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News
& What's New - November 2011 |
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Interview
with Christopher Paul Carey |
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30
Nov
2011
Readers
had been asking Farmer for years when he would write more novels
in the Opar series. Only two novels were written and published in the
mid-1970s by DAW, Hadon of Ancient Opar and
Flight to Opar. A third,
and final novel, Kwasin
of Opar, was announced, but never published.
Several years ago the unfinished manuscript of the third novel was
found in Phil's
archives.
Christopher Paul Carey read and studied it, and received permission
from Philip José
Farmer to finally finish the third novel in the Opar / Khokarsa series.
The finalized novel –now called The Song of Kwasin–
got Farmer's blessing,
he enjoyed it, and was put on the market.
Recently Subterranean
Press announced the publication of the novel, together with
the first two novels in the series, in an omnibus, Gods of Opar: Tales of Lost
Khokarsa. It is scheduled for publication in April 2012.
We had an interview with the co-author of The Song of Kwasin,
Christopher Paul Carey. Read
the interview.
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Covers of
new Titan Books editions |
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23
Nov
2011
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Yesterday
Win Scott Eckert announced on his blog the
new covers of the three Titan Books editions of Phil Farmer's:
- The
Other Log of Phileas Fogg
- Time's
Last Gift
- Lord
Tyger.
The covers look very attractive, with a nice layout. Two of the books
are labeled as 'A Wold Newton Novel'. This was also done with the
publication of The Peerless Peer.
But on that book it was mentioned in small letters on the back cover,
The new books have the Wold Newton label rather prominent on the cover.
According to Win's blog we might see more Titan Books editions of
Farmer's backlist.
We have to thank Wold Newton expert Win Scott Eckert for his continuous
effort of exploring, explaining and clarifying the Wold Newton Universe
(WNU) in his publications.
Check his Wold
Newton Universe website, and Win's blog
for more information and WNU publications.
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The Long
Warpath |
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15
Nov
2011
The
novel Cache
from Outer Space (1962) was first published as one half of an
Ace Double book.
The novel was slightly rewritten by Philip José Farmer and
published again by Tor Books in 1981, with the title The
Long Warpath.
Tor Books included the rewritten novel in a collection, The
Cache, together with two stories. Because of the inclusion in
a collection I had put The Long
Warpath on the Short Fiction pages. This has now been
corrected, the novel is definitely not short fiction.
Paul Spiteri about the
novel: "Although perhaps lacking in some of Phil's grand
imaginative ideas it is nonetheless a good read."
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Eric Ladd |
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Light-Hogs
created the universe |
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12
Nov
2011
The
very short novel excerpt "The
Light-Hog Incident" is yet another proof of Farmer's
great ideas for a funny story: "...But the kicker was that Boone
discovers that the light-hogs are in fact, responsible for the
existence of galaxies or, indeed, for all matter in the universe... The
unstated premise of the story was that the universe was created from
hog shit..."
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Shannon
Robicheaux |
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Second
story in Playboy |
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9
Nov
2011
The
December 1977 issue of Playboy
published Farmer´s erotic story "The
Henry Miller Dawn Patrol". The editors of the
magazine liked his writing and so asked Farmer for another story. The
second story appeared one and a half year later, in the July 1979 issue
of Playboy.
From the Playboy
editorial: "After you've read the Good
News [the article Good
News for the Practicing Paranoid
in the same issue], you'll no doubt be eager to escape, and there's no
better way than with a strong dose of science fiction, Philip
José Farmer style. Illustrated by Karl Wirsum, it's called The Leaser of Two Evils
and, in its own peculiar way, it's about the greatest of escapes, sex."
The story page of "The Leaser
of Two Evils", which by the way is not science fiction, has
been redone.
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Tom Staebler |
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SFBC
hardcover of Strange Relations |
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4
Nov
2011
In
2006 Baen published an omnibus, Strange Relations, with
the novels The Lovers and Flesh,
and with the story collection Strange Relations.
The omnibus was published as a trade paperback and reprinted in a mass
market paperback in 2008.
Now, five years after the first publication, SFBC
(Science Fiction Book Club) publishes a hardcover edition of the
omnibus. The
book came out last month, October, and costs US$ 12.99, for members of
the Book Club only.
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Clyde Caldwell |
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German
Fleisch |
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2
Nov
2011
My
good friend Willem Hettinga found a copy of the German omnibus Fleisch
in a local second hand bookshop. There are at least eight printings of
this book, but I still miss the information on some of them. Willem
found the sixth printing for me.
The omnibus was added on the book page, and also on the book pages of
the included novels, The Image of the Beast, Blown,
and Flesh.
Many thanks Willem!
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Boris Vallejo |
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Science
Fiction Gems, Volume Two |
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2
Nov
2011
The
story "How Deep the Grooves"
(1963) was reprinted twice this year. First in the collection Up
the Bright River and now again in the anthology Science Fiction Gems,
Volume Two.
The book is published by Armchair Fiction.
The lay-out of their books look a lot like the old Ace Doubles. The
book numbering looks the same too, with D-, C-, G- and M-series. The
resemblance stops there, the Armchair books are "Deluxe
Paperback
Editions".
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Ed Emsh |
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Books |
Eight publications, with two
omnibuses, were added on the book pages in November.
 Blown
The German translation in the omnibus Fleisch, 1995.
Fleisch
The sixth printing of the German omnibus, 1995.
Flesh
Included in the SFBC edition of the omnibus Strange Relations,
2011.
Flesh
The German translation in the omnibus Fleisch, 1995.
The
Image of the Beast
The German translation in the omnibus Fleisch, 1995.
The
Lovers
Included in the SFBC edition of the omnibus Strange Relations,
2011.
Strange
Relations
The hardcover edition of the omnibus by Baen (SFBC), 2011.
Strange
Relations
Included in the SFBC edition of the omnibus Strange Relations,
2011.
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| Statistics |
These are the
numbers for the book pages in November.
1748
publications
1148 different
covers
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