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News
& What's New - May 2013 |
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Italian
Lord Tyger |
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May 2013
Mondadori
published this month, May, a new Italian edition of Farmer's Lord
Tyger. It was published in the Urania Collezione series, No.
124.
This is the third Italian publication, the previous two were published
20 and 40 years ago.
The Urania series of books cannot be bought in the (online) bookshops,
only through the newsstands and kiosks in Italy. The series is treated
as a magazine, which it originally was.
I hope to get a copy soon for my collection.
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Franco
Brambilla |
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The
Scarlet Jaguar cover |
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15
May 2013
Here
is a "Work in Progress" photo of Mark Sparacio's (website and Facebook
page) cover painting for Win Scott Ekert's novel,
called The
Scarlet Jaguar.
The book, a sequel to The Evil in Pemberley House,
will be published by Meteor House
in July 2013. You can preorder your copy now! One could buy the book
for the cover alone (sorry Win...).
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Riverworld
War |
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8
May 2013
Farmer
had to cut in the manuscript of the fourth Riverworld novel, The
Magic Labyrinth, because it had become too long.
PJF: «I made great slashes in the novel. Result: the reader
of
the fourth and final book in the series will know that many of the
characters more or less prominent in the first three books had died
during the battle. But the reader won't know how they died or
why.»
How they died is told in "Riverworld
War", five left out chapters of the novel.
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Joan
Hanke Woods |
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Artist
correction |
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7
May 2013
Several
years ago I received information from someone working at the time at
Bantam Books about the name of an uncredited cover artist of the Bantam
edition of Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life.
(1975). The artist was Fred Pfeiffer.
Today I received a correction about the name from Win Scott Eckert.
He discovered that the cover of that edition actually had been done by Roger
Kastel. See the signed print of this cover, for sale at
Kastel's website.
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Roger
Kastel |
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Riverworld |
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5
May 2013
Most
of the Farmer fans will know how it all started with the Riverworld series.
This is for the few who don't.
Philip José Farmer wrote this: «The first of the
Riverworld series was actually written in 1952. This was a 150,000-word
novel originally titled Owe for the Flesh.
It was written in one month
so I could enter it in an international fantasy-science-fiction-award
contest. It won, but because of circumstances I won't go into here, it
was never published and I got only a fraction of the money due
me.»
Twelve years later, in 1964, he dusted off the unpublished novel and
tried to sell it to some publishers. With no luck. Until the editor of Galaxy magazine,
Fred Pohl, wanted to publish it in parts, as novelettes, in the sister
magazine Worlds of
Tomorrow.
In the same period as the two parts "Day
of the Great Shout" (January 1965) and "The Suicide Express"
(March 1966) were published, came the first of the so called side
stream stories, "Riverworld"
(January 1966).
There exists three versions of the novelette or novella "Riverworld".
The first two do not differ very much. The third version is nearly
three times as long as the first. With this version Farmer declared he
was
satisfied.
I'm satisfied with the restyling of this story page...
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McLane |
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| Added
Books |
One new addition on the book
pages this month.
 Lord Tyger
The Italian reissue from Mondadori, 2013.
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| Statistics |
These are the
numbers for the book pages this month.
1781
publications
1165 different
covers
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