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News
& What's New - April 2013 |
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More
new Doc Savage editions |
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Apr 2013
There
is more news to add to the previous entry about the upcoming
new edition of Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life.
In a joint publishing venture, not only is Meteor
House publishing the deluxe hardcover edition of Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life,
but Altus
Press is publishing the trade edition and eBook. Great news
also!
Read the Press
Release from Altus Press.
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Walter
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New
books
from Meteor House! |
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Apr 2013
This
summer we we will see at least two new books from Meteor House.
Michael Croteau, the publisher, and also the webmaster of The Official PJF Web Page,
announced The Scarlet
Jaguar and Doc Savage: His Apocalytic Life.
The
Scarlet Jaguar by Win Scott Eckert
is a new Patricia Wildman adventure, a sequel to The
Evil in Pemberley House.
From the announcement: «When we last saw Patricia Wildman,
daughter of Doc Wildman, the bronze champion of justice, six months had
passed since the main events of The
Evil in Pemberley House.
She and her associate Parker, an ex-Scotland Yard Inspector, had set up
Empire State Investigations at her Pemberley House estate—and
she
just received a mysterious phone call from her supposedly late father.
. .»
Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life
will be published in a newly revised Deluxe Hardcover Edition.
From the announcement: «...the newly revised edition of Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life
also features a brand new foreword by Farmer and pulp expert Win Scott
Eckert, updates to the “List of Doc Savage Stories”
including the latest novels, and rare material culled from Mr.
Farmer’s notes.
The deluxe hardcover edition arrives just in time for Doc’s
80th
anniversary, and features tributes by other Farmer and Doc experts,
including John Allen Small, Keith Howell, Rick Lai, Art Sippo,
Christopher Paul Carey, and current Doc Savage writer Will Murray, as
well as other bonus materials not seen in prior editions...»
Go to the site of Meteor House
to read more about these books or to preorder them The books will be
published in July 2013.
I'm curious if Meteor House will publish also another edition of The
Worlds of Philip José Farmer this
summer.
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The
final cover
sketch for The Scarlet Jaguar,
by Mark Sparacio |
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Another
Canadian one |
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22
Apr 2013
We
are still discovering previously unknown, and often hard to find,
Canadian printings or editions of books by Philip José
Farmer.
This time Fred Fischer (Houston, TX, USA) discovered a Canadian first
printing of Venus on the Half-Shell
from publisher Dell (February 1975).
I haven't been able to find a copy for my collection yet.
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Gadino |
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Psychological
horror story |
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14
Apr 2013
Philip
José Farmer started his career as a writer with a non
science fiction story, "O'Brien
and Obrenov" (1946). It is one of five psychological tales by
Phil. He was not successful with these stories. The second of these, "The Blind Rowers",
was published in 1967, the other three stayed unpublished in Phil's
archives, till one of them, "The
Good of the Land", was published in 2002.
All five of the psychological tales were included in the special
collection Pearls from Peoria (2006).
The other two stories are "Hunter’s
Moon" and "The Rise
Gotten".
In "The Rise Gotten" a man is humiliated one time too much by his long
time wife, who was very irrational. The story tells in full horrific
detail where that can lead to...
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Keith
Howell
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Charles Berlin |
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Farmer
in
The Best From Playboy |
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Apr 2013
Two
stories of Philip José Farmer were originally published in
the magazine Playboy,
"The Henry
Miller Dawn Patrol" in December 1977 and "The Leaser of Two Evils"
in July 1979.
"The Henry
Miller Dawn Patrol" was very much appreciated by the readers
of Playboy,
according to the comments the magazine received. The story even won the
Annual
Playboy Editorial Award in 1978.
That the story was reprinted in 1982 in The Best From Playboy,
Number Nine, was unknown till now.
Today I received a donated copy of the magazine from Fred Fischer
(Houston, TX, USA), with some kind words. Many thanks Fred!
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Books |
One new addition on the book
pages this month.
 Venus
on the Half-Shell
The Canadian first printing from Dell, 1975.
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| Statistics |
These are the
numbers for the book pages this month.
1780
publications
1164 different
covers
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