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News
& What's New - February 2010 |
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Riverworld
omnibus cover |
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28 February
2010
The
announcement came last year,
that the Riverworld books had been resold to publisher Tor.
The first of the books, Riverworld,
will be published at the end of March 2010.
This is an omnibus with the novels To Your Scattered Bodies Go
and The
Fabulous Riverboat. Tor shows this cover online.
The publication is definitely a tie-in with the new Riverworld movie,
which will be aired in April 2010 in the US on Syfy (see the trailer).
There
is no news about the Riverworld mini-series on Syfy yet, but the air
date has been announced on Cinemablend.
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A new
Farmer collection! |
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21 February
2010
Subterranean
Press will publish at the end of this year another new story
collecton
by Farmer, Up the Bright
River.
According to the news
from SubPress: "Philip Jose Farmer may no longer be with us, but
we’re proud to continue our history of publishing his work.
The latest, Up the
Bright River, is a 120,000 word compendium of short
stories that show off the many worlds Farmer created and worked in,
including the first appearance of the last three Riverworld tales in a
Farmer collection. Up
the Bright River is very much a celebration of
Phil’s wide ranging legacy, lovingly edited by Gary K. Wolfe."
The new collection is planned for publication in December 2010 and will
cost $40.00. It can already be preordered
from Subterranean Press.
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Burroughs
Bulletin #81: a PJF Tribute Issue |
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14 February
2010
Phil
Farmer loved the Tarzan books in his youth, which he mentioned on
several occasions in his books and articles. The character Tarzan
played a major role in much of Phil's work, often under a disguised
name. Finally he was able to fulfill a childhood dream, to write and
publish a 'real' Tarzan novel, The Dark Heart of Time
(1999).
The magazine Burroughs
Bulletin #81 celebrates the work of Philip José
Farmer, with articles about his ERB-related work. Win Eckert's "Foreword" to Tarzan
Alive (2006) has been reprinted. Christopher Carey wrote a
very long and extensive biography
and memoir of PJF, and where his life and work interacted
with that of ERB or his creation Tarzan. Henry G. Franke III gives a bibliography of
Phil's ERB-Related work, and also an article about PJF's
Incarnations of Tarzan. There is also a very short piece about Tarzan Alive by
Septimus Favonius.
Both the front cover as well as the back cover of this issue show
pictures of Tarzan Alive
publications.
Visit the Burroughs
Bibliophiles if you want to order a copy of Burroughs Bulletin
#81.
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Danish
publication |
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14 February
2010
Phil
Farmer was one of the three Guests of Honor at the convention Fabula77
in Copenhagen, Denmark, in May 1977. The other two were Brian W. Aldiss
(UK) and Niels
E. Nielsen (Denmark).
The Danish organization Science Fiction Cirklen published a pamphlet, En anden verden,
with one story each by all of the three Guests of Honor. Farmer's story
"Seventy
Years of Decpop" was translated as "Halvfjerds års
folkefald".
This translation had already been included in the bibliography, but I
did not have a copy of the publication. Last week I received a copy
of it from Mike Croteau, webmaster of the Official Philip
José Farmer Home Page. It came from the estate
of Phil, the story has been signed by him.
I had to correct some of the data on this publication in the
bibliography.
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Farmerphile
Annual |
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10 February
2010
Farmerphile is
back!. This is exciting news from Mike Croteau, which he announces with
the February update of the Official Philip
José Farmer Home Page.
Just a week ago we were
speculating about a new start of Farmerphile,
and here comes the news about Farmerphile
Annual. Great news indeed!
The anthology Farmerphile
Annual 1 will become available with Farmercon V in Seattle
on June 26th.
Farmercon V will be in Seattle the weekend of June 26th. Also in
Seattle that weekend is the Hall of Fame induction at the Science
Fiction Museum, and the Locus Awards ceremony.
My wife and I visited Seattle, and of course the Space Needle and the
Science Fiction Museum in this city, in 2008. The museum is housed near
the Space Needle in a striking building. See the photo.
