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News
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On the
trail of Tarzan |
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31
May
2011
The
writer Simon Sanahujas and the photograper Gwenn Dubourthoumieu, two
friends living in France, made in 2009 a trip to Africa: "...we went to
Gabon with this crazy idea to investigate the legend of Tarzan."
Their adventures during this trip, and some of the photos that were
made, were published on their blog Sur la piste de
Tarzan. The blog is in French of course, but here is the link
to the by Google in English translated
blog.
After a year of work they had put the complete story and the photos
down in an interesting book, also with the title Sur la piste de Tarzan
(translated: On the
Trail of Tarzan).
If the French language is no problem for you and if you are interested
in the book, it can be ordered via Amazon.fr
for only € 19,00
(ISBN 978-2915793994).
Simon and
Gwenn
Merci
Christian Gitton (Paris) for this information!
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Mad
scientist |
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30
May
2011
In
the early days of science fiction many a story was about a scientist,
usually a mad scientist, doing some eerie experiments. In many cases he
was using a woman for his tests. Many of the old science fiction
magazines showed a picture depicting such a scene, with a scientist and
a lady in distress.
With "How Deep the Grooves"
Farmer
has written his own mad scientist story. Here the scientist, Doctor
James
Carroad, is using his wife and their unborn baby for a 'harmless'
experiment. The results of this experiment are quite different than
expected.
The story has been reprinted recently in Up
the Bright River. Another story page has been redone.
Illustration
by Dan Adkins in Amazing.
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Vernon
Kramer |
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A
Hole in Hell |
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25
May
2011
What
happens if old accursed enemies on Earth meet one another again in the
afterlife on the banks of the Riverworld? All is forgiven and
forgotten? Or are they still enemies?
Dante Alighieri and Pope Boniface VIII are still enemies, and the pope
takes revenge on Dante by keeping him captive in a more than
three-and-a-half meters deep pit. A dirty pit, a very dirty
pit
even. How to escape?
You can read the story "A Hole
in Hell" to have the answers. Look at the restyled story page
to know where you can find the story in.
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Don Ivan
Punchatz |
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Contents
of The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 2 |
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22
May
2011
The
publisher of The Worlds
of Philip José Farme (2): Of Dust and Soul, Meteor
House, as well as the Official PJF
Home Page, have announced the proposed contents of the new
anthology on their websites.
The stories and articles look very promising, several of them never
published before. One of the stories, "Kwasin and the Bear God", is by
Philip José Farmer and Christopher Paul Carey.
On his blog
Chris writes about this: "...the story is based on an alternate outline
fragment by Philip José Farmer to his third,
as-yet-unpublished
Khokarsa novel, The Song of Kwasin.
I'll be posting more behind-the-scenes details on that outline and how
the story came to be in the coming weeks. But for now, know that a new
20,000-word Farmer novella featuring Hadon's ax-swinging, trickster
cousin will be heading your way soon..."
See also Forthcoming
Books.
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Laura Givens |
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Hilarious
Henry |
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20
May
2011
Philip
José Farmer
started his writing career in 1946 with a mainstream story, "O'Brien and Obrenov".
Although he tried many times, Farmer was not very successful in selling
further mainstream stories in
that period, and so started writing science fiction. The first of
these, the story "The
Lovers" (1952) was very well received. It even brought him
his first Hugo Award.
Farmer kept writing sience fiction from then on, but now and then tried
to sell a story outside the genre.
One of the non-sf stories is "The
Henry Miller Dawn Patrol", published in December 1977 in the
American Playboy.
It's a very hilarious story about an old fighter pilot in his last days
in a nursery home, where he is spooking around at dawn with the ladies.
The story won him again an Award, the Annual
Playboy Editorial Award (1978).
Illustration
in Playboy
by Warren Linn.
The story page has
now been restyled.
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Arny Freytag
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Another
Freshman |
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15
May
2011
I
restyled the story page of "The
Freshman"
about a month ago. It seems that I still had missed a publication,
because I just discovered a Greek translation of this story, published
in 1997.
It had been published in the anthology Ιστορίες
της
Μυθολογίας
Κθούλου
/2 (Stories
of the Chtulhu Mythology, volume 2) by publisher Orora.
This publication has been added to the story page.
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Achilles'
heel |
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8
May
2011
Editors
H.L. Gold and Frederik Pohl published in May 1960, exactly fifty-one
years ago, the short science fiction story "Heel" by Philip
José Farmer in their magazine If.
The story is about making a movie of the ancient Greek battles, with
the ancient godlike creatures, like Apollo, Thetis, and Achilles.
""Heel" didn't make much of an impression on publication and got only
reprinted in the
fanzine Farmerage No. 2
(1978) and in the collection Pearls from Peoria (2006).
It also saw a French (1969) and a German (1966) translation and
publication.
See the restyled story page.
The original publication in If
had a nice two-page illustration by Virgil Finlay, see below. This
illustration
has also been reprinted in Farmerage
No. 2, and in the French magazine Galaxie.
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Virgil
Finlay |
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Author's
Note |
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6
May
2011
Philip
José Farmer wrote an "Author's
Note" at the end of the story "Crossing
the Dark River", in which note he writes that the story will
be continued and explains why he uses some of his ancestors as
characters for this Riverworld
story.
This note had been overlooked by me and so hadn't been included in the
bibliography. This has now been corrected.
My friend Willem Hettinga discovered the note in the new collection Up
the Bright River. Thanks Willem!
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Don Ivan
Punchatz |
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Who
Killed Science Fiction? |
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1
May
2011
Back
in 1960 Earl
Kemp
had five questions he liked to have answered for his
project "Who Killed Science Fiction?". These question were sent to more
than one hundred well known science fiction people. Kemp received
seventy-three responses, which he printed in the fanzine SaFari Annual #1.
This publication won him a Hugo Award for best fanzine in 1961.
One of the responders was Philip José Farmer, with a short anonymous piece and a very
longer answer to the questions.
A second edition of "Who Killed Science Fiction?" was planned for 1980,
with lots of new material. The publication fell through however,
because of lack of money.
Earl Kemp published the 1980 edition online in 2006 in his fanzine e*I*29`.
And now, with a new 2011 introduction, there is a printed version of
the second editon. Published in a nice trade paperback by The
Merry Blacksmith Press, for a price of US$ 13.95.
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