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News
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Painting
of the Mother |
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28
June
2010
I
had the art book for many years, since its first publication in 1979,
and I knew it had something related to Farmer in it, but I just had
forgotten to include this piece of art in the bibliography.
We needed Lee Barrie (Rockford IL, US) to remind us of the picture and description
of the Mother by Wayne Barlowe in the art book Barlowe's Guide to
Extraterrestrials. The painting is based on Farmer's story
"Mother",
also published in his collection Strange Relations.
Thanks Lee!
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Another
letter
by PJF |
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27
June
2010
Lee
Barrie (Rockford IL, US) did find again
another published letter by Phil, this time a letter in the fanzine Erbania issue #79,
Fall 1998.
Phil thanked "...for the latest ERBANIA, as usual, an interesting
issue, especially Bob Barrett's absorbing and informative piece on
various aspects of the Tarzan novels...". This piece held some
information Phil used in his own Tarzan novel, The
Dark Heart of Time. He also describes the reason why he
connects Tarzan to "..a certain Hemingway short story...".
The information of this published letter has been added on the Non Fiction: Letters page.
Thanks again Lee!
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Limited
edition, order your copy now! |
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22
June
2010
Only
a few days to go for Farmercon V
in Seattle, in the weekend of June 26-27, where a new anthology will be
released. This anthology, The
Worlds of Philip José Farmer: Protean Dimensions,
can be pre-ordered from Mike Croteau, see here.
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Rastignac
the Devil in book format |
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21
June
2010
Last
weekend I received the Wildside Press edition of Rastignac
the Devil. It has been published as a double book, bound back
to back like the old Ace Doubles, with a novella by Randall Garrett, Despoilers of the Golden Empire
(1959).
The book was announced for May, but has a publication date of June 2010.
I have added a new book page
in the section Novels & Collections. The story had been
published solely in book format before, in 1973 in Italy.
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Riverworld:
The Dark Design received |
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16
June
2010
Tor
has published the third Riverworld
novel, The
Dark Design, in a nice trade paperback. It has the same movie
still on the cover as the omnibus with the first two novels, Riverworld,
but this time in red instead of blue.
Today I received a copy of the book for my collection. The information
about this publication has been added on the book page.
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More
letters
by PJF |
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15
June
2010
Roger
Reus (Richmond VA, US) did sent me a while ago the information of a
piece by Phil in the.Science
Fiction Times issue #461 of December 1968. It is published
in the section 'News from the Authors', but it looks like a letter or
part of a letter, so I put it on the page Letters in the
bibliography.
The complete text reads: "Since Baycon I've written the last half of a
novel, an afterword to another, a 10,000 word story for IF, and an
outline for another novel. Besides working a 40-hour week at Douglas
Aircraft. Also, I've been looking for a house to buy since I got back.
I'm preparing the first draft of the initial pamphlet for REAP and also
working out ads and the legal angle."
Recently Lee Barrie (Rockford IL, US) made me aware of a letter in the fanzine The Gridley Wave
issue #13 of January 1964. This one was missing on the Letters page, which has
now been corrected.
The original letter on the pages of The Gridley Wave
can be read online, see here.
Thanks Roger and Lee!
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Riverworld
(2010) on DVD in the Netherlands |
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9
June
2010
Last
week, in our vacation to Portugal, has the Dutch version of the Riverworld (2010)
movie on DVD been delivered at our home address. It had been
sent to me on May 31, according to the invoice, which is weeks before
the official release date of June 22, 2010. See the earlier news on
this.
The definitive Dutch cover of the DVD (at right) looks very different
from the tentative cover and is now more looking like the US cover does.
The tentative Dutch cover.
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I already have seen the first (downloaded) part of the movie, some
weeks ago, but didn't like it that much that I wanted to watch part two
right away. I will give it a second try soon now I have the DVD. Maybe
I'll succeed in watching both parts... I'll let you know.
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Another
eBook |
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8
June
2010
Wonder
eBooks has another story by Farmer that is in the public domain
published as an eBook. It's the story "Some
Fabulous Yonder", published for the first time in April 1963
in the magazine Fantastic.
Amazon lists the publication on its site as an eBook for the Kindle,
but it is not yet available with them. The website of the Wonder
Publishing Group gives no information yet about this
publication.
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Rastignac
the Devil |
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8
June
2010
It
is cheap for publishers to print stories that are in the public domain,
they do not have to pay anymore for the rights to publish it. Farmer's
novella "Rastignac the
Devil" is such a story. It's already available a a free audio
book and as a free eBook (see here),
but now you also can buy a trade paperback with the story.
Wildside
Press has published in May as #3 in their series Wildside
Double
this story, bound together with Despoilers
of the Golden Empire, by Randall Garrett. The paperback
(ISBN 978-1434410054) has a price of $14.95.
I ordered a copy with Amazon.com. As soon as I have received the book a
new book page will be added in the bibliography.
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Back from
a short vacation |
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8
June
2010
My
wife and I had a week vacation in Portugal, in the city Albufeira
in the south of Portugal. It has been a hot week with temperatures from
35º till 40º C (95-104º F).
Most we did over there has been reading while on the beach. Some of the
books I have read in this week are Boneshaker
by Cherie Priest and Death
of a Starship by Jay Lake. Very different stories, but I
love them both.
Boneshaker
has its setting in Seattle, but a completely other city than we have
today. Hopefully Farmercon V
will –at the end of this month– be held in today's
Seattle, rather than in Boneshaker's
Seattle. You wouldn't love to be there in that case I can assure you.
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Albufeira beach |
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| Added
Books |
Two book publications were
added on the book pages in June.
 The Dark Design
The new edition from Tor (2010).
Rastignac the Devil
The new publication from Wildside Press (2010).
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| Statistics |
These are the
numbers for the book pages in June 2010.
1689
publications
1123 different covers
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