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News
& What's New - April 2012 |
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The next
Titan Books reissue (2) |
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26
Apr
2012
I
received today an e-mail from Christopher Paul Carey as well as one
from Win Scott Eckert. Both to assure me that Titan Books has not (yet)
acquired the rights to publish Flight
to Opar and The
Song of Kwasin.
Titan Books might eventually publish them, depending on how well the
first books in the series are selling. But nothing is planned for the
foreseeable future.
Carey: «So right now, and for quite some time, the only way
anyone is
going to be able to read The
Song of Kwasin is in the Gods of Opar omnibus
published by Subterranean Press.»
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Bob Eggleton |
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The next
Titan Books reissue |
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26
Apr
2012
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Clyde Caldwell |
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A new
tale of Lost
Khokarsa: Exiles of Kho |
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26
Apr
2012
Christopher
Paul Carey has written a third story in the Opar / Khokarsa series, Exiles of Kho. The
book will be published later this year, late summer/early fall, by Meteor
House.
The publisher: «This limited edition novella will be signed
by the
author, Christopher Paul Carey, coauthor with Philip José
Farmer of the third novel in the Khokarsa series. The print run will be
determined by the number of preorders we receive by June 30, 2012. A
very limited number of copies beyond the preorders will be
printed.»
If you haven't already, go to the site of Meteor
House now and preorder
your copy for US$ 15.00 plus shipping.
You know –if you have read the other Khokarsa stories by
Carey– that you're in for a
very exiting treat with this new novella!
Christopher Paul Carey published on his blog a ´Khokarsa
Series Checklist´ for the suggested reading order
of all Opar / Khokarsa tales by Farmer and him.
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Mike Hoffman |
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One Down,
One to Go |
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14
Apr
2012
Philip
José Farmer's look on a bleak future. What to do with people
on
welfare? Offer them sterilization in exchange for something.
"One Down, One to Go"
is a great but moody story.
From the foreword in Visions
of Wonder:
«...throughout the last five decades he has produced powerful
short
stories that are among the finest in all SF. "One Down, One to Go" is a
recent example.»
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Alex Schomburg |
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Titan
Books reissues |
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Apr
2012
Win
Scott Eckert posted new entries on his blog about
the reissues of Farmer's books from Titan Books.
Post
#4 revealed the cover of A Feast Unknown, scheduled
to appear in October 2012.
Post
#5 announced the reissue of Farmer's The
Wind Whales of Ishmael. This one will appear in March 2013.
Win: «First published in 1971, Farmer's masterful SF sequel
to Herman
Melville's Moby-Dick
has not seen an English edition in over 30 years.»
See also Forthcoming
Books.
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Kilgore
Trout had an obscure life |
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9
Apr
2012
Philip
José Farmer wrote four fictional
biographies in the 1970s. The best known of these are Tarzan
Alive (1972) and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life
(1973). Both were published in book format.
But Farmer also wrote two shorter fictional biographies. The first of
his biographies is "The
Obscure Life and Hard Times of Kilgore Trout" (1971),
published in the fanzine Moebius
Trip #11.
Kilgore Trout is a character in many of the novels by Kurt Vonnegut,
Jr. But at the time of Phil Farmer writing the biography, which he
based mainly on Vonnegut's novels, so far only two with Kilgore Trout
had been published: God
Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965) and Slaughterhouse Five
(1969).
After the publication in the fanzine Moebius Trip #11 a
professional magazine was asked to publish it.
Farmer in his introduction: «I suggested to the editor of Esquire that he
might want to publish this 'life.' Regretfully, he rejected the idea.
He did not think that Kilgore
Trout was as well-know as Tarzan.»
Till now I had this piece wrongly on one of the Non Fiction
pages. But it is definitely fiction, and so it now has its own Short Fiction page.
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William Rotsler |
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More news
about Titan Books editions |
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2
Apr
2012
Win
Scott Eckert has a new
post (post #3) on his blog about the forthcoming Titan
reissues of some of Philip
José Farmer's books.
Win announces the bonus materials, a new introduction by Joe Lansdale
and a foreword by Paul Spiteri, for the forthcoming Lord
Tyger.
Win: «Joe R. Lansdale is eminently suited to contribute a new
introduction to this Burroughsian-flavored novel, as he is one of the
few (along with Philip José Farmer himself!) to write an
authorized Tarzan novel. And Paul Spiteri, a Farmerian expert and the
editor of the critically acclaimed Farmer collection Pearls
from Peoria (Subterranean Press) has written a fine
foreword.»
Also on Win's blog the cover of the new Titan Books edition of Lord
of the Trees, on the cover titled as The Lord of the Trees.
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