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News
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A Woman a
Day |
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March 2008
"An
apple a day keeps the doctor away", but that doesn't apply to a woman a
day. The good doctor, in this case Doctor Leif Barker, plays a leading
role in the novel A Woman a Day. Originally
published in 1960 and for the last time in English in 1980 by
Berkley (US).
Ted Pauls in his review:
"Farmer does a good job of depicting a rather unpleasant future
society, and the writing is technically sound without being either
beautiful or brilliant. Characterization is generally sharp, but the
author goes a little overboard in portraying Barker as a somewhat
pompous figure..." (Science
Fiction Review #42, 1971).
The reason for this entry is not a new edition, alas, but only
that I have restyled the book
page. The old page had 14 covers, the new one has now 23
cover scans.
Still twelve pages to go...
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German
Riverworld (Flusswelt) books |
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23
March 2008
The
postman brought three books from Germany, the first three novels in the
Riverworld
series. Piper published the three Flusswelt novels
in March 2008, in a renewed or completely new translation by Ronald M.
Hahn.
The novels, Die
Flusswelt der Zeit (To Your Scattered Bodies Go),
Auf dem
Zeitstrom (The Fabulous Riverboat) and
Das
dunkle Muster (The Dark Design) are added
on the book pages. These pages are still not redesigned yet, because of
lack of time.
The first book, Die
Flusswelt der Zeit, had been announced also
containing the story "Am dunklen Fluss". But it does not
contain that story, instead it has the third, expanded version of the
novella "Auf dem Fluss"
("Riverworld")
included, together with a foreword
by Farmer explaining why he had expanded the story for the third time.
Later this year will Piper
publish the fourth and fifth book in the
Riverworld series, Das
magische Labyrinth (The Magic Labyrinth) and Die Götter der Flusswelt
(Gods
of Riverworld). These books will be published in November and
December 2008.
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More
Spanish Riverworld novels |
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23
March 2008
On
the website of the Spanish publisher La Factoria de Ideas
can no
information been found about publishing plans for the other novels of
the Riverworld series.
The first novel A
vuestros cuerpos dispersos (To
Your Scattered Bodies Go) got published in September 2007.
So,
I wrote the editor of La Factoria de Ideas, Silvia Rodríguez
Coladas, and asked her about their plans. She answered that more
Riverworld books will be published next year, in 2009 also. The Spanish
readers will have to wait a long time for the next Riverworld novels,
unlike
the German readers.
David Torres wrote a review for the
Spanish newspaper El
Mundo, published in the
January 31, 2008 issue of the magazine El Cultural,
of A vuestros cuerpos
dispersos. The review is illustrated with a recent photo
of Farmer made by Jonas Ramanauskas.
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Numbered
edition of Venus received |
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21
March 2008
Today
came a copy of the limited, numbered and signed editions of the
collection Venus on the Half-Shell and
Others. The book is bound in white leather covered boards and
housed in a blue clothed slipcase.
The information about this edition has been added on the book page.
As I have written before both the limited editions are already sold out
with the publisher, Subterranean
Press.
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"Moi,
Tarzan" |
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16
March 2008
The
French movie maker François Christophe made a documentary in
1996 about the origin and history of Tarzan, with the French
title Moi, Tarzan.
This is of course the translation of "Me, Tarzan".
In this 60 minutes documentary are three Tarzan experts, George T.
McWhorter, curator of the Burroughs Memorial Collection at the
University of Louisville Ekstrom Library in Kentucky (USA), Francis
Lacassin, French journalist, author and specialist in modern myth, and
Philip José Farmer. All three are speaking about Tarzan.
Farmer talks in detail about Tarzan's origin, the real place in Africa
where the Claytons landed, the other discoveries Farmer made about
Tarzan and the interview he had with him, his Tarzan biography Tarzan
Alive, and also about the Wold
Newton
meteorite in relation to Tarzan.
The documentary was made in 1996, but in 2005 it became
available on DVD. You can order the DVD with L'Harmattan
for € 20. The language is French and both Americans are
subtitled in French, but you still can hear Farmer speaking English.
If you want the English version you can have it as Video-on-demand from
Documen.tv
for $4.99. You cannot save this VOD documentary, but you can watch it
full-screen on your computer.
I received the information about this documentary from Christian Gitton
(Paris, France.) Merci Christian!
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editions of Venus sold out! |
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16
March 2008
The
new collection Venus on the Half-Shell and Others
is selling well. Both the limited editions, the 125 numbered and signed
copies in a slipcase as well as the 26 lettered and signed copies in a
traycase, already sold out with the publisher. These editions are sold
out before the actual publication of the books, they are not yet ready
for shipping due to the productiuon time of the slipcases and the
traycases. Maybe one of the limited editions can still be bought with
an
online book dealer, but from Subterranean
Press you can order the
trade edition only.
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Books |
There are
4 publications added on the book pages in March 2008.
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Dark Design
The new German edition (Das
dunkle Muster) from Piper.
The Fabulous Riverboat
The new German edition (Auf
dem Zeitstrom) from Piper.
To
Your Scattered Bodies Go
The new German edition Die
Flusswelt der Zeit from Piper.
Venus on the Half-Shell and Others
The numbered, signed and slipcased edition from Subterranean Press.
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| Statistics |
Due
to the restyling of the book pages I cannot give you exact numbers
right now. When all
is finished I will give these numbers again.
These are the about numbers, the last time - in November 2006 - they
were counted:
1275
publications
750 different covers
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 "Christian 'Tigaer' Hecker")
 "Xu Liang'an")
 "Joshua Caez")
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