The Best of Philip José Farmer
Burton, Mich. : Subterranean Press, 2006.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 572 pages ; 24 cm
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 Jose Farmer? is, hands down, the finest collection of Farmer stories ever assembled.
Contents:
Philip José Farmer: The man with the electric brain / by Joe R. Lansdale -- Lovers -- Sail on! Sail on! -- Mother -- God business -- Alley man -- My sister's brother -- Uproar in Acheron: Introduction -- Uproar in Acheron -- King of beasts -- Shadow of space -- Riders of the purple wage or The great gavage -- Don't wash the carats: A polytropical paramyth -- Jungle rot kid on the nod -- Oogenesis of Bird City -- Sliced-crosswise only-on-Tuesday world -- Sketches among the ruins of my mind -- After King Kong fell -- Henry Miller dawn patrol -- Riverworld -- Making of revelation, Part 1 -- One down, one to go.
ISBN:
1596060360
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SF Farmer | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Science Fiction | In |
"Deluxe Hardcover edition"--Dust Jacket.