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News
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Another
Moebius Trip (# 14) |
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16
Jul
2014
I
also found, see previous entry, a copy of the fanzine Moebius
Trip
Issue # 14, of July 1972.
This issue has a reprint of an article by Leslie A. Fiedler, Thanks for the Feast: Notes on
Philip
José Farmer. Moebius
Trip brings the original, uncut version, because with the
first publication in the book review section of the Los Angeles Times,
on April 23, 1972, Fiedler's article was somewhat emasculated, and the
title was also changed.
The uncut version was reprinted in The Book of Philip Jose Farmer.
Also in this issue of Moebius
Trip
is a letter
by Philip José Farmer, in which Phil writes some comments on
the
essay by Fiedler, and gives some additional information.

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William
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Moebius
Trip # 8 |
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14
Jul
2014
Recently
received a copy of the fanzine Moebius
Trip
Issue # 8, of March/April 1971. I had been searching for this for
years, like I did and still do with many of the other items with
material about Farmer.
The fanzine has an article, Philip
José Farmer: Out of Confusion, Surprise, by Ed
Conner, but his article is mainly a reprint of a newspaper article
that Jerry Klein wrote for the Peoria
Journal Star.
Fortuitously Terry Bibo mentions this and other newspaper articles by
Jerry Klein in her essay in the anthology The
Worlds of Philip José Farmer (4): Voyages to Strange Days.
In the same issue of Moebius
Trip
is a report of Pecon 2, where Farmer was a guest of honor. His "Guest
of Honor Speech" at that convention is also in the above mentioned
anthology. Coincidences?

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David
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Very
interesting anthology |
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11
Jul
2014
I
have read and indexed most of the entries in the new anthology The
Worlds of Philip José Farmer (4): Voyages to Strange Days.
It is again a very interesting collection of essays and stories, with
lots of information on PJF's work.
The essays in the section "Peoria-Colored Worlds" all show how little
Farmer was known in the US and especially in his hometown Peoria (IL).
When we, my wife and I, visited Peoria in 2002, we took a taxi from the
airport to our hotel. The taxi driver asked where we came from, because
he heard from our accents that we were foreigners. When he heard we
came from the Netherlands he asked what we did in Peoria, of all
places. "Going to visit one of your most famous townspeople", we said.
But he didn't know who Philip José Farmer was ("Never heard
of")
and he didn't understand why we traveled that far to visit the man, who
wasn't even a member of our family. Nearly the same response was given
at the hotel.
I get these responses in my hometown whenever I mention Phil's name,
but hadn't expected it in Peoria! Of all places!
Christopher Paul Carey gives a chronology in which to read the Father John Carmody and
the related Detective Raspold stories,, "Strange
Compulsion" and "Some
Fabulous Yonder".
His chronology includes the stories "The Goddess Equation" by Carey
himself, and "Ite, Misse Est" by Paul Spiteri. Both these stories are
included in the anthology.
There is a long overdue reprint of Farmer's "Moth and Rust", the
original novella that was rewritten and expanded into the novel A
Woman a Day. Art Sippo wrote a very interesting essay about
the changes Phil made with the rewrite, not all for the better.

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Laura
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