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News
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The Magic
Labyrinth - page restyled |
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May 2009
The Magic Labyrinth
(1980) is the fourth novel in the Riverworld
series and was originally intended to be the final one in the
series.
Farmer wrote this foreword to the novel: "Now ends the Riverworld
series, all loose ends tied together into a sword-resisting Gordian
knot, all the human mysteries revealed, the millions of miles of The
River and the many years of quests and The Quest completed."
But still many questions were left unanswered and so Farmer wrote a
fifth and this time for real the final novel in the series, Gods
of Riverworld (page not yet restyled).
The book page of The Magic Labyrinth has now
been restyled. Every publication has been checked and rechecked, and
the books were scanned and the covers added on the page. The old page
had 43 publications and 17 cover scans, the new page has 75
publications and 47 scans.
Read an overview
of the Riverworld series, or the description
of the The Magic
Labyrinth, at Wikipedia.
Or read the review of the series by Steve Lazarowitz at the SF Site,
where the reviewer still thought that the series ended with The Magic Labyrinth.
Even better, read the novel yourself...!
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Ackerman
and Farmer |
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24
May 2009
I
received my copy of Dark
Discoveries Issue 13, Spring 2009. This issue, as announced before, has an article
by Henry Covert, "Ackerman and Farmer: A Strangeness of Mind". This article is about the
meetings between Forry and Phil, in the flesh as
well as in the writing, and their enduring friendship of 55 years.
Farmer wrote a commendation
about Ackerman in the Lunacon '74 Program Book, wrote a parody of him
—with the character Woolston Heepish— in the novel The
Image of the
Beast, and let Forry appear as himself in the sequel, Blown.
James R. Beach, the publisher, writes in his foreword about the new
looks of Dark
Discoveries, but also promises us: "...look for a feature
on Farmer in an upcoming issue..".
Dark
Discoveries #13 can be ordered here.
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Another
Russian omnibus |
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May 2009
All
seven novels of the World
of Tiers series had been published in two omnibuses, in 2006
and 2007, by the Russian publishers Eksmo (Moscow) and Domino (St
Petersburg).
In November 2008 the series was reprinted by the same publishers, and
this time all novels together in only one large omnibus of 1024 pages, Многоярусный мир.
The new information has been added on the book pages of the omnibus and
the separate novels, except for the three pages that haven't been
restyled yet (that will follow a.s.a.p.), and also on the page New Publications in 2008.
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Wildside
Books in 2007 |
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May 2009
The
novel The
Green Oyssey has been printed and reprinted several times
since it is in the public domain.
Waking Lion Press had two editions in 2006 and one in 2008 (see here). But we
hadn't noticed until now the editions from Wildside Books, a hardcover
under the imprint Borgo Press and a trade paperback under the imprint
Brownstone Books. Both editions —with the misspelled first
name
PHILLIP on the cover— were published in September 2007, and
have now been added on
the book page.
The trade paperback can be bought online with Amazon and B&N,
the hardcover at B&N only.
These books have also been added on the page New Publications in 2007.
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Russian
Riverworld omnibus |
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May 2009
The
Russian publishers Eksmo (Moscow) and Domino (St Petersburg)
jointly published in May 2007 the
first Riverworld omnibus, with the first three novels in the Riverworld
series.
It seems I missed the second omnibus, that came some months later, in
November 2007, in hardcover, Мир
Реки: Магический лабиринт. This
omnibus contains the last
two Riverworld novels in the series, Магический лабиринт (The
Magic Labyrinth)
and Боги Мира Реки
(Gods
of Riverworld).
I discovered this omnibus while working at the restyled page of The
Magic Labyrinth, which is not yet ready to put it online.
The information has also been added on the page New Publications in 2007.
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Article
in Dark Discoveries #13 |
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May 2009
The
magazine Dark
Discoveries #13, Spring 2009, a special Forest J
Ackerman Remembered issue, has an article "Ackerman meets Philip
José Farmer".
This article is by Henry Covert: "...check out my article on Phil's
relationship with Forry Ackerman in the new issue of Dark Discoveries
magazine".
Henry Covert also wrote the introductions to the Wold Newton Universe
for Astonishing
Adventures Magazine, see here.
Dark
Discoveries #13 can be ordered on this site.
