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News
& What's New - March 2018 |
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Three
more letters by Phil |
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29 Mar
2018
For
some years now I'm adding information of the books and stories in my
collection to The
Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB). The
submissions happen when my time permits.
Of course I'm also adding the information on works by Philip
José Farmer.
But once in a while the ISFDB has information for me about Phil that is
not in my Bibliography yet. This time I found the information of three
more letters in fanzines by Farmer. They were unknown to me till now.
The letters appeared in:
The page with PJF's letters has been
changed.
Farmer's letter in SF
Commentary #25 is in fact an eight pages long essay,
called "A Letter
to Lem". Maybe in response to the essay by Stanislaw Lem in SF Commentary #22,
July 1971: "Sex in Science Fiction".
Lem and Farmer were not the best of friends. Farmer had been upset
about some highly critical things Lem had said about American sf in
general and Farmer’s books in particular: "the neanderthalish
views" in Farmer's work with sexual themes.
Stanislaw Lem responded on Farmer's essay with "A Letter to Mr. Farmer".
This was published in SF
Commentary #29, August 1972. On the cover of this 'Special
Violence Issue' it says: "LEM battles with FARMER".

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La
revue des lettres modernes: Jules Verne |
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19 Mar
2018
Sometimes
it takes an awfully long time to find an item I am looking for. That
also happened with a copy of the French literary magazine La revue des lettres modernes.
Issue 456-461 of July 1976 is completely devoted to Jules Verne's Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts
jours (Around
the World in Eighty Days).
In this paperback is also an essay by Jean Chesneaux: "Une lecture
extra-terrestre du Tour
du Monde: The
Other Log of Phileas Fogg, de P.J. Farmer".
This is about Farmer's sequel, The Other Log of Phileas Fogg,
to the above mentioned novel. And about the relation of Fogg
with the two alien races in this novel.

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The
Bronze Gazette 81 |
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15 Mar
2018
The editor, Chuck Welch, already
promised it earlier, that the fanzine The Bronze Gazette
would offer more essays about Farmer this year, the year of his 100th
Birthday.
Included in this issue is "Sons
of Savage: Doc Caliban", written by Arthur C. Sippo.
This is a reprint of Sippo's very interesting "Afterword" for the 2012
Titan Books edition of A Feast Unknown.
Sippo: «Feast
is not an aberration in his oeuvre, but rather typically Farmerian.
There are several things in Feast
that remain somewhat shocking even today.»

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Statistics |
These are the
numbers for the book pages this month.
1895
publications
1293 different
covers
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