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News
& What's New - May 2012 |
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Gods of
Opar, limited edition: SOLD OUT!! |
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30
May
2012
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Bob Eggleton |
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Gods of
Opar, limited edition nearly sold out |
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29
May
2012
Subterranean
Press published an announcement about the
new omnibus Gods of Opar: Tales of Lost
Khokarsa:
« The limited edition, signed by Carey, which contains
extensive background material on the omnibus, is over 85% sold out, and
continuing to sell steadily. Preorders from our wholesale and large
online retail accounts has been strong. If you’re of a mind
to pick up a copy of either edition of this mammoth (576 pages)
omnibus, now’s the time. »
If you haven't yet preordered
a copy of one of the only 250 limited edition copies or one of the
trade edition, I can only urge you to do so now, before they are all
gone!
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Bob Eggleton |
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Portraits
of a Trickster |
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23
May
2012
Meteor
House revealed the cover of The Worlds of Philip
José Farmer: Portraits of a Trickster. This is
the third in a series of anthologies.
At this time no further information yet about the contents. This book
will be published this Summer, maybe in August.
The great cover art has been done by Keith Howell.
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Beverly
Hills, Level 14 |
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22
May
2012
The
short story "The Oogenesis of
Bird City" (1970) originally was a part of the much longer,
and award winning story "Riders
of the Purple Wage" (1967).
Philip José Farmer in his afterword to the latter one:
«A
more detailed description of the physical construction of a community,
"The Oogenesis of Beverly Hills, Level 14", was cut out.»
Ted White in his introduction in Amazing:
«Rewritten to stand on its own feet, the story which follows
is
effectively the prologue to "Riders of the Purple Wage". In it we are
introduced for the first time to the City of Tomorrow...».
Illustration
by Mike Hinge in Amazing.
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Jeff Jones |
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All Titan
Books reissues are known |
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21
May
2012
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Dreamtime |
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A Wold
Newton Novel received |
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20
May
2012
The
Other Log of Phileas Fogg
is the first of a new series of books by Philip José Farmer
from
the UK publisher Titan Books. Most of their reissues are Wold Newton
Universe related works, as you can see on top of the cover (click on
the thumbnail at right).
While still in his teens Farmer read Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days
four or five times. More than thirty years had passed before he read
that novel again. Only at that time he discovered that the novel had
two stories, there was a second layer, a behind-the-scenes story. This
discovery was the reason Farmer started writing The Other Log of Phileas Fogg.
It was time the truth would be told...
Now, nearly forty years after its first publication, Farmer´s
novel has been reissued. And his novel too has another layer. Something
I didn´t know of when I first read it. Phileas Fogg, the
protagonist, is a member of the Wold Newton Family. This makes the
novel related to the Wold Newton
Universe (WNU).
But we do not have to discover that for ourselves, like Farmer had to
do with Verne´s novel. Win Scott Eckert helps us with his two
afterwords in the book.
If you have read The
Other Log of Phileas Fogg
in the past then give it a second chance with this new edition. Win
Scott Eckert´s information in his two afterwords is very
intriguing,
and after reading his information you can read the novel again with
completely new eyes.
I love the new edition from Titan Books. A beautiful book with all the
extra information on the WNU relation. Highly recommended!
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Dreamtime |
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Publication
of Gods of
Opar delayed |
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15
May
2012
The
new Subterranean Press omnibus Gods of Opar: Tales of Lost
Khokarsa was scheduled for publication in April 2012.
Alas, the book is still with the printer, and SubPress is waiting to
get the books in from them. If everything goes according to
the new plans, we might expect the book in June.
See also the blog
entry
of Christopher Paul Carey for this.
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Bob Eggleton |
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The
Other Log of Phileas Fogg released |
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15
May
2012
It
seems that the new Titan Books (UK) edition of Phil Farmer's The
Other Log of Phileas Fogg came out a week ago.
I have not seen it yet, nor received an update of my order of the book
from Amazon. Hopefully I will have it soon!
Win Scott Eckert already has gotten his copy, see his weblog
–with some nice comments– about this book.
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Dreamtime |
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Only Who
Can Make a Tree? |
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5
May
2012
A
story that reminded me immediately of the old Marx Brothers movies.
The things that the Marx Brothers were doing were meant well, but
everything
they tried to accomplish went absurdly wrong.
The same thing happens to the four (mad) scientists. They have a
government contract to fight pollution. But the scientists are not very
lucky inventing the right solution, but along the way to this they do
several other great inventions. Like flying goats... that eat
everything, a universal solvent that goes through everything... deep
into the earth and finds an oil well, and more. Everything seems
completely out of control!
"Only Who
Can Make a Tree?" is one of Philip José Farmer's
stories in the so called Polytropical
Paramyths series, strangely absurd tales.
Phil wrote this about the story: «The idea for "Only Who Can
Make
a Tree?" I owe to Ted Sturgeon. At a party at Harlan Ellison's, he told
me he'd long thought of writing a story which would reverse the
time-(w)ho(a)red Gernsbackian tale of the mad scientist and his
beautiful young daughter. What about, Ted said, a story about the
beautiful young scientist and her mad daughter? He would, he added,
probably never write it. So I asked him if I could use it, since the
idea appealed so strongly to me. Graciously, he consented.»
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Chesley
Bonestell |
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Books |
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| Statistics |
These are the
numbers for the book pages this month.
 1752
publications
1150 different
covers
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