deceptions and tracing Tarzan's family tree back to other extraordinary figures, including Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes, the Scarlet Pimpernel, Doc Savage, Nero Wolfe, and Bulldog Drummond. Tarzan Alive offers the first chronological account of Tarzan's life, narrated in careful detail garnered from Burroughs’s stories and other sources. From the ill-fated voyage that led to Greystoke's birth on the isolated African coast to his final adventures as a group captain in the RAF during World War II, Farmer constructs a comprehensive and authoritative account. Farmer’s assertion that Tarzan was a real person has led him to craft a biography as well researched and compelling as that of any character from conventional history. This definitive Bison Books edition also includes Farmer’s “Exclusive Interview with Lord Greystoke” as well as “Extracts from the Memoirs of ‘Lord Greystoke’” first anthologized in Mother Was a Lovely Beast.
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(This is the second of two volumes issued together by The ...)
This is the second of two volumes issued together by The Science Fiction Book Club in 1981, and again in 1993. Contains the third, fourth and fifth "World of Tiers" series novels: A Private Cosmos (1968); Behind the Walls of Terra (1970); The Lavalite World (1977). Introduction by Roger Zelazny.
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Farmer, Philip José was born on January 26, 1918 in North Terre Haute, Indiana, United States. Son of George and Lucile Theodora (Jackson) Farmer.
Bachelor, Bradley University, 1950.
Laborer, steel mill, Peoria, 1941-1952. Technical writer, various companies, 1956-1969.
(In this classic of alternate history by grand master Phil...)
(Two complete novels and five novelettes that broke new gr...)
(Ramstan, captain of the al-Buraq, a rare model of spacesh...)
(The Green Odyssey is a relatively straightforward adventu...)
(Kickaha, a freedom-seeking wanderer from the planet Earth...)
(The Tiers series chronicles the adventures of both Robert...)
(CHECK OUT THIS BOOK BUNDLE! Four Ballantine paperbacks by...)
(This collection of stories begins with the "Riverworld" n...)
(Sent into the world of Tiers by a well-meaning doctor in ...)
(River of Eternity, written in 1952, but never before publ...)
(William Duncan, the rebel daybreaker, and his lover, Pant...)
(Philip Jose Farmer was given the WORLD FANTASY AWARD FOR ...)
( Through the tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs, generations ...)
(Through the brilliant, exhaustive research of Philip Jose...)
( In one volume, here are the last three novels in the cl...)
(British adventurer Richard Francis Burton dies on Earth a...)
(Venus on the Half-Shell and Others collects for the first...)
(This is the second of two volumes issued together by The ...)
(Simon Wagstaff narrowly escapes the Deluge that destroys ...)
(First in the "Dayworld" trilogy, which also includes "Day...)
(Second book in the "Dayworld" trilogy, which also include...)
( This one is for fans of Quentin Tarantino and of the ev...)
(The World of Tiers is a series of science fiction novels ...)
("The Lovers" is one of the most controversial and groundb...)
( The Unreasoning Mask is the story of Ramstan, captain o...)
("Charts a territory somewhere between "Gulliver's Travels...)
(A collection of short science fiction takes readers on a ...)
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("This edition was specially created in 1990 for the Book-...)
(Paperback science fiction book by Philip Jose farmer from...)
(Phantasia Press, 1980, hardcover with dustjacket. Limited...)
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(Book 4 of the Riverworld series. Mass Market Paperback, B...)
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Married Bette V. Andre, May 10, 1941. Children: Philip Laird, Kristan.