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News
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Editor
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September 2008
The
Philip
Jose Farmer Encyclopedia has an editor!
Paul Spiteri (UK) is going to co-ordinate activity and act as general
editor.
If you would like to be involved feel free to drop him a line and he
can keep you updated on progress and let you know how you can help. At
the moment Paul is looking at how best to present the information and
what 'rules' we should try to adopt to ensure a consistent and
professional feel to the encyclopedia.
As Paul writes: "I don't want people to go rushing off before we've
thought it through properly."
You can write Paul an email at paul@pjfarmer.com.
The first few steps to create the Philip
José Farmer Encyclopedia have been done. Rick
Beaulieu arranged the web space and the installation of the software
for
the encyclopedia. The new website will be linked to the Official
PJF Home Page. As soon as there is some content
and we get
the 'Go!' from Paul we will publish the new internet address.
Today I received the first enthusiastic reaction from Russell Wright
(Australia): "Wow
Rias. Great idea. Scarily GGGGRRRREEEEAAAATTTT amount of work. Which
titles are you planning on doing, and do you have an outline as to what
you want/expect?"
If you think of all the work that has to be done to write the many
entries then it is scary, very scary even! But there is no deadline, it
doesn't have to be ready —if it ever will be ready—
before a certain
date. Like the PJF websites it will be growing over the years.
The above information from Paul answers the question about the outline
I think.
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Philip
José Farmer Encyclopedia |
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September 2008
A
few months ago I launched the idea of starting an online Philip
José Farmer
Encyclopedia to some of the other Farmerphiles. An index
with entries on all the names of the characters in Phil's writing, the
places where the story plays, like planets and cities, the (recurring)
subjects and themes in his writing, and anything else Farmerian that is
worth mentioning in this encyclopedia. As long as it is about Phil and
especially his work. Background information on his writing as far as is
known, coming from interviews with Phil and his articles for instance.
The encyclopedia is not intended to redo what has already been done on
both the Farmer websites, the Official
PJF Home Page and this one, the International Bibliography.
Or what already has been done on the Wold Newton Universe websites.
The original idea is also not to start a Farmer Encyclopedia mixed with
a WNU Encyclopedia. Of course there will be crossovers to the WNU. Phil
Farmer started the idea of the Wold Newton Family, but the expanded WNU
is not typical Farmer anymore.
The Philip
Jose Farmer Encyclopedia has not been started yet. It will
take a huge amount of time to write entries for the encyclopedia and to
fill it with enough information before publishing it online.
Then why do I write about this project? To ask the readers for feedback
on the idea and also to ask for help writing entries. Most or all of
the people to whom I originally launched this idea have other
obligations and they do have only small amounts of time to help on this
project.
One of the Farmerphiles already volunteered to help out as an editor
and to take the lead on this. But we need more volunteers.
So, if you want to and can help or if you have any ideas or other
feedback on this project please email me (see menu) or email Mike Croteau of
the Official
PJF Home
Page.
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PJF Forum
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25
September 2008
As
of today the PJF Forum
is back online. The moderator of the forum, Rick Beaulieu, writes
in his mail: "Sorry that the forum was down for so long, but I was
having trouble with the upgrade that we needed to stop a spammer that
was abusing the site. I was able to get the update installed on the new
server, and have it working now." On the PJF Forum is more
information from Rick about the move to a new server.
Please note that the forum has a new internet
adres!
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Back
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21
September 2008
The
Official
Philip José Farmer Home Page is now back online.
With the first announcement it looked like it would maybe take at least
several
days before the site would be up and running again, but it is great
news that it didn't take that long.
However, the PJF Forum
is not yet back online again. The forum needs an update of the
software to block all the spam messages it was getting every day.
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Official
PJF Home Page is down |
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19
September 2008
The
site of the Official
Philip José Farmer Home Page is temporarily
offline since today. Mike Croteau, the webmaster, writes about why the
site
is being down: "It is being moved to a new server, but unfortunately
hurricane evacuations have delayed things. If we need to post further
updates, you will be able to find them on Phil's myspace blog.
Hopefully the site will be back online in a just a few days."
Mike also invites everyone to visit his own new blog.
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Soon now,
the lettered edition of Venus |
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14
September 2008
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Locus
with news about PJF (2) |
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13
September 2008
Chris
Carey emailed what the news
in Locus #572 is really about. While my copy of this issue is still on
its way with the post, Chris received his.
Unfortunately, Chris writes, it's nothing we didn't already know:
"Philip José Farmer resold Dare to IDW Press via Chris
Lotts of the Ralph Vicinanza Agency. TV rights to his Riverworld series were
optioned to Hallmark Productions via Lotts and Vince Gerardis of
Created By."
Thanks Chris!
