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News
& What's New - April 2020 |
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A
Rough Knight for the Queen |
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29 Apr
2020
Meteor
House announced another book for release this year, A Rough Knight for the Queen,
a non-fiction work:
Trade paperback |
«Philip José Farmer fans know that he was
fascinated with 19th
century explorer and author Sir Richard Francis Burton. Farmer made
Burton the protagonist of the Hugo winning novel, To Your Scattered Bodies Go,
the first book in the Riverworld series. In Gods of Riverworld,
the
final book in the series, Peter Jairus Frigate (Farmer’s
fictional
stand in) said that he had written a biography of Richard Burton...
Now
Meteor House brings you Farmer’s 26,000 word biography of
Burton in
both an affordable trade paperback and in a signed limited hardcover.
Both editions feature introductory material by Mick Walton (author of Sir Richard Burton and His Circle),
Mark Hodder (author of the Burton
and Swinburne novels) and Paul Spiteri (editor of Pearls from Peoria).
The hardcover limited edition will be signed by Walton, Hodder,
Spiteri, and cover artist Charles Berlin.».
The price of the
trade paperback is $15, and of the signed limited edition hardcover $40.
The
print run of the hardcover limited edition will be determined by the
number of preorders. This means the majority of hardcovers will be sold
before the book is even printed, so preorder
your copy today! |
Signed limited
hardcover |
The books will be released in August 2020.
The biography "A
Rough Knight for the Queen" was only once published before,
in the collection Pearls from Peoria (2006).
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Erotic
Gas of Dream Makers |
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19 Apr
2020
 On
at least two occasions in the past Philip José Farmer and
Charles Platt met each other. In May 1979, forty-one years ago, Platt
interviewed Farmer. This interview, simply titled "Philip José Farmer",
and a lot of others Platt had conducted, were published in the US by
Berkley Books as Dream
Makers (1980). In the same year it was published
in the UK by Savoy Books as Who
Writes Science Fiction?
The book was translated in German in 1982. It got published in a
revised hardcover edition in the UK by Xanadu (1986) and in the US by
Unger (1987).
I just discovered that it also was republished in the US by The
Stairway Press in April 2014 as trade paperback and ebook.
And in December 2017 as ebook by Gateway in the UK. Originally
published in two volumes, the profiles collected in the Gateway ebook
have been specially updated with afterwords written in 2017.
 But
this is not the only publication from Charles Platt, with a
contribution by Philip José Farmer, that UK publisher
Gateway
released as ebook. Platt wrote in 1969 a pornographic novel, The Gas,
that was originally intended for publication by Essex House, but they
stopped. It was then published in the US by Ophelia Press (1970) and
later by Loompanics Unlimited (1995).
Publisher Savoy Books wanted to release it in 1980 in the UK. Farmer
wrote a "Foreword"
for this edition. Alas most of the print run of this edition was
destroyed by the authorities.
in December 2017 the book was released as ebook by Gateway. Including
Farmer's foreword. In a complete new "Introduction: Repulsive and
Unpublishable" Charles Platt describes all the problems this book has
had in the US and the UK before and after it got published.
The Gas
was
translated into German and published three times. Two of the
publications, both with Farmer's foreword, are limited editions only,
with a signature by Platt. It is the only translation I know of.
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The
Captain's Daughter in Japan |
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15 Apr
2020
 From
Amazon.jp is an anthology on its way to me, 最初の接触 (First Contact).
It was published by Hayakawa in May 2019 and includes seven stories by
Murray Leinster, John Wyndham, James Blish, James White, Damon Knight,
Poul Anderson, and by Philip José Farmer.
Phil Farmer's story is "キャプテン
の娘" ("The Captain's
Daughter" a.k.a. "Strange Compulsion"), which was published
before in September 1968 in the Japanese S-F Magazine.
 While
I was sniffing online at Japanese web pages I also found and bought the
first four books in The
World of Tiers series. Three of them are first editions that
were already known in the Bibliography. One of them, 階
層宇宙の創造者 (The Maker of Universes),
is an undated later yet unknown printing. Maybe a second printing, with
a different price (¥ 320).
And finally I bought the Japanese first printing of The
Fabulous Riverboat (わが夢のリバーボート). It was
already known on these pages.
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The
Adventure of the Peerless Peer in Iran |
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2 Apr
2020
In
the Iran year 1397 released publisher Drop a Persian translation of The
Adventure of the Peerless Peer, with the title:
شرلوک
هولمز و نجیب زاده ی بی همتا.
This title translates like: Sherlock
Holmes and the Unmatched Gentleman. The transliteration of
the Persian title isn't easy to speak out loud: Shrlwk Hwlmz w njyb zadh y by hmta.
According to our calendar the book was
published in December 2018. The price of 140,000 real looks extreme,
but it is only about $3.50. The novella was published as written by
John H. Watson.
See this Iran
bookpage.
With this first Persian translation Farmer's books now have been
translated in 32 countries, witch brings the total number of countries
that
released Farmer's work —including the US, UK, Canada and
Australia—
to 36.
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| Statistics |
These are the
numbers for the book pages this month.
 1927
publications
1306 different
covers
There are less covers than publications due to the reprints
with the same cover, and due to omnibuses.
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