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News
& What's New - February 2017 |
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Another
announcement from Meteor House |
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26 Feb
2017
The Adventure
of the Fallen Stone (Being the First Part of the Account
of The Dynamics of a
Meteor), by John H.
Watson, M.D., edited by Win Scott Eckert.
From the announcement: «Philip José
Farmer’s The Adventure of the Peerless Peer
was only the beginning. The
Adventure of the Fallen Stone
is chronicling Sherlock Holmes’ ongoing efforts to combat the
hellish hun, as recounted by the Great Detective’s Boswell,
Dr.
John H. Watson, and edited for publication by Win Scott
Eckert!»
The chapbook, 24 pages, can now be preordered from Meteor
House for $8, plus shipping. It will be published in March
2017.
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Meteor
House announces The Best of Farmerphile |
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6 Feb
2017
The
announcement from Meteor
House:
Farmerphile: The
Magazine of Philip José Farmer
was a quarterly fanzine that ran fifteen issues from July 2005 to
January 2009. Michael Croteau served as publisher for all fifteen
issues; Christopher Paul Carey and Paul Spiteri coedited the first ten
issues, while Spiteri and Win Scott Eckert coedited the last five.
Thanks to the generosity of Philip José Farmer and his
“Magic Filing Cabinet,” Farmerphile
published—for the
first time anywhere—short stories (mostly not science
fiction),
excerpts, articles, speeches, and letters written by Farmer. It even
serialized the novel Up from the Bottomless Pit
(not included in this collection, but forthcoming from Meteor House).
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Hardcover
($40) |
Trade
paperback ($29) |
Now the hard part:
narrowing down so
much content into one “Best of” collection. This
was much
harder than it sounds, as nearly all the content was worthy of
inclusion. So, we focused on broadly covering as much ground as
possible, as well as including pieces that touched on
Farmer’s
personal life. Assembled here is a wealth of information about one of
the greatest science fiction writers of all time along, with some of
his earliest writing.
The
Best of Farmerphile
is available in two editions: a Trade Paperback and a Hardcover Limited
Edition. The books can be preordered now. They will be published in the
Summer, in July 2017.
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Cougar
by the Tail |
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1 Feb
2017
Last
year I asked Tracy Knight if and when he
would finish Philip José Farmer's western novel Cougar By the Tail.
Ten years ago, in 2007, Tracy got the permission from Phil and Bette
Farmer to complete the novel, which Farmer had started somewhere in the
1970s. The finishing of the novel was announced
in July 2008, together with other likewise announcements.
An excerpt of this
novel was published in the fanzine Farmerphile,
Issue No. 15, January 2009.
In the interview in this issue Tracy said that he had finished the
novel between a third and a half.
But unlike the other announced works, "Getting
Ready to Write" (with Paul Spiteri), The
Evil in Pemberley House (with Win Scott Eckert), and the
third Opar novel The Song of Kwasin (with
Christopher Paul Carey), nothing was following the original
announcement of Cougar
By the Tail.
Reason also for my question.
Tracy Knight made it clear to me that he will not finish Phil Farmer's
western novel. He had not a good feeling about finishing it. I do not
know his exact words, because I cannot find his message anymore, but
Tracy cares much about Farmer's writing, and him finishing it would do
the novel no good.
It's a pity, but we have to trust Tracy's judgment on this. I would
have loved to see the novel.
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