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News
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Blue,
Red, Purple and... Green |
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27
Dec
2010
The
cover, or rather the color of the fifth and final novel in the Riverworld series, Gods
of Riverworld, has now been announced by publisher Tor.
All four books —the first two novels were published in one
book— have the same movie
still, but in different colors. This has not been a big or very
creative job with the covers, but you can instantly tell that the four
books are part of the same series. It also helps that the series title,
Riverworld, flashes big on each cover.
Tor
will publish this novel in February 2011. You can pre-order it with the
publisher or with any of the online bookshops.
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The plump
and bustling Father |
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21
Dec
2010
Mary
Turzillo Brizzi wrote
about the Father John
Carmody stories: "Farmer jolts readers with religious
speculation. In the Father Carmody stories, collected in Night
of Light and Father to the Stars, a
hardened murderer, John Carmody, partakes of religious rites on the
planet Dante's Joy and emerges a saint and father to a god."
Roger Zelazny liked the Father Carmody stories very much, so when they
were collected in Father
to the Stars he gladly wrote a Foreword
in the book.
The story page of the second one of the Father Carmody stories, "Father",
has now been redone. There have been 42 publications globally
of this story.
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Nicholas
Solovioff |
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A story
that launched Farmerphile |
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11
Dec
2010
The
premier issue of Farmerphile
(2005) published a very funny story by Phil Farmer, "The Face thaut Launched a
Thousand Eggs". The story was written in 1953, but had stayed
unpublished since.
This story and the other unpublished manuscripts in Phil Farmer's files
has been the reason for Michael Croteau to launch the solely to Farmer
dedicated fanzine Farmerphile.
The editor, Christopher Paul Carey, wrote this in his intoduction to
the story: "...a story which makes use of all the wit, derring-do, and
reference to mythology that readers have come to expect from the Wizard
of Peoria. At a very young age, Phil Farmer devoured Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey ...
While Homerian currents run throughout many of Phil's stories there is
perhaps no more clever tribute to the ancient Greek bard than "The Face
that Launched a Thousand Eggs." Here Homer's Greeks are metaphorically
woven throughout and meshed with the fraternal 'Greeks' of college
campus life."
This story page
has now been restyled.
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Keith Howell |
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Books
Blog: Back to the Hugos on PJF |
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8
Dec
2010
The
British newspaper The
Guardian had a feature on Philip José Farmer's To
Your Scattered Bodies Go.
Sam Jordison posted his piece on November 12, 2010 in the Books Blog:
"f you can forgive the clumsy exposition, overt sexism and attacks on
personal enemies, this one is just about worth reading".
Sam concludes his piece with: "The pace is all out of whack and there
are big problems with the expansion and contraction of time. The end,
meanwhile, descends into utter farce and doesn't even bear describing,
beyond the coining of the lovely word "chronoscope" for a device that
looks back into time to record human histories and project them onto
new bodies. Even at his worst, Farmer has great ideas. Which makes the
book just about worth reading – even if doing so is pretty
painful."
Read the complete text —and all the comments from
readers— at the website of The
Guardian.
Phil in 1977 in Denmark. Photo: Lars-Olov Strandberg
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Bob Eggleton |
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The
Fabulous Riverboat, parts I and II |
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6
Dec
2010
The
serial "The Fabulous Riverboat"
had been published in two parts in the science fiction magazine If in June and
August 1971.
Both parts have been translated in French and published, again in two
parts, in the French magazine Galaxie,
in 1972.
The short fiction page with this serial has now been restyled.
Both parts were included in the 1971 novel The
Fabulous Riverboat, the second novel in Philip
José Farmer's famous Riverworld
books.
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Jack Gaughan |
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