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Official
PJF Home Page updated |
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13
September 2008
Mike
Croteau published the monthly update of the Official
Philip José Farmer Home Page right on time this
month, on September 9th. Biggest news
is that Farmer's agents have sold "a major TV option" on the Riverworld series, and
re-sold rights to Dare to IDW
Press to be published in their new line New
Classics of the Fantastic.
Our good friend Mike also felt the need to correct something I
mentioned earlier on
this page, that his official PJF website will be redesigned soon.
But I have given no indication as to when the restyling would
take place. However, I'm just curious and would love to see the changes
soon... But as I understand we will have to wait at least till next
year before this happens.
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Notes
from the Underground |
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10
September 2008
Subterranean
Press announced in their newsletter, Notes from the
Underground, of today: "We're also expecting a large
shipment of long overdue traycases for various lettered editions that
could arrive at any time, and will be shipping those as soon a they're
in our offices, and letting everyone know which titles are included.
Got that? Good, there will be a test later."
This information can also be found on the website of Subterranean
Press, under "Latest News".
Hopefully this shipment means that the traycases for Venus
on the Half-Shell and Others do arrive too...
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A new
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10
September 2008
The
German journalist Christian Endres, who wrote an article
about the Riverworld novels for Zitty
recently, will write another article about Farmer and his work. This
time mainly about Farmer's Wold
Newton Family, which has been expanded into the Wold Newton
Universe (WNU).
For this he has interviewed Win
Eckert about the WNU and his book Myths
for the Modern Age. As Win writes in his email, parts of the
interview with him will be used in the article, but the complete
interview will be published online at the German science fiction
website Fantasyguide.de
eventually.
The new article by Christian Endres will be published in the German
science fiction magazine phantastisch!
#33, the January 2009 issue. See the publisher's website.
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New
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10
September 2008
Win
Eckert has sent an email to alert us of the news at a German
science fiction website Fantasyguide.de
("Neue Bücher
von
SF-Altmeister Philip José Farmer!")
about the four new Farmer stories — a short story and three
novels — written in collaboration with four different
writers. This has been announced at Farmercon90 and mentioned earlier
on this site.
The news about the collaborations is slowly but nicely spreading around
it seems.
Thanks Win!
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Locus
with news about PJF |
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8
September 2008
The
new issue of the magazine Locus,
issue 572 of September 2008, will have some news about Philip
José Farmer. See the online Table
of Contents.
As I do not have the printed magazine yet I cannot tell you what this
news is about exactly, but it probably is about the new novels
by Phil Farmer and his collaborators as mentioned here earlier.
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Official
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3
September 2008
At
the Farmercon 90 weekend three grandsons of the Farmers were present
also. One of them, Torin Farmer, who lives in the city of Dusseldorf in
Germany, said that he was willing and so had offered to redo the
website of the Official
PJF Home Page.
That website has not changed in the more than ten years of its
existence. The webmaster, Mike Croteau, does not have the time to
completely restyle the webpage. The site has become too big.
I know what it takes to redesign a complete website. More than two
years have I been working on the new lay-out of the International Bibliography,
and I'm still not finished yet. Some book pages have yet to be redone,
also all the pages with the stories, and then the pages "Work About
PJF" again, because they have become much too long.
It is not only the redesign which takes so much of my time, but also
because I'm checking again all the info in the Bibliography
against the books and magazines in my collection or in some cases
against the online information.
This is not something Torin Farmer has to do when he makes the new
design of the Official
PJF Home Page. It sure will take him some time though to
redo the website completely. I'm curious already how the new looks, and
the navigation, of the site will be. And of course when it will be
ready so we can see it online...
Torin Farmer, in the garden of his
grandparents home in Peoria.
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SubPress
announcement |
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1
September 2008
Today
Subterranean Press
announced the new book by Phil Farmer they will
publish next year, The
Other in the Mirror: "...brings together three classic novels
by Philip José Farmer: Fire
and the Night, Jesus
on Mars, and Night
of Light. All three are united by one of SF’s
central tropes, that of The Other".
The
Other in the Mirror will be available in three editions:
- 26 signed leatherbound copies, in a traycase - $300
- 125 signed numbered copies, slipcased - $125
- fully cloth bound hardcover edition - $45
The omnibus will have 496 pages and the illustration on the dust jacket
will be done by Bob Eggleton.
It can be preordered now with the publisher, see here.
The information with Forthcoming
Books has been changed according to the announcement.
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German
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1
September 2008
The
writer of "Down by the
Riverside", Christian Endres, sent me an email that his
article had been published online also, since 19 August on the website
of sf magazin,
a German news and reviews site.
So, if your knowledge of the German language is good enough you can
read it on the internet. Or have the page translated in your browser
via Google for instance.
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