Philip José Farmer: The Purple Book

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The Purple Book

Genre	Science Fiction
Type	Collection
Series	-

Five stories: "The Oögenesis of Bird City"*, "Riders of the Purple Wage"*, "Spiders of the Purple Mage", "The Making of Revelation, Part I" and "The Long Wet Purple Dream of Rip van Winkle".
Only two stories, marked with an asterisk (*), are in the Italian edition.
DEDICATION: --

COVER TEXT:
Nothing left but the fun...? Soon machines will not only do our work for us, but our thinking, too. What happens when nothing needs to be done, when we are all Riders of the Purple Wage? The answer is in The Purple Book.
(Tor Books)

PUBLICATION HISTORY
| US | ITALY |

2 Publications

	Publisher Series+no. Bookno. Format Date Pages Price Cover art Notes	FIRST PUBLICATION New York, NY: Tor Books Jim Baen Presents ISBN 0-523-48529-8 paperback (17,5×10,5cm) 08/1982 287 $ 2.95 Howard Chaykin This book has no table of contents for the stories.	Howard Chaykin

ITALY

	Title Publisher Series+no. Bookno. Format Date Pages Price Translation Cover art Notes	Italian: Il libro viola Palermo: Sellerio Fantascienza 7 ISBN 88-389-1211-4 paperback (16,5×12cm) 02/1996 125 L 18.000 Antonella Barbieri Peter Blume Only two stories, marked with an *. With an introduction, "Notizia", by Angelo Barbato.	Peter Blume