Meteor House will publish this summer the second volume of a new anthology series. So far only the cover has been announced, no contents yet, of The Worlds of Philip José Farmer (2): Of Dust and Soul.
A book to look forward to, especially when the contents is something like the first book in this series!

The cover has been painted by Laura Givens, see her website. The original painting, "Man and God", is also in her gallery.

Two weeks ago I mentioned the discovery of an unknown Farmer story, "The Many Dooms of Harold Hall". This had been written as by Charlotte Corday-Marat, a pseudonym Phil had used elsewhere, before we knew of this publication.
But we had no solid evidence that Phil really had written this newly found story, other than the used pseudonym.

So, we asked several people if they know anything at all about the story, or if they could find anything in their archives about it. Mike Croteau, webmaster of the Official PJF Home Page, did not find any reference to it in Phil's files. Mike would ask Gary K. Wolfe, Robert Silverberg and some others if they can confirm the authorship. Maybe this gives some news. Can't wait for the update of Mike's site.

We asked George Scheetz, old time friend of the Farmers and the editor of the fanzine Farmerage, if he had any information on the story. George had been working, in the early 1980s, on a bibliography of Farmer's work. No luck there either, alas.

People were asked to read the story and give their verdict if it might have been written by Farmer. Christopher Paul Carey, Win Scott Eckert, Mike Croteau and Paul Spiteri have read it, more than once, but none of them is completely convinced. Yet, they do not deny that Farmer could have written it.

There is no solid proof yet that Philip José Farmer wrote the newly discovered story "The Many Dooms of Harold Hall". But I'm pretty convinced that Phil wrote it, after having read the mildly funny story. I have read it several times now, and the feeling stays.
It is a minor Farmer story –that might also be the reason why Phil didn't acknowledge his authorship of it– but the story shows some typical Farmerisms.
This and the used pseudonym are reasons enough for me to include the story in Farmer's bibliography. See the new story page.

According to the magazine editors in their introduction: "...and we are sure you'll have a ball with «The Many Dooms of Harold Hall»..." We did...!