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News
& What's New - January 2013 |
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A long
time search |
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Jan 2013
More
than thirty years I have been looking for an issue of the Popular Music And Science
Fiction Journal. I didn't know if it was a British
magazine or a fanzine, but I did know that it had a piece about Philip
José Farmer.
I saw an announcement of this title in a catalog of a British book
dealer back in 1979. I ordered a copy, but had no luck. I
never
received it.
In the past thirty years I have searched many, many times for a copy,
but never found anything about the fanzine. I came to the conclusion
that it must have been only an announcement back then and that not one
issue ever had been published.
But an issue of the Popular
Music And Science Fiction Journal
for sale on eBay proved me wrong. This one came from the collection of
Forrest J Ackerman. The ad said that it was issue No. 2.
The second issue has a bibliography
of the books and short fiction of Phil. It is an updated bibliography
from the first issue: "...the Farmer bibliography published in issue
one was vastly incomplete...". There were also many mistakes in the
first one, according to the corrections.
Next to the bibliography there are some reviews of Farmer's books and
an item in the news column, "Prolific Phil", about new publications and
re-issues of his work.
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Jim Cook |
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Riders on
place 29 |
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10
Jan 2013
Locus
Online
finished the counting of the votes for a set of polls for the best
science fiction and fantasy novels and short fiction of the 20th and
21st centuries, and published the final results online.
Philip José Farmer's Hugo Award winning novella "Riders of the Purple Wage"
(1967) reached place 29 with 19 votes (248 points) in the 20th and 21st All-Centuries Poll.
This is the only Farmer story that made it into the poll. Earlier on,
see the entry of December 23, 2012, we mentioned that Farmer's novel To
Your Scattered Bodies Go also got a place in the poll.
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Diane & Leo Dillon |
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Two book
additions |
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10
Jan 2013
An
undated British eighth printing of The Magic Labyrinth was
found. This one was unknown to me till now.
Also unknown was a Canadian edition of Flesh,
with booknumber Y6767 (1975). The US edition states to be the fifth
printing. The exactly the same looking Canadian edition, states to be
the third printing. It is actually the third Canadian printing of the
book, but the publisher Signet had a very strange way of counting the
printings.
There are now two Canadian publications of Flesh
that are both claiming to be the third printing, but with different
book numbers and publication data. See the book page for more details.
Both finds were done by Fred Fisher. Thanks Fred!
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Melvyn Grant |
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| Added
Books |
Two new additions on the book
pages this month.
 Flesh
A discovered Canadian printing from Signet, 1975.
The Magic Labyrinth
The eight printing from Grafton Books, date unknown.
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| Statistics |
These are the
numbers for the book pages this month.
1776
publications
1162 different
covers
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