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News
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Scattered
Bodies |
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29
Sep
2014
I
still don't have a copy of the first Israeli edition, published in
1981, of To Your Scattered Bodies Go.
The Israeli websites with their Hebrew characters are very frustrating
for me to understand, to try to order one or more books. Even if I use
the translation of the webpage in the browser.
But Fred Fischer (Houston, USA) was able to buy a copy on Ebay. He sent
me the scan of the cover, that was still missing in the bibliography.
He needs some time to decipher the publication dates of the book.
Fred also added information on the 1986 Book Club Edition of this
title, which does have a date code: Q05. And I discovered another
printing of the same Book Club Edition, the one published in January
1981, with date code L03.
And finally, Fred has sent me a link to the website Conceptual Fiction,
which has an
essay by Ted Gioia about To
Your Scattered Bodies Go. Interesting reading!

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Baycon,
the 26th World SF Convention |
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29
Sep
2014
Philip
José Farmer was the Guest of Honor at Baycon, the 26th World
Science Fiction Convention, in August 1968.
Because of this a short anonymous biography about
Phil appeared in Baycon
Progress Report
#2. Last year a copy of this progress report was bought by Mich West
(Australia), who sent me scans of the cover and the biography. I had
forgotten to include this information in the Bibliography, till now.
In the Baycon Program
Book are two articles about Phil, a profile by Theodore Sturgeon
and a profile by Poul
Anderson. I found these profiles very moving, especially the
one by Sturgeon.
The Baycon Program Book
was found and then donated to me by Fred Fischer (Houston, USA). I
received the chapbook last week.
Being the Guest of Honor, Farmer made a speech at the Baycon banquet,
called "Reap".
The speech was also published, but not by Baycon.
Many thanks to Mich West for the scans and to Fred Fischer for the
program book!

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Colin
Cameron

Jack
Gaughan |
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More
Canadians |
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18
Sep
2014
I
am a lucky
man to have some other people looking and searching for items, that are
missing from my Farmer collection. Several times I do not even know
these items exist.
Like the book that William Taylor (Canada) found this time. A Canadian
edition of Dark is the Sun.
The first paperback edition by Ballantine Books/Del Rey was at the same
time published in Canada. Both editions have the same data, but for the
price and the printing statement.
Taylor: "I never thought to check for a CDN before. Of course, that was
because the grand Vizier of Farmerdom hadn't listed one!!!!"
Guilty as charged! But I have corrected this...
Double thanks Bill!

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Darrell
K. Sweet |
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Nobody's
Perfect (not even me) |
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11
Sep
2014
Some
time ago Fred Fischer (Houston, USA) found two different states of the
Science Fiction Book Club edition of The Ultimate Dracula
than the one I have and had mentioned in the bibliography.
This collection contains Farmer's gothic horror story "Nobody's Perfect".
The difference between the three states of the hardcover
consists of the statement in two of them to be 'A Dell Trade Paperback'
— like the original Dell publication — and
two give an ISBN, the
same as the one of the original Dell publication.
Fred must be a geek as I am about details of different printings. How
else could he have found these books?
But then again, nobody's perfect... :-)
Both editions have been added on the story
page.
Great find Fred, thanks!

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Bruce
Jensen |
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Added
Books |
Two new additions on the
book
pages this month.
Dark is the Sun
The Canadian paperback printing from Ballantine Books /Del Rey, 1980.
To
Your Scattered Bodies Go
The reprinted Book Club Edition of January 1981.
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Statistics |
These are the
numbers for the book pages this month.
1815
publications
1186 different
covers
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