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News
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Interview
with Win Scott Eckert |
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August 2009
Some
years ago a few unfinished manuscripts were discovered in
Farmer's
filing cabinet. One of them was the unfinished novel The Evil in Pemberley House,
which Phil had started early 1970s probably. Win Scott Eckert was very
excited about the rediscovery and developed the very bold plan to
finish the novel.
And with success! Subterranean Press will publish the novel shortly,
see under. We had an interview with Win about The Evil in Pemberley House.
Read it here.
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The King
of the Beasts |
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August 2009
In
July (see here)
we added a
second printing of the textbook Beyond
Time and Space,
which includes Farmer's very short story "The King of the Beasts".
Recently discovered are the third and fourth printings of this book.
And even a reprinted edition with the somewhat changed title Stories Beyond Time and Space
(1992), which book has had at least two printings. The contents of this
one is
the same as before.
The book is intended for classroom use. Each story has a short
introduction, and is further accompanied with "Vocabulary Preview",
"Recall", "Infer", "Vocabulary Review" and finally "Critical Thinking".
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The Evil
in Pemberley House ready to ship |
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August 2009
In
the latest newsletter from Subterranean Press
is the announcement that the novel The
Evil in
Pemberley House, written by Philip José Farmer
& Win Scott Eckert, "...is completed and awaiting its turn in
our shipping queue...". So, watch your mailbox the coming weeks, it may
arrive very soon now!
Jackie Cassada at Library
Journal has reviewed the novel, which has been cited on
SubPress's website.
Or read the complete review on the Library Journal site.
We have asked Win Scott Eckert
for an interview about the book. This
might be published next week!
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Worlds of
Philip Farmer |
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August 2009
In
the period 1996-1998 Polaris published a series of twenty-three
hardcovers, Миры Филипа Фармера. Most
of the books are omnibuses with two novels. The complete series brings
a great deal of Farmer's oeuvre, with thirty-six novels, one
collection, and thirty-six stories.
When the series started in 1996 Polaris had its offices still in the
Latvian capital Riga. The books are in Russian however. Later on
Polaris moved to Moscow. So, the books are counted as Russian
publications, rather than as Latvian.
I have restyled the page and have checked all the information again.
There are no new publications added, we already had the twenty-three
books, but the old page had only seventeen covers. The other six have
now been added.
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The City
Beyond Play: 60% off |
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9
August 2009
The
novella The
City Beyond Play has been published in 2007 by PS Publishing
(UK). This novella was started in 1970 by Phil Farmer and much later
finished by Danny Adams, Phil's grandnephew.
From the cover text: "SF with a delightful anachronistic twist, The City Beyond Play
is superb rollicking entertainment, echoing simultaneously The Tempest and The Compleat Enchanter.
If you've ever wondered what you'd do if dropped alone into the High
Middle Ages, The City
Beyond Play is the perfect survival manual."
I loved to read the novella when it was published, I really did. The
reason why I do mention the book here again is that, if you have missed
the book on publication, now is the time to buy one of the last copies
of the trade hardcover edition. They were sold for £10.00
originally, but PS
Publishing is selling them at the moment with 60% off, for
only £4.00 (about $6.40).
The same discount, called Midsummer
madness by the publisher, goes for all pre-2008 titles.
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Tarzan in
Paris |
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August 2009
If
you live in Paris in France or if your vacation happens to bring you
there, and of course if you're interested, you might want to go to a
museum. Because the Museé
du quai Branly has a special Tarzan exposition.
This Tarzan exposition started on June 16 and ends on September 27. See
for the complete info the website of the museum. The French text of the
website can be switched to English.
If you are not able to visit the museum you still can buy the catalog
of the exposition for € 19,50, see here.
Thanks for sharing this information Christian Gitton. Merci!
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Burroughs
Bulletin #81: Farmer issue |
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4
August 2009
Lee
Barrie (US) read in the just published Burroughs
Bulletin #79 the announcement that Issue #81, to be
published in February 2010, will be a commemorative issue to Phil: Philip José Farmer
Issue: The Tarzan Tales.
According to Lee: "Articles are welcome for this issue, especially
concerning his ERB-related works like Tarzan Alive, Lord
Tyger, Lord of the Trees, Mother
Was a Lovely Beast, Adventure of the Peerless Peer,
Flight to Opar, Hadon
of Ancient Opar, Dark Heart of Time and
any other books, particularly like, such as Time's
Last Gift or the Riverworld
series."
The deadline for Issue #81 is December 15, 2009.
See here
for the address (snail and email) to send the articles to for this
issue. Payment information for a subscription is also given.
See here,
nearly at the bottom of the index page, for the announcement of BB#81.
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Booklist
reviewed The Evil in Pemberley House |
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August 2009
The
new novel The Evil in
Pemberley House, written by Philip José Farmer
& Win Scott Eckert, has been reviewed by Booklist (see here
for the online version, you have to register).
Subterranean Press
mentions this - again very positive - review (see an earlier entry on
this site) on their website:
"Part pulp romance, part erotic thriller, Farmer and Eckert’s
yarn is a steamy, intriguing addition to Wold Newton lore."
It looks like we will get a very promising novel with this one if we
rely on all the positive reviews.
Subterranean Press announced
that the novel will be shipped somewhere this month. Hopefully it
arrives on time for me, so I can take the novel with me to read it
while on vacation in Italy. I am looking forward to the book.
If you haven't yet ordered
your copy, maybe you should do it now before they are all gone!
See also the special website
(blog) for this novel.
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New
edition of Two Hawks from Earth |
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August 2009
The
novel Two
Hawks from Earth has a gorgeous new edition from MonkeyBrain
Books. My copy arrived in the mail two days ago.
The alternate history novel appeared for the first time in 1966 under
the title The Gate of
Time. In 1979 the novel was restored with Farmer's
original title Two Hawks
from Earth. Farmer also restored some of the text and
added a few chapters. In his foreword, included in this edition
too, Farmer explains why he did this.
Christopher Paul Carey has written a very interesting Afterword, giving
background information about the novel, and states that the novel
"...not only stands out among these examples of Phil's science
fictional melting pot experiments, it also sparkles as a jewel of the
entire alternate history genre...". Christopher also addresses the
differences between the 1966 text in The Gate of Time and
the revised and restored text in this version.
Today I visited Europe's largest bookfair in Deventer, Netherlands. By
coincidence I found there a copy of the 1966 edition of The Gate of Time,
which edition I already had in my collection. But much to my surprise
this one appeared to be the Canadian printing, which I didn't know
existed till today.
So for that reason there are two new publications added on the book page.
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Two publications were
added on the book pages this month.
 Gate of Time
The 1966 Canadian edition from Belmont Books.
Two
Hawks from Earth
The new edition from MonkeyBrain Books, 2009.
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| Statistics |
These are the
numbers for the book pages in August 2009:
1638
publications
1176 different covers
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 "Salvador Dali")
 "Glen Orbik")
 "V. Kovalev")
 "Dominic Harman")
)
 "Jean-Paul Goude")
 "Lee Moyer")
