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Up from the
Bottomless Pit and Other Stories |
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Edited by |
Christopher Paul Carey |
Collection
with a novel, stories and non fiction.
15 items: Up from the
Bottomless Pit (novel), "That Great Spanish
Author, Ernesto", "The
Essence of the Poison", "Keep
Your Mouth Shut", "The
Face that Launched a Thousand Eggs", "The Doll Game", "The Rebels Unthawed",
"The
Frames", "The
Light-Hog Incident" (novel fragment), "The
Unnaturals", "A
Spy in the U.S. of Gonococcia", "A Peoria Night", "I Still
Live" (speech), "Hayy
ibn Yaqzam by Abu ibn Tufayl: An Arabic
Mowgli" (essay) and "Why
Do I Write?" (speech).
There is an extra piece in the lettered edition: "The Obscure Life
and Hard Times of Kilgore Trout: A Skirmish in Biography".
The novel Up from the Bottomless Pit,
originally written and announced
for publication in 1975 with the title The Dragon's Breath,
has been published in ten parts in the fanzine Farmerphile. and as solo novel in trade paperback (2020).
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COVER
TEXT:
Up
from the Bottomless Pit and Other Stories is the ultimate
collection for Philip José Farmer fans, including 140,000
words (over 375 pages) of very obscure, never-before-collected short
stories, a novel beginning, non-fiction, and a complete novel as well.
All of these pieces have only seen publication in Farmerphile, a
fanzine with a regular circulation well under two hundred copies per
issue. Subterranean Press is proud to give these newly discovered gems
a more permanent home, in an edition specifically geared toward Phil's
most ardent fans. In addition to the rarities, there are copious
introductions and numerous black and white illustrations.
Philip José Farmer: maker of universes and chronicler of
fantastic adventures, legendary Hugo Award winner and Nebula Grand
Master... Today few realize that Farmer was writing literary fiction
long before he set the science fiction world afire with his
groundbreaking "The Lovers." Up
from the Bottomless Pit and Other Stories collects these
little known treasures, along with other fantastical tales--all making
their first appearance here in book form.
Sure to excite readers of science fiction everywhere is the inclusion
of Farmer's "lost" novel of the ultimate ecological nightmare. Set in
an alternate past circa the 1970s, Up
from the Bottomless Pit tells of a world so ravenous in
its desire for oil that it has thrown caution to the wind. Using an
experimental laser drill, human-kind burns a hole through the ocean
floor only to unleash a deadly torrent that threatens to wipe out all
life on the planet.
With its first-time collection of a lost novel, ultra-rare works, tales
of science fiction and fantasy, Up
from the Bottomless Pit and Other Stories presents a
compelling new look at one of speculative fiction's most beloved
literary giants.
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PUBLICATION
HISTORY
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FIRST PUBLICATION
Burton,
MI: Subterranean Press
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ISBN 978-1-59606-128-6
hardcover (23,5×16cm)
07/2007
373
$ 125.00
Keith Howell and Charles Berlin
Limited edition of two hundred and fifty numbered copies, signed by
Philip José Farmer, in a slipcase. 'Signed Limited First
Edition' stated on the copyright page. Light blue cloth boards
with silver lettering on the spine. The slipcase is covered with black
cloth. With an introduction, "Philip
José
Farmer: On the
Road to the Emerald City", and story introductions by
Christopher Paul
Carey, a story introduction
by Win Scott Eckert, and interior
illustrations by Jason Robert Bell, Charles Berlin, Susan Gillis, Keith
Howell, Karl Kauffman, and Shannon Robicheaux. |
Keith Howell
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Charles Berlin
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Burton,
MI: Subterranean Press
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ISBN 978-1-59606-128-6
hardcover (23,5×16cm)
10/2007
385
$ 300.00
Keith Howell and Charles Berlin
Limited edition of twenty-six lettered copies, signed by Philip
José Farmer, in a special traycase. 'Signed Limited First
Edition' stated on the copyright page. White leather boards
with silver lettering on the spine. The traycase is with dark blue and
black leather and silver lettering on the spine, with a silver
illustration on the cover. The contents page is the same as
in the numbered edition, and so does not show the extra piece in this
collection, the fictional biography "The Obscure Life
and Hard Times of Kilgore Trout: A Skirmish in Biography".
With an introduction, "Philip
José Farmer: On the Road to the Emerald City", and
story
introductions by Christopher Paul Carey, a story introduction
by Win Scott Eckert, and interior illustrations by Jason Robert Bell,
Charles Berlin, Susan Gillis, Keith Howell, Karl Kauffman, and Shannon
Robicheaux. |
Keith
Howell &
Charles Berlin
the traycase
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Burton,
MI: Subterranean Press
ISBN 978-1-59606-778-3
ebook
12/2015
(385)
$ 4.99
Keith Howell and Charles Berlin
With an introduction, "Philip
José Farmer: On the Road to the Emerald City", and
story
introductions by Christopher Paul Carey, a story introduction
by Win Scott Eckert, and interior illustrations by Jason Robert Bell,
Charles Berlin, Susan Gillis, Keith Howell, Karl Kauffman, and Shannon
Robicheaux. |
Keith Howell
&
Charles Berlin
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