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News
& What's New - May 2019 |
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Four
more books from France |
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28 May
2019
Online
I
discovered the following publications, and ordered them. Three covers
for four books? Of the first I found two printings, both from 1975,
with the same splashing cover.
La
jungle nue (A Feast Unknown)
The first publication of this edition was in April 1974. But, as it
turned out after nearly forty-five years, was reprinted twice:
- Champ Libre, January 1975, 2nd printing,
- Champ Libre, October 1975, 3rd printing.
Les
amants étrangers (The
Lovers)
The first printing of this book was published in January 2007, and it
was reprinted with the same cover:
- Gallimard, July 2007, 2nd printing.
Le
bateau fabuleux (The Fabulous Riverboat)
The publisher keeps this novel in print:
- Le Livre de Poche, November 2018, 10th printing.
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Nice
photo of the Farmers |
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27 May
2019
I
was very much surprised some days ago to receive an envelop with a
photo of Philip José Farmer and his wife, Bette Farmer. The
photo is signed by both on the back. There is no information about the
photographer, or the reason why, where, or when this picture was made.
It is
not dated, but my guess is —based on comparing it with other
photos of the two— that it is from about 1993.
The sender of the photo, Fred Fischer (US), neither has any information
about the picture. He received it a while back from someone who sold
him a Farmer book online.
Many thanks for this nice photo Fred!
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Farmer
Sales on U.S. EBAY |
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20 May
2019
From
Fred
Fischer (US) I received an e-mail with a link to a web page on 'Euro
Sports Network', with a blog entry of May 1, 2019 called: "Voices Against Time, Ebay
Nationalism Part 3". The blog was written by GithYankee.
Fred writes: «My notion is that the author of the chart is
trying
to use it as an example of proof that the new movement towards
diversity in science fiction authorship is doomed. I guess
this
argument is part of the brouhaha that the Hugo Awards or perhaps their
nominations and the nomination process were embroiled in a few years
ago. Maybe it continues?»
The chart shows the Pringle Science Fiction 100 list of bestselling
authors. Given are the names, ethnicity, orientation, gender, top 10
sales, and finally 'Last 90 days units'.
I'm not interested in the diversity issue of this blog. That's why I
only took part of the chart with the first 16 names. The 16th is that
of Farmer.
Author |
Top
10 Sales |
Last
90 days units |
Herbert, Frank |
$11,796.00 |
981 |
Orwell, George |
$7,941.00 |
1368 |
Bradbury, Ray |
$7,410.00 |
1374 |
Wolfe, Gene |
$7,122.00 |
199 |
Moorcock, Michael |
$5,612.00 |
421 |
Asimov, Isaac |
$5,068.00 |
1304 |
Dick, Philip K. |
$4,796.00 |
980 |
Heinlein, Robert |
$4,645.00 |
681 |
Vonnegut, Kurt |
$3,917.00 |
1039 |
Clarke, Arthur |
$3,261.00 |
545 |
Burgess, Anthony |
$3,037.00 |
203 |
Burroughs, William S. |
$2,692.00 |
288 |
Le Guin, Ursula |
$2,389.00 |
407 |
Leiber, Fritz |
$1,994.00 |
191 |
Gibson, William |
$1,931.00 |
229 |
Farmer, Philip Jose |
$1,540.00 |
183 |
The only reason to show this chart is to give you an idea how PJF is
doing in comparison with the other authors of the Pringle Science
Fiction 100 list.
If you are interested in the blog or the complete chart follow this link.

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Statistics |
These are the
numbers for the book pages this month.
1914
publications
1301 different
covers
There are less covers than publications due to the reprints with the same cover, and due to omnibuses.
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