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News
& What's New - November-December 2019 |
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Tying
the world together |
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31 Dec
2019
 «Philip
Jose Farmer was tapping into something powerful when he had Doc Savage
and Tarzan literally cross cocks that one time, and we're not just
talking about the obvious throbbing members.
Farmer's A
Feast Unknown
brought together the two pulp heroes under legal-friendly aliases and
is still a ridiculously entertaining action romp, 45 years after it was
published in 1970. It's just a tiny slice in Farmer's massive
bibliography, but it's one of the most crucial, and most fun.
The fun is self-evident, with the adventure icons racing through a
fevered fight against the usual mysterious and vast global conspiracy,
while all their clothes fall off. But the importance is seriously
under-stated, because Farmer was playing around with some big,
culture-defining ideas decades ago, and the mainstream pop world is
only just catching up.»
The above intro is by Bob Temuka in his very interesting blog posted
some years ago on the website "The
Tearoom of Despair", where you can read the full essay.
Bob also mentions Farmer's other work.
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Dangerous
Visions in Romania |
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9 Dec
2019
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Dangerous
Visions in Japan |
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20 Nov
2019
 The Japanese publisher Hayakawa
published in December 1983 the first part of the collection Dangerous Visions
(1967), edited by Harlan Ellison. The Japanese title is 危険なヴィジョン 1.
Parts 2 and 3 were not published in Japan at that time.
The original book and the Japanese translation in book 1 contain
Farmer's story "Riders of
the Purple Wage" ("
紫年金の遊蕩者たち").
After nearly 36 years, in June 2019, Hayakawa published the first book
again, in a revised version with new translations. This time Hayakawa
will also publish books 2 and 3 of Dangerous
Visions.
The story is now titled "紫
綬褒金の騎手たち、または大いなる強制飼養".
If you wish you can order
the book from Amazon (ISBN 978-4-15-012234-8).
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Seven
books from Japan |
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17 Nov
2019
Last
week I
discovered a Japanese web shop that had several Phil Farmer books for
sale. I ordered seven of them and received the books within a week.
Till now I had only been able sparsely buying single books
from Japan,
if at all.
The seven books shown above are:
When I received the paperbacks I
discovered
that five of them are not first printings, although they look the same.
That are the first five of the above list. These are later, undated
reprints. The copyright pages are the same as with the first printings,
they only mention the publication date of the first printing.
The only difference between the printings is the new price, printed on
the spine and the back cover.
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| Statistics |
These are the
numbers for the book pages this month.
 1920
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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