Philip José Farmer International Bibliography: Series Listing

Series Listing

Here you will find the novels or short stories that are part of a series, or which have one or more characters, locations or ideas in common. The numbers after some entries indicate that these are part of a continuing story.
See also the page Shared Worlds.
See this page for the Wold Newton Universe (WNU) series.

Baudelaire "Mother", 1953 "Daughter", 1954

Beverly Hills, Level 14 "Riders of the Purple Wage", 1967 "The Oogenesis of Bird City", 1970

Dayworld "The Sliced-Crosswise Only-on-Tuesday World", 1971 Dayworld, 1985 (#1) Dayworld Rebel, 1987 (#2) Dayworld Breakup, 1990 (#3) Dayworld: A Hole in Wednesday, 2016 [with Danny Adams]

Detective Raspold See also the Father John Carmody series. "Strange Compulsion" [aka. "The Captain's Daughter"], 1953 "Some Fabulous Yonder", 1963

Doc Savage See also the Lord Grandrith/Doc Caliban series. Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life, 1973 Escape from Loki, 1991 "Doc Savage and the Cult of the Blue God", 2006 The Evil in Pemberley House, 2009

Exorcism (Herald Childe) The Image of the Beast, 1968 (#1) Blown, 1969 (#2) Traitor to the Living, 1973

Father John Carmody See also the Detecive Raspold series. "Attitudes", 1953 (#1) "Father", 1955 (#2) "The Night of Light", 1957 (#3) "A Few Miles", 1960 (#4) "Prometheus", 1961 (#5) Night of Light, 1966 [Expansion of the story into a novel.] Father to the Stars, 1981 [Italian edition, 1976] [Collection with all five of the stories in the series.]

Fictional Biographies "The Obscure Life and Hard Times of Kilgore Trout", 1971 Tarzan Alive, 1972 Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life, 1973 "Jonathan Swift Somers III: Cosmic Traveller in a Wheelchair", 1977

Grant-Robeson Papers "Savage Shadow", 1977 by Maxwell Grant (pseudonym) [More stories by Maxwell Grant or Kenneth Robeson were announced but have not been published.]

Greatheart Silver See also: Announced Books. Farmer wrote notes on other stories in this series. "Greatheart Silver in Showdown at Shootout", 1975 (#1) "The Return of Greatheart Silver", 1975 (#2) "Greatheart Silver in the First Command", 1977 (#3) [A fourth episode, "Greatheart Silver in The Great Fog", was announced, but not published.] Greatheart Silver, 1982 [Novel, consisting of the three parts.] Greatheart Silver and Other Pulp Heroes, 2019 [Collection, with these three and other stories.]

Kent Lane See also: Announced Books. "Skinburn", 1972 The Bronze Serpent [Announced, but not published.]

Lord Grandrith / Doc Caliban Also called: Secrets of the Nine See also: Announced Books. See also the Doc Savage series. A Feast Unknown, 1969 (#1) Lord of the Trees, 1970 (#2) The Mad Goblin, 1970 (#3) "The Monster on Hold", 1983 "Down to Earth's Centre", 2008

Opar / Khokarsa See also: Announced Books Time's Last Gift, 1972 [A prequel to the series] Hadon of Ancient Opar, 1974 (#1) Flight to Opar, 1976 (#2) "Kwasin and the Bear God", 2011 [With Christopher Paul Carey] The Song of Kwasin, 2012 (#3) [With Christopher Paul Carey] Gods op Opar: Tales of Lost Khokarsa, 2012 (omnibus)

Oz Universe See the list of the Oz Universe items at ISFDB. "The Tin Woodman Slams the Door", 1954 (essay) A Barnstormer in Oz, 1982 "The Unnaturals", 2005 (written: 1973)

Polytropical Paramyths "Totem and Taboo", 1954 "Don't Wash the Carats", 1968 "The Voice of the Sonar in My Vermiform Appendix", 1971 "Brass and Gold", 1971 "Only Who Can Make a Tree?", 1971 "The Sumerian Oath", 1972 "Getting Ready to Write", 2008 [With Paul Spiteri.] [The first six are all included in the first editions of The Book of Philip José Farmer.]

Ralph von Wau Wau See also: Announced Books "A Scarletin Study", 1975 by Jonathan Swift Somers III (pseudonym) "The Doge Whose Barque Was Worse Than His Bight", 1976 by Jonathan Swift Somers III (pseudonym) "Who Stole Stonehenge?", 2005 [Uncompleted story, only the first 450 words.]

Riverworld See also: the page Miscellany. See also: the Riverworld (2003) movie page. See also: the Riverworld (2010) movie page. "Day of the Great Shout", 1965 [Part of To Your Scattered Bodies Go.] "The Suicide Express", 1966 [Part of To Your Scattered Bodies Go.] "Riverworld", 1966 [Expanded 1971 and again 1979.] "The Felled Star", 1967 [Part of The Fabulous Riverboat.] "The Fabulous Riverboat", 1971 [Part of The Fabulous Riverboat.] To Your Scattered Bodies Go, 1971 (#1) The Fabulous Riverboat, 1971 (#2) The Dark Design, 1977 (#3) The Magic Labyrinth, 1980 (#4) "Riverworld War", 1980 [Left out chapters of The Magic Labyrinth.] Gods of Riverworld, 1983 (#5) River of Eternity, 1983 [The original Riverworld novel, written in 1952 as the never published (I) Owe For The Flesh.] "Crossing the Dark River" (part 1), 1992 "A Hole in Hell", 1992 Tales of Riverworld, 1992 [Shared-World Anthology edited by Farmer.] "Up the Bright River" (part 2), 1993 "Coda", 1993 Quest to Riverworld, 1993 [Shared-World Anthology edited by Farmer.] Riverworld and Other Stories is not part of this series, this collection however contains the novella "Riverworld". Riverworld War is also not part of this series, this collection however contains "Riverworld War".

Secrets of the Nine Also called: Lord Grandrith / Doc Caliban See above.

Stations of the Nightmare (Paul Eyre) "The Two-Edged Gift