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News
& What's New - September 2011 |
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Story and
remembrance in Hungary |
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28
Sep
2011
Issue
229 of the Hungarian science fiction magazine Galaktika
(April 2009) published a remembrance
of
Philip José Farmer, written by Attila Németh, and
also a translation of the story "The
Voice of the Sonar in My Vermiform Appendix" (as "Az
utolsó vakbélmütét").
I found and bought this issue only recently. Both the story and the
remembrance have now been added in the bibliogragphy.
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Jack Zhang |
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Of Dust
and Soul |
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27
Sep
2011
The
new page for the anthology The Worlds of Philip
José Farmer (2): Of Dust and Soul has been made.
The first links are added, but most of the contents has still to
be included in the bibliography. There are more than 250 pages
to be read, with very interesting stories and essays. I want to read
them all, but am especially curious about the story "Kwasin and the
Bear God" by Philip José Farmer and Christopher Paul Carey.
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Laura Givens |
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Re-creating
all extinct life on Earth |
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26
Sep
2011
It
is a very short short story, in less than two pages Farmer wrote down a
gem of a tale. That must be the reason why this story, "The King of the Beasts",
has been reprinted so many times. The story has had 52 publications in
eleven countries. Most recent publication in the US was in 2006 in the
collection The Best of Philip
José Farmer.
It took some time to collect and check most of the books and magazines
the story has been published in worldwide. I found several publications
I didn't know about before. One of the books, Tomorrow,
has still to be received. More details of the publication will be added
when I receive it. I haven't yet been able to buy the Japanese
publications, but found enough proof to include them on the new story
page.
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McKenna |
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Another
remembrance of Phil |
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20
Sep
2011
Every
year, for a very long period by now, German
publisher Heyne brings a
science fiction yearbook. It publishes for instance many essays about
the state of
the sf market in that particular year.
In the 2009 yearbook, Das
Science Fiction Jahr 2009, sixteen essays
about the theme Superheroes alone, articles about new trends and
authors, original interviews, information about art, comics, science,
and movies. Also lots of reviews, and news of the sf-scene in Germany,
the
USA and the UK complete this nearly 1600 pages thick, but still
handsome paperback.
Every year we have to say our farewells to people of the science
fiction field, like authors and editors. There are thirty obituaries in
this yearbook.
In a very loving piece Phil
Farmer is remembered by Hans Joachim Alpers. In his essay of nearly
eleven
pages he describes Farmer's life and work, his themes, series, stories,
prizes, and praises his fantastic ideas and adventures.
Alpers: "Im Gegensatz zu vielen neueren Autoren, denen ebenfalls Hugo-
oder Nebula-Ehren zuteil wurden und die oft wie Raketen aus dem Nichts
aufsteigen und genauso schnell wieder verschwinden, hat der Weltenbauer
Philip José Farmer Jahrzehnte hindurch die Science Fiction
mit seinem unerschöpflichen Phantasiereichtum und seiner
ausgeprägten Fähigkeit, prallstes Abenteuer jederzeit
bunt und frisch zu inszenieren, bereichert."
Alpers is convinced that Farmer will still be read in a hundred years
from now.
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Arndt Drechsler |
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The
Worlds of PJF 2 received! |
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13
Sep
2011
I
received my copy of the new anthology The Worlds of Philip
José Farmer 2: Of Dust and Soul on last Friday,
September 9th.
It was the same day that my oldest brother, Rob Nuninga, was buried. He
died earlier last week, alas, after a long period of sickness.
So you'll understand that I haven't been able to read this book, or
even parts of it. I only leafed through it. Hopefully soon I'll pick up
the book and start reading and making a new book page for it on the
site, like I did with the first volume
in this series.
If you want to know more about the contents of the book right now, go
to the Official
Philip José Farmer Home Page. Mike Croteau,
webmaster and editor of the book, describes the anthology with the
latest update.
Or go to the website of the
publisher, Meteor
House, where you can order a copy.
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Laura Givens |
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The
Worlds of Philip José Farmer 2 |
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4
Sep
2011
A
month later than expected, but according to the Official PJF Email
of September 3rd it has now been published, and shipped to the people
that preordered a copy. We are talking here about The Worlds of Philip
José Farmer 2: Of Dust and Soul.
This one looks as promising as the first volume did, with works by Phil
Farmer himself and by many others.
If you haven't ordered a copy yet, you can do that now with the
publisher, Meteor House, who has some special deals with it. Visit the
publishers website
for this.
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Laura Givens |
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Keep Your
Mouth Shut |
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1
Sep
2011
Another
story page has been redone, the one of the mainstream or crime story "Keep Your Mouth Shut".
Workers in a steel mill get bossed around by an old and mean foreman.
When an accident happens, triggered by the foreman, the workers start
thinking about how to get rid of the man. Only hypothetical of course...
The story was written about sixty years ago, but only published after
its rediscovery, in Farmerphile,
Issue number 6 (2006).
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Charles Berlin |
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Books |
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| Statistics |
These are the
numbers for the book pages in September.
 1740
publications
1147 different
covers
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