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News
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Dark
Design the Third |
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30
Sep
2010
We
knew about the first printing in hardcover of The
Dark Design, of
course, and yes, we also knew about Berkley/Putnam's 'Second
Impression' of this hardcover.
But a good friend of mine, Willem Hettinga, informed me about the
existence of the 'Third Impression', found by Michael Hutchins, one of
his co-moderators at the ISFDB.
With thanks to both gentlemen the book page has been corrected.
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Vincent Di Fate |
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Corrections
and Additions |
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29
Sep
2010
I
heard again from Fred Fisher (Houston, USA), he had some additional
information for this Bibliography. First he made me aware of the price
difference between the US and the Canadaion printing of the Signet
Double of Flesh
and Lord
Tyger (1981). I hadn't noticed this before on my copy, but
the books now have seperate entries on the book pages.
Fred also has a copy of the third Canadian printing of Flesh.
I wasn't sure this printing existed till now. The information on the
book page has been corrected.
And finally Fred has a copy of one of the German Flußwelt (Riverworld)
novels from publisher Bechtermünz, that shows a 1996
publication
date. The Bibliography only showed a 1997 publication date.
I checked this information and indeed did Bechtermünz publish
the
four hardcover books as well in 1996 as in 1997. All the involved book
pages have been corrected with the new data.
Thank you Fred!
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Robert Pepper |
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The Doll
and Diamonds |
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27
Sep
2010
Again
two story pages have been restyled. The first with the story "The Doll Game". This one
was written a very long time ago but only published after its
rediscovery in Phil's Magic Filing Cabinet. Farmerphile Issue
No. 5 published it in 2006. The story is about how far 'love thy
neighbor' goes.
And how far goes the love of a wife for her husband when diamonds are
at stake? Farmer called the story "Don't
Wash the Carats" one of his Polytropical Paramyths.
This illustration came with the Greek publication of the story. The
artist is unknown, but it looks like one from Virgil Finlay.
Farmer himself about
the story: "Damon Knight, who bought it for Orbit
3, wasn't sure what it meant, and neither did, or do, I.
But it, and
other paramyths, make the same kind of sense that the French 'theater
of the absurd,' which is dominated by Rumanians and Irishmen, does.
However, my myths have the quality of being much more intelligible."
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Keith Howell |
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Another
Daughter |
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18
Sep
2010
While
redesigning the story page of "Daughter"
I came across conflicting information about an Italian publication. The
story has been published as "Figlia"
in the Grande
Enciclopedia della Fantascienza.
But I found two different publications, two titles and two covers, the
one with No. 18 on it and the other with Volume 3 on it. Where these
publications the same?
After more time searching on the internet I finally found the answer to
this. The Grande
Enciclopedia
was published in 1980-1982 in monthly parts, like a very large
magazine, of about 24 pages each. These parts had their own original
cover, title and numbering.
The publisher Del Drago, had eight of these issues bound in hardcover
volumes, for a total of eleven volumes. I found a copy of Volume 3,
with the story by Farmer in it, for sale, and received it today.
The new information has been added to the story page.
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Doc and
the Doge |
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17
Sep
2010
Farmer
had been invited by producer George Pal to write a screen treatment for
the Doc Savage movie, Doc
Savage: Archenemy of Evil. It would be a sequel to the
1975 film Doc Savage:
The Man of Bronze. But this film didn't do very well and
the plans for the second movie were shelved.
The yet unpublished manuscript was found in Farmer's archives and
published for the first time in the extraordinary collection Pearls
from Peoria (2006), as "Doc
Savage and the Cult of the Blue God".
Phil Farmer wrote two stories under the pseudonym Jonathan Swift Somers III.
Both stories are about a special private investigator, a genetically
enhanced dog. Ralph von Wau Wau is a German Shepherd, but with an IQ of
200.
The second story, "The
Doge Whose Barque Was Worse Than His Bight", was published in
1976 in The Magazine of
Fantasy and Science Fiction, and only thirty years later
reprinted in the above mentioned collection Pearls
from Peoria.
Both story pages have been redesigned.
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Keth Howell
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Charles Berlin |
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The
Daughter of Mother |
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13
Sep
2010
All
thirty-six publications of the short story "Daughter" are
mentioned on the new story page. Most of these publications are in the
collection Strange Relations, which
has had thirty editions or printings in ten countries.
Checking every publication again I discovered that one of the German
publications actually came from Austria, in the fanzine Pioneer from the
SF-Klub Austrotopia. This country has now been added in the Index of Translated Stories.
"Daughter"
is a sequel to the novella "Mother".
Both stories have their setting on the planet Baudelaire, which is why
I named the newly added series Baudelaire.
There is also a new page for the novella "Day of the Great Shout",
which saw only two publications in magazines in the US and France, but
has been published many times since as part of the novel To
Your Scattered Bodies Go.
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Jack Coggins |
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Six new
story pages |
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10
Sep
2010
The
short fiction pages of two Riverworld
stories, "Coda" and
"Crossing
the Dark River", a story from early in Farmer's career, "The Celestial Blueprint",
and the pages of three excerpts of Phil's work are redesigned.
The three excerpts are "The
Caterpillar's Question", "The
City Beyond Play" and "Cougar
by the Tail".
All three stories are written in collaboration with another writer,
with Piers Anthony, Danny Adams and Tracy Knight respectively.
Just this week I received a copy of the German magazine Utopia Nr. 411
(November 1964), with the publication of the story "Die himmlische
Blaupause" ("The Celestial
Blueprint"). Much to my surprise this publication has only
the first half of the story, the second part had been published in Utopia Nr. 413
(December 1964).
Pabel, the German publisher, used short stories to fill up the standard
64 pages of the magazine, if the –often abridged–
novel or novella wasn't long enough.
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| Added
Books |
Five book
publications
were added on the book pages in September.
 The
Dark Design
The third printing of the first hardcover edition (probably early 1978).
The
Dark Design
The German publication (Das
dunkle Muster) from Bechtermünz, 1996.
The
Fabulous Riverboat
The German publication {Auf
dem Zeitstrom} from Bechtermünz, 1996.
The
Magic Labyrinth
The German hardcover (Das
magische Labyrinth) from Bechtermünz, 1996.
To
Your Scattered Bodies Go
The 1996 German hardcover publication (Die Flusswelt der Zeit)
from Bechtermünz.
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| Statistics |
These are the
numbers for the book pages in September 2010.
1695
publications
1126 different
covers
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