I am looking forward to my ordered copy.
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Farmercon
IV |
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11
May 2009
Less
than a month away will Farmercon
IV, The Philip José Farmer Memorial Gathering,
be held in Peoria. On Saturday June 6th, 2009 at the Lakeview Branch of
the Peoria Public Library.
On the programming a "Panel on PJF's Legacy" and the guests are invited
to share "What PJF taught me".
See the Official PJF
Home Page for
the full program.
I will not be able to attend this special Farmercon, alas. I
cannot make it this time, but I sure wish everyone attending a very
good time and hope you will share a lot of happy memories of
Phil.
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Discovered
story publications |
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10
May 2009
In
February
I received information from Fred Fisher (lives in Houston, Texas, USA)
about
two story publications, till then unknown on these pages.
Later on Fred, a PJF fan and enthusiast collector of PJF's books
internationally, asked my home address because he had "...something
that I would like to send to you as a token of appreciation for your
tremendous help via your website".
This week I received a box from him with two books, and a very nice
letter, in it. The books are the second edition in paperback of The Sociology of the Possible,
with the story "My
Sister's Brother", and the anthology Great Tales of Science Fiction,
Galahad hardcover (1994), with the story "The Sliced-Crosswise
Only-on-Tuesday World". The last one was still unknown on
this site till now.
Thank you Fred, I do appreciate the gift very much!
Fred answered on my thanks with: "I wish you years of continued good
luck with the ongoing work that you do, and I appreciate greatly the
service you provide."
I searched some online sources to check why I had missed the 1994
hardcover of Great Tales
of Science Fiction from Galahad. But I discovered that I
had not only missed
this edition but also two others, the Arbor/Castle hardcover from 1986
and the Crown/Galahad hardcover of 1988 (I'm not sure if this one is a
Book Club Edition).
And while I was checking I also discovered a reprint of the original
anthology, The Arbor
House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces. That one
was reprinted by Priam in 1984 in a trade paperback. See the story page.
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Delayed
publications |
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4
May 2009
The
new Subterranean
Press omnibus The
Other in the Mirror was ready with
the printer at the end of March.
But we have not yet received the book from
the publisher, nor did we receive information when the book would be
shipped.
My e-mail today to the publisher, Bill Schafer, got the reply
that The
Other "is one of the next 3-4 books that will be shipped."
We will have to wait a little more...
MonkeyBrain Books announced a new edition of Two
Hawks from Earth to be published in the Summer of 2008. The
publication date
shifted to May 2009, but it seems the date has been changed
again. Amazon.com now gives July 25, 2009 as the publication date.
The publisher's website
still does not give any information about this novel, the site hasn't
been updated in more than a year.
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No Locus
Nomination for Venus |
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4
May 2009
I
have been away on a short vacation to Spain (found no new Spanish PJF
books for
my collection, alas) and for that reason saw it only just now.
The 2009
Locus Award Finalists have been announced at Locus online a
week ago. Much to my disappointment Venus on the Half-Shell and
Others is not among the five finalists in the catagory
'Collection'.
My petition to Vote
for Venus
hasn't helped it seems.
The publisher of Venus,
Subterranean Press, does have two other (also great) collections as
finalists.
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| Added
Books |
In May 40 new book
publications were added on the book pages.
 Behind
the Walls of Terra
The 2008 Russian publication in the omnibus Многоярусный мир.
The
Green Odyssey
The 2007 editions from Borgo Press (hardcover) and Brownstone Books
(trade paperback).
The
Magic Labyrinth
Thirty-two publications have been added and thirty cover scans on the
restyled page.
The
Maker of Universes
The 2008 Russian publication in the omnibus Многоярусный мир.
More
Than Fire
Publication in the Russian omnibus Многоярусный
мир, 2008.
Red
Orc's Rage
Publication in the Russian omnibus Многоярусный
мир in 2008.
Riverworld
The 2007 Russian omnibus, Мир
Реки: Магический лабиринт, from the publishers Eksmo
& Domino.
World
of Tiers
The Russian omibus Многоярусный
мир with all seven novels, from the publishers Eksmo
& Domino.
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| Statistics |
These are the
numbers for the book pages in May 2009:
1611
publications
1140 different covers
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