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News
& What's New - December 2012 |
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Farmer is
going down again! |
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Dec 2012
In
my post of November 19th I brought the news that Locus Online
hosted the 20th and 21st
All-Centuries Poll during the month November.
The results
of the novels are published online now. Philip
José Farmer is still in the top 50 of the 20th Century
All-Time Novels. His novel To Your Scattered Bodies Go
reached place 43 in the final list, with 25 votes (356 points).
In the Locus All-Time
Poll 1975 this novel reached the 17th place. In the Locus All-Time Poll 1987
the novel dropped to place 27, and this time even more to place 43.
The Poll results of the short fiction are not yet published.
Hopefully there will be a Farmer story in the lists.
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Bob Eggleton |
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Third
printing of Die Liebenden |
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12
Dec 2012
I
found an edition of Farmer's books today in a local second hands
bookshop.
This one was unknown in the bibliography, and it was also missing in my
collection.
Such a find does not happen often anymore, maybe once every two or
three years.
Nearly all the books I'm looking for are ordered on the internet.
I took the book from the shelve, and nearly put it back because I knew
I already had two printings of this German edition of The
Lovers (Die
Liebenden). I checked the book inside and discovered it to
be the third printing. Till now I was completely unaware of a third
printing.
This publication has been added on the book
page.
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Frank Kelly
Freas |
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Queen of
the Deep |
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9
Dec 2012
The
title "Queen of the Deep"
has been used only once, with the first publication of this story in
"The Complete Man's Magazine" Argosy,
of March 1954. Every later publication, all 32 of them, has the story
with the title "Son'.
Even every foreign translation used this title.
That first publication is also the only solo publication of this story.
All the later publications of it are in the collection Strange
Relations.
"Queen of the Deep" is one of Phil Farmer's psychological stories. It
was and is not one of his best stories in this genre.
The
two page illustration by James Bingham in Argosy.
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Frank McCarthy |
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Polish
serial publication of first Riverworld novel |
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4
Dec 2012
The
Polish science fiction magazine Fantasyka
published Philip José Farmer's novel To
Your Scattered Bodies Go in translation as Gdzie wasze ciała porzucone.
The novel was brought as a serial publication in four issues of the
magazine, with paper inserts. These could be folded to book
format, half the magazine format. It was published in the
issues of April (# 79), May, (# 80), June (# 81) and July (# 82) of the
year 1989.
Part of this information was already included in the bibliography. But
I did not have the four magazines, so could not verify the data or give
the complete and correct info.
Recently I received three of the four magazines as a gift from Fred
Fisher (Houston, Texas, US), a fellow Farmer collector. Only issue # 81
was missing, but I found –knowing now what to look
for– a copy of it for sale on the internet (yet to receive).
The information of this publication is now completed, including the
covers of the four magazines and of the novel. That cover was printed
on the back of Fantastyka,
issue #82.
Thanks for the gift Fred!
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Wojtek Siudmak |
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Books |
One new addition on the book
pages this month.
 The
Lovers
The third German printing (Die
Liebenden) from Knaur, 1980.
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| Statistics |
These are the
numbers for the book pages this month.
1774
publications
1162 different
covers
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