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News
& What's New - September 2019 |
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Edgar
Rice Burroughs Universe |
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20 Sep
2019
 Farmer's Tarzan novel, Tarzan
and the Dark Heart of Time, entered the 'Edgar Rice Burroughs
Universe'.
Meteor House,
the publisher, had this news on their website:
«We were so thrilled when Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.
announced at
the ERB panel at San Diego Comic-Con on July 19, 2019 that certain
previously published authorized Burroughs novels by other writers
—specifically Philip José Farmer’s Tarzan and the Dark Heart of Time
and Fritz Leiber’s Tarzan
and the Valley of Gold— are considered official
canonical novels in terms of the Edgar
Rice Burroughs Universe™ (ERBU), that we
immediately asked ERB, Inc. if we could add the ERBU logo to our next
printings of Tarzan and
the Dark Heart of Time.
With an enthusiastic “yes” from ERB, Inc. in
response, we
quickly ordered a new run of hardcovers. Softcovers won’t
have
the new logo until we sell through our current stock, and ebooks will
be updated with the new logo soon.»
The second state dustjacket has been added on the book page.
The Edgar Rice
Burroughs Universe will be expanded with a new series of
canonical novels in 2020. See the ERB
Universe website.
We see new novels by the well known names Win Scott Eckert and
Christopher Paul Carey for instance!
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FarmerCon
XIV program book |
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8 Sep
2019
 Every
year Michael Croteau makes a small program book for the FarmerCons.
They are for free for the attendees. And like the previous years Mike
sent me a copy too, this time of FarmerCon XIV,
held on August 15-18, 2019 in Pittsburgh, PA. Thanks Mike!
Every year there are some new items and reprints of older and rare
material.
New this time are some anecdotes by Garyn G. Roberts, two drawings of
R'li by Don Simpson, and an essay about Farmer's heroes by Paul Spiteri.
Reprints are a foreword and an afterword, both by Philip
José
Farmer. One of them is also included in the collection, mentioned in
the previous entry.
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The
Mad Fokker Struck Again |
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7 Sep
2019
 The above title is the first line in
the Greatheart Silver
stories. Thus starts a very funny series of stories, full
with action and old great pulp heroes.
I loved the stories very much when I read them back in the 1970s, and
again when they were published in novel form, as Greatheart
Silver, by Tor Books in paperback in 1982.
It was high time to have these stories printed again!
And that is what Meteor House
did with the new collection in a very beautiful hardcover, Greatheart
Silver and Other Pulp Heroes.
Not only the three Greatheart Silver stories were included, but also
two other 'pulp' stories, "Savage
Shadow" and "Skinburn".
Both these stories were intended to be the first in their own series of
stories, but, alas, Farmer never came to write more.
Garyn G. Roberts, Ph.D. wrote a very interesting introduction for this
book, "Fibers of
Pulpwood Ran in His Blood"
(subtitled: "Philip José Farmer in the 1970s"):
«...Farmer
consumed pulp fiction from the time of his childhood between the two
world wars until his passing in the early twenty-first century. At the
end of the pulp era, Philip José Farmer was a bright light
in
the fading medium...»
Enough said, I think it is time to read and enjoy these stories again!
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| Statistics |
These are the
numbers for the book pages this month.
 1915
publications
1303 different
covers
There are less covers than publications due to the reprints with the
same cover, and due to omnibuses.
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