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"The
Freshman" in Spain |
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8 February
2010
Farmer's
story "The Freshman"
was published for the first time in May 1979 in The Magazine of Fantasy
& Science Fiction. In 1990 editor James
Turner included the story in his Chtulhu anthology, Tales of the Cthulhy Mythos,
published by Arkham House.
This anthology was translated and published in Spain in 2001 by
Valdemar. Years later the Spanish edition has been published again, now
in two parts, by the same publisher. In 2007 appeared the second half
of the book as Cuentos
de los Mitos de Cthulhu: 2. El legado, with Farmers story
"Matriculado en primero".
I discovered this publication only recently and had ordered a copy in
Spain, which arrived last week.
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Burroughs
Bulletin #81 |
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February 2010
It
was announced last year (see here)
that issue #81 of the Burroughs
Bulletin will be dedicated in tribute to Philip
José Farmer. This issue has now been published by the Burroughs
Bibliophiles. A copy of this issue is on its way to me, so I
haven't seen it yet.
The website of the Burrouhs
Bibliophiles does not show yet
the contents of issue #81, but you can see it on the site
of
Christopher Paul Carey. Chris also noted that the numbering on the
cover is wrong —it says New Series #80 where it should say
New Series #81— and he corrected the numbering on the cover
scan on his site.
If you want to order
a copy of the special Farmer issue of the Burroughs Bulletin
be sure to order issue #81!
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2010, a
dull or exciting year? |
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February 2010
In
my contact with Christopher Paul Carey
I 'complained' somewhat about
2010 becoming a bit of a dull year for Farmer fans, compared to the
last few years. No new books announced and no Farmerphiles
anymore. There are plans for a Farmercon this year, but that will not
be like the ones we had in Peoria, with Phil and Bette.
On this Chris said: "By sometime later this year I expect to be able to
announce some exciting news for Philip José Farmer fans."
He would not tell me anything more. I wonder, do you think Chris is
talking about The Song of Kwasin? Or
about a new start of Farmerphile? It
seems we will have to wait till later this year for the answer.
Regarding Farmercon, this is from Mike Croteau in the PJF Newsletter of
January 2010:
"In the spirit of keeping Phil in our hearts and our minds, and perhaps
in the public eye, we believe we have settled on the time and location
of Farmercon V. This year's event will move from Peoria to Seattle, the
weekend of June 26th. Also in Seattle that weekend, is the Hall of Fame
induction at the Science Fiction Museum. NO, Phil is not being inducted
this year."
Watch the Official
Philip José Farmer Home Page for more news about
Farmercon V.
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Review of
The Other in the Mirror |
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February 2010
Robert
M. Tilendis wrote last month a review of the omnibus The
Other in the Mirror, which has been edited by Christopher
Paul Carey.
The review has been published online with The Green
Man Review: "...It
contains three short novels that contain some of Farmer's most probing
examinations of character.
Carey, in his Introduction, frames his discussion of these three novels
within Hegel's concept of the Other —that which is different
than us— as a means of addressing Farmer's approach. In
Hegel's sense, we
achieve a state of self-aware freedom by coming to understand the Other
and incorporating it within ourselves. In Farmer's hands this becomes a
multi-layered phenomenon as identity —a key element of this
idea—
moves from the individual to the group to the Other and back again.
But what Farmer is describing in these novels is not the realization of
self, but the breakdown of the boundary between self and other..."
Telendis concludes his
review as follows: "Philip José Farmer was throughout his
career an iconoclast, tackling subjects within the framework of science
fiction that other writers in the field avoided. (Remember, he's the
man who brought sex into science fiction —in 1952, when sex
was
seldom discussed publicly— even post-Kinsey.) In these three
novels he's done it again. And being by Farmer, of course, they are
eminently readable, seductive and rewarding."
Read the full
review here.
Copies of the omnibus The
Other in the Mirror can still be bought from its publisher
Subterranean
Press, or from any of the online book shops.
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