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News
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Sherlock
Holmes and the Legend of Tarzan |
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30
Oct
2011
From
Win Scott Eckert comes the news
that The Peerless Peer
will see a German edition in 2012. It will be published by publisher Atlantis
with the title Sherlock
Holmes und die Legende von Tarzan.
This is great news! So far only one translation exists of the novella,
a French translation from 1975.
The German publication will also include the new afterword by Win
Scott
Eckert which he provided for the 2011 Titan Books edition.
Thanks and congratulations Win!
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Riverworld
in Sense of Wonder |
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30
Oct
2011
Farmer's
story "Riverworld"
was published in January 1966 in the science fiction magazine Worlds of Tomorrow.
It was slightly revised and expanded with the publication in the
collection Down in the Black Gang
(1971). Farmer still wasn't satisfied with it and expanded the story
again. The third version was published in his collection Riverworld
and Other Stories (1979).
In August Wildside
Press/Swordsmith Books published a huge anthology
–with about 225 stories, poems and essays– in a
huge paperback
–28×21,5cm (11×8,5inch)– of
nearly 1000 pages, Sense
of Wonder (A
Century of Science Fiction). This very heavy book costs only US$ 49.95.
It
seems there is or comes an ebook of the anthology for US$ 39.95, but I
haven't seen any
information about this yet.
In this anthology also a reprint of the first version of Farmer's story
"Riverworld".
Why the first version? I have no idea. In his introduction with
the story Grossman writes no word about the choice he made.
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Lord
Tyger comes again |
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25
Oct
2011
It
seems Titan
Books (UK) will publish more new editions of books
by Philip José Farmer.
Already mentioned this month were the novels Time's
Last Gift (June 2012) and The Other Log of Phileas Fogg
(May 2012). But they will also publish a new edition of Lord
Tyger (July 2012).
Maybe Titan Books starts publishing a new series of books, the Wold
Newton Universe series. It certainly looks that way.
See the page Forthcoming
Books.
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Richard
Clifton-Dey |
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Nobody's
Perfect |
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25
Oct
2011
Two
weeks ago, on October 12th,
I added the e-publication from 2003 of the story "Nobody's Perfect".
I was searching the internet if the ebook publication of the anthology The
Ultimate Dracula still exists, but found nothing.
I discovered a new edition of the printed version instead. Publisher
ipicturebooks (website)
had a new edition in trade paperback, published in June 2010 (price US$
17.95). This is a nearly exact copy of the original Dell trade
paperback of 1991.
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Bruce Jensen |
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Gods of
Opar: Tales of Lost Khokarsa |
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24
Oct
2011
I'm
just back from a short vacation in Istanbul (Turkey), a great and very
lively city with nearly 20 million –officially about 13
million– people. We enjoyed our stay in Istanbul.
Just back and already received some news, big news even. Subterranean
Press finally announced the publication of Gods of Opar: Tales of
Lost Khokarsa.
SubPress: "Gods of Opar:
Tales of Lost Khokarsa
collects for the first time anywhere Philip José
Farmer’s
epic Khokarsa cycle, including the never-before-published conclusion to
the trilogy, The Song
of Kwasin.
In Hadon of Ancient Opar,
the
young hero Hadon journeys from his outpost city to the heart of the
ancient African empire of Khokarsa, battling in the Great Games for the
chance to win the king’s crown. But just as Hadon stands upon
the
precipice of victory, the tyrannical King Minruth usurps the throne and
overturns the beneficent, centuries-old rule of the priestesses of Kho.
Now Hadon must set out upon a hero’s journey unlike any
other—to hunt down a living god and return with his bounty.
The
saga continues in Flight
to Opar, as a decree by the oracle hurtles Hadon upon a
perilous quest that will determine the fate of the next twelve
millennia. In The Song
of Kwasin,
Hadon’s herculean cousin returns to Khokarsa after long years
of
exile in the Wild Lands. But soon Kwasin finds that in order to clear
his name he will have to take up the cause against King Minruth himself
and stop him before he fulfills his mad quest for immortality high atop
the sun god’s bloody ziggurat."
The omnibus with the three Opar
/ Khokarsa novels
will be published in April 2012 in a trade edtion and in a limited
edition. The limited edition, numbered and signed by co-author
Christopher Paul Carey, has an additional section with
exclusive
material.
See the preorder page at Subterranean
Press.
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Roy Krenkel
Roy Krenkel |
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Two
stories by Farmer |
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16
Oct
2011
I
finished reading the two stories by Farmer in the anthology Worlds
of Philip José Farmer (2): Of Dust and Soul.
The first, "What I Thought I
Heard", is a very short story. If I tell too much about it,
the story will be given away. It has a nice twist at the end.
The second story, "Strangers
& Brothers: Francis Uquart" is a mainstream story.
Originally part of a to be written novel, but it wasn't bought by any
publisher.
Farmer writes a good story, he knows his way with words, but this one
doesn't impress me much. There is not much going on. A student, Tim
Howller, falls in love at first sight, in love for the first time in
his live. The girl of his desires is unreachable for several reasons,
one of them is her boyfriend. Because of this he starts drinking some
alcohol, also for the first time.
The story reeds smoothly, even if written somewhere in the 1950s. But
that is all I can say in favor for it.
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Laura Givens |
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eBook:
The Peerless Peer |
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12
Oct
2011
Titan
Books published The Peerless Peer as an eBook. It is
available for the Kindle as well as for the Nook, and other
e-Readers too.
The novella was added to the page Audio
Books and eBooks.
Also added is the e-publication
of the story "Nobody's
Perfect"
in the anthology The
Ultimate Dracula. This one was published back in 2003 for
the Palm, by one of the pioneers of electronic publications as
eBooks, Byron Preiss.
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New
edition of The Other Log of Phileas Fogg |
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10
Oct
2011
A
few days ago we mentioned the new forthcoming edition of
Time's Last Gift from publisher Titan Books.
The same publisher will also bring a new edition of The
Other Log of Phileas Fogg, Farmer's sequel to Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne. It will be published in May 2012.
Titan Books has no online information yet about both new publications.
But Amazon.com already has the pre-order information of both books on
their site, and B&N only of The
Other Log of Phileas Fogg..
The new edition has been added in the list of forthcoming books.
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Tony Roberts |
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Congratulations! |
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10
Oct
2011
This
month the Official
Philip José Farmer Web Page, from webmaster
Michael Croteau, celebrates its 10th Anniversary as the Official
Website of all things Farmerian.
Many congratulations with this Mike!
Michael also made some changes to the Official Home Page. The name of
the site changed a bit, the lay-out changed —for instance the
black background color changed to gray and Farmer's picture
disappeared— but most interesting is that the site will be
updated more frequently than only once a month.
With the update of Ocober 9th Mike has an interview with Charles R.
Saunders, an author influenced by Philip José Farmer.
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Audio
Books and eBooks |
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7
Oct
2011
The
page with the Audio Books
and eBooks needed an update. Several publications were not
yet mentioned. I received a reminder from Phil Farmer collector Fred
Fisher (Houston, Texas, US) about this. He had added the audio version
of The
Magic Labyrinth to his collection, and discovered the missing
info in the bibliography.
Thanks for the reminder Fred.
The omissions have been corrected. All Riverworld eBooks from Tor and
all the Riverworld Audio Books from Recorded Books are now included.
Also two eBook anthologies with stories by Farmer. The story "Rastignac the Devil"
has been published as an eBook with the title "After the Apocalyptic
War" (wrongly spelled Apocalypic on the 'cover').
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New
edition of Time's Last Gift |
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5
Oct
2011
In
his blog entry
about the free online opening scene of the story "Kwasin and the Bear God"
Christopher Paul Carey writes: "...It appears that Titan Books will be
putting out a new edition of Time's Last Gift, which
serves as a sort of prequel to the Khokarsa series (it's little secret
that the protagonist of Time's
Last Gift, John Gribardsun, shows up in the series as the
god Sahhindar). This is very exciting news indeed for Farmer and
Khokarsa fans, and well timed with the upcoming release next year of
the Khokarsa omnibus."
Great news indeed. The new edition has been added in the list of forthcoming books.
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Geoff Cummings |
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Kwasin
and the Bear God |
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5 Oct
2011
I
have read the fantasy novella "Kwasin
and the Bear God" by Philip José
Farmer and Christopher Paul Carey. I read it in one breath, and I love
it!
This is a great tale about Kwasin, cousin of Hadon, who is on the run
for his pursuers, the soldiers of Minruth. Much against his will he
dives head over heels in some strange adventures and battles.
After reading this fine story I can hardly wait for the new and upcoming third novel
in the Opar / Khokarsa series,
The
Song of Kwasin. Chris did a great job with the story, and
I expect him doing the same with the new novel. I cannot tell where
Phil ends and Chris starts in the story, it is a very exciting
adventure. Warmly recommended.
If you want to read some background information on the story "Kwasin
and the Bear God" you can visit the weblog
of Christopher Paul Carey. Or see this entry
on his blog for the free online opening scene of the story.
Better, go and buy the anthology The Worlds of Philip
José Farmer (2): Of Dust and Soul from the
publisher, Meteor
House.
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Laura Givens |
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