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News
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The
Pterodactyl |
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Nov 2012
Another
story page has been restyled. the page of one of Phil Farmer's poems, "The Pterodactyl".
First time published in the fanzine Sky Hook, numer 16,
Winter 1952-53. And since then published eight times, of which one is a
translation into Spanish.
All of Farmer's (known) poems are included in the collection Pearls
from Peoria (2006).
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Jack Gaughan |
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Latest
Dangerous Visions |
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Nov 2012
No,
this is not the Last
Dangerous Visions,
the final anthology in Harlan Ellison's 'dangerous visions' series.
That one was originally announced for publication
in 1973, was never published, but « it is still
yet to appear », according to the introduction by Adam
Roberts.
Roberts wrote the new introduction for the latest edition of Dangerous Visons,
published by Gollancz (UK) in February 2012, in their SF Masterworks
series.
Farmer's Hugo Award winning story "Riders
of the Purple Wage" is included in the anthology Dangerous Visions,
edited by Harlan Ellision.
Fred Fisher, again, informed me of this new publication, which I had
missed. I added the new publication on the –not yet
restyled– story page.
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Vincent Chong |
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Two times
Zoo 2000 |
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21
Nov 2012
More
than a year ago,
in September 2011, I restyled and updated the story page of "The King of the Beasts".
At that moment I had a list of 52 publications of the story.
Since then another nine publications were discovered and added to the
story page. One of them was only discovered recently by Fred Fisher
(Houston, Texas, US). He found a copy in a used books store of the
British hardcover (Gollancz, 1975) of the anthology Zoo 2000, edited by
Jane Yolen.
Fred Fisher: «...I like the Zoo 2000 cover, done
by David Smee, a lot...».
I searched online and also found and bought a copy in good condition.
But I also found a nice copy of a Britsh paperback publication
(Macmillan, 1976 - reprinted 1977). Macmillan had it published in their
series for young readers, the Topliner Redstar series.
Both publications were completely unknown to me till now.
Many thanks for the information Fred, keep it coming!
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David
Smee
Peter Whiteman |
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Locus
20th and 21st All-Centuries Poll |
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19
Nov 2012
If
you like the work of Philip José Farmer, enough to vote for
his work in a poll, then you ought to go to the website of Locus Online, for
the 20th
and 21st All-Centuries Poll, see here.
In the list of 20th
Century Novels you'll find the following Farmer
novels:
- A
Feast Unknown (1969)
- The
Green Odyssey (1957)
- The
Lovers (1961)
- To
Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971)
- The
Unreasoning Mask (1981)
You can vote for one or more of these or any of the other Phil Farmer
novels.
In the list of 20th
Century Short Fiction you will see the following
Farmer stories:
- The Alley Man (nva,
1959)
- The King of the Beasts
(ss, 1964)
- Mother (nvt,
1953)
- Riders of the Purple
Wage (nva, 1967)
- Sail On! Sail On!
(ss, 1952)
- The Sliced-Crosswise
Only-On-Tuesday
World (ss, 1971)
The same as with the novels, you can vote for one or more of these or
any of the other stories by Phil.
Voting
can be done until November 30th. Don't forget to vote!
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Val Lakey |
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More
eBooks |
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18
Nov 2012
Titan
Books not only publishes their reissues of Philip José
Farmer's
novels in beautiful trade paperbacks, but the novels also appear in
eBook format.
Amazon (US or UK) doesn't show these eBooks to people in my country,
the Netherlands, because «Kindle titles for your country are
not
available at Amazon». How unlucky we are...
Barnes & Noble makes no problems with their eBooks, Nook Books,
for my country.
I have added the eBooks from Titan Books to the page with Audio Books & eBooks.
Also the story "Riverworld"
in the anthology Sense
of Wonder. See the earlier
entry about the publication of this anthology.
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Lord of
the Trees received |
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14
Nov 2012
Right
on time! Today I received the new Titan Books edition of Lord
of the Trees, 'A Wold Newton Novel'.
This is the second novel in the Lord
Grandrith / Doc Caliban series. Titan Books calls it The
Secrets of the Nine series, a subdivision of the Wold Newton series.
The new edition includes a brand new introduction, "A Tale of Two
Universes", by Win Scott Eckert, the Wold Newton expert par excellence.
In his introduction Win explains the differences and the similarities
between Lord Greystoke, or Tarzan, and Lord Grandrith. And also between
Doc Savage and Doc Caliban. Are they the same or not? You have to read
Win's very interesting essay carefully to get the answer!
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In just a
few days: Lord of the Trees! |
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11
Nov 2012
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Alien Sex
as eBook |
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11
Nov 2012
Ellen
Datlow is the editor of the anthology Alien Sex, which
contains Phil Farmer's story "The
Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod". Alien Sex was
published originally in hardcover by Dutton, May 1990.
Now, twenty-two years later, in September 2012, the anthology
is
published again. This time as an eBook by Open Road Publishing.
I added the eBook publication on the page with Audio Books &
eBooks.
See Amazon
(Kindle $ 11.49) or B&N
(Nook $ 8.99) for the ordering information.
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| Added
Books |
One new addition on the book
pages this month.
 Lord
of the Trees
The reissue from Titan Books, 2012.
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| Statistics |
These are the
numbers for the book pages this month.
1773
publications
1162 different
covers
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