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News
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Essay
about Farmer and Rosny Ainé |
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31
Aug
2010
Black
Coat Press published this year seven books, omnibuses, with
the works of the French author J.-H. Rosny Ainé (1856-1940).
One of the volumes is The
Mysterious Force, which contains Hareton Ironcastle's Amazing
Adventure. This is the original of the by Phil Farmer
translated and retold Ironcastle. Now you can
compare the two publications, if you wish.
The seventh volume of Rosny's work, Helgvor
of the Blue River, has an Afterword by Paul
Wessels & Jean-Marc Lofficier. They are analyzing Rosny's
writings and ideas In this very interesting essay, and mention the
shared ideas and themes in both the works by Rosny and Farmer, like
philosophy, politics, love between a human and an alien, and Sufism.
With the last subject the writers are referring to an essay by
Christopher Paul Carey, "How Much Free Will Does a Pumpkin Have?
(Philip José Farmer and Sufism)", published in Farmerphile
Issue No.12, April 2008. This essay can be read
online, as well as the Afterword by Paul Wessels &
Jean-Marc Loffiecier (see here).
Jean-Marc Lofficier wrote another article before
about Rosny and Farmer, published in Farmerphile
Issue No. 2, October 2005.
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Vincent Laik |
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The Song
of Kwasin to be published? |
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25
Aug
2010
Earlier
this year, in February,
I asked Christopher Paul Carey if something was known about the
publication plans for The Song of Kwasin. He
could not tell us anything at that moment, but: "...later this year I
expect
to be able to announce some exciting news...".
Only an excerpt of the novel has been published so far, in Farmerphile,
Issue No. 13, July 2008. This issue is still available at the Official PJF
Home Page.
Well, it's now later this year, but we still haven't received an
announcement about The
Song of Kwasin.
However, Chris writes on August 21 in his
blog about when we might see The Song of Kwasin
in print: "...to hold on on just a little longer, it's in the
tubes...".
I really hope that this might mean that we finally can look forward to
the third novel in the Opar
(Khokarsa) series. We still need a little more patience to
know for sure it
seems.
Christopher's entry in his blog is also interesting because he gives a
family three with the genealogical relationships between the characters
in the Opar (Khokarsa) series.
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Vladimir Verano |
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Last two
Riverworld novels from Tor |
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22
Aug
2010
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New works
about Phil? |
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22
Aug
2010
If
you search one of the online bookshops, like Amazon or B&N, for
available books by Philip José Farmer you will now get
several
new books about Farmer also. Or... are they really about Phil? Because
according to the titles the books are about a lot of other people or
works too.
Titles like: Works by
Philip Jose
Farmer: Novels by Philip Jose Farmer, Riverworld, Short Stories by
Philip Jose Farmer, Wold Newton, Wold Newton Family. Yes,
that's is the title of only one book! See the cover at right.
There is another one that starts with Novels by Philip Jose Farmer:
etc. etc., and another Doc
Savage: Philip Jose Farmer, etc. etc. There are at least
three more books.
What are these books and who has written
or
edited them? All these books have been published by Books LLC, and the
texts in the books all come from...Wikipedia! Yes, that's right. Books
LLC copied and pasted the Wikipedia texts and put them in a book, Okay,
they added a table of contents and even an index, and all the pages are
neatly numbered, but that's all that is original next to the Wikipedia
articles.
If you want the online articles printed in a book, that's fine, just
buy them. But the contents is for free on the internet on Wikipedia.
These pieces are regurlarly updated with new information, the books are
not. Or maybe they are, because they are printed on demand.
If you want to know what is in the first book I mentioned, Works by Philip Jose Farmer:
Novels by etc. etc. have a look at this
page at Wikipedia, everything that´s under
'Subcategories´ is in the book of 342 pages.
And have a look at this
page at Wikipedia for the contents of Doc Savage: Philip Jose Farmer,
etc. etc.
I will not add these books in the bibliography.
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Another
seven short fiction pages |
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19
Aug
2010
The
pages of two poems, "Beauty
in this Iron Age" and "Black
Squirrel on Cottonwood Limb's Trip", and the pages of five
stories are restyled.
The five stories —most of them dealing with
religion— are "The
Biological Revolt", a never reprinted story because the
editor of the magazine had it rewritten without permission, "The
Blasphemers", a novelette about the search for divinity, "The
Blind Rowers", a short story about retribution, "A Bowl Bigger than Earth",
a novelette about the afterlife, and "Brass
and Gold (or Horse and
Zeppelin in Beverly Hills)", one of the stories in the series
'Polytropical Paramyths'.
Farmer himself called "Brass and Gold" one of the Beverly Hills
Trilogy. This story and the other two, "Down
in the Black Gang" and "Riders
of the Purple Wage", were written at a time while he and his
family lived in Beverly Hills. All three stories take place there.
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Joseph Tauber |
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Ed´s
Checklist |
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17
Aug
2010
Philip
José Farmer loved the Tarzan novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Phil liked the Tarzan character so much that he wrote several stories
about or related to him, and even wrote a biography about Lord
Greystoke, Tarzan Alive.
As I said there are many references in Farmer´s work to
Tarzan,
and so, it´s no wonder that we come across Phil´s
name and
stories in Ed´s
Checklist, the ultimate
checklist
of all the editions and printings worldwide of the works by Edgar Rice
Burroughs! Printings from over thirty nations in Newspapers, Magazines,
Fanzines and Books. Listed also are Pastiches, Art Books and Reference
Books.
Ed´s
Checklist is compiled by Lee J. Barrie, who has done an
extraordinary job collecting all the data in the checklist of nearly
600 pages.
There are only two copies printed of the book. One copy will be going
to the University of Louisville, where the Edgar Rice Burroughs
Memorial Collection is at. The second copy will be auctioned off at the
Annual DUM-DUM,
August 21, 2010 in Chicago. All auction funds go to support the
Memorial Collection.
Ed´s
Checklist
is not for sale as a book, but you can buy a copy of the checklist on
CD-Rom. The checklist is a standard PDF document. The CD-Rom comes with
many cover scans of the international editions. For US$30 plus shipping
you can buy a copy of the checklist. Order your copy from Lee J. Barrie
at leejb10003 @
comcast.net (note:
delete the spaces around the at-sign).
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SubPress
has eBay Auctions |
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12
Aug
2010
Subterranean
Press has the news
that they have a ton of auctions
on eBay. One of the
many books SubPress is selling through eBay is the trade edition of
Farmer´s and Eckert´s The
Evil in
Pemberley House.
The original price was $ 40, but it is for
sale now at eBay for only $ 12. So, if you haven´t a copy yet
(or want a second one or for a
gift maybe) now is the time to snatch a copy from eBay. It's really a
bargain for such a great story!
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Glen Orbik |
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The Alley
Man & Attitudes - story pages |
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7
Aug
2010
Two
new story pages have been finished. The pages of "The Alley Man", a story
about an anthropologist who investigates the last pure-blooded
Neanderthal still alive, and "Attitudes",
the first story about Father
John Carmody, are now restyled.
"The Alley Man" has had 46 publications in nine countries since its
first publication in 1959 and "Attitudes" had 27 publications in ten
countries since the original publication in 1953.
Philip José Farmer wrote about "The Alley Man" in his
introduction to the story: "This seems to have called forth either
cries of "Bravo!" or "Abomination of abominations!"... Most of the
opinions must have been the "Bravo!" it seems, because the story got
nominated for the Hugo Award.
It didn't win, alas. Daniel Keyes's story "Flowers for Algernon" did
win the
award that year.
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Emsh |
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Lord
Greystoke Chronology |
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2
Aug
2010
I
did receive a copy of the newsletter with the ERBzine Weekly of late
July. Lee Barrie (Rockford IL, US) was so kind to send me the
newsletter.
In the newsletter with ERBzine 1501 is "A Chronology of Lord
Greystoke", adapted from Farmer's Tarzan Alive. If you are
interested in the chronology you should check this volume of ERBzine,
see here.
I didn't see any references however to the events in Farmer's Tarzan
novel, The
Dark Heart of Time (1999).
Thanks Lee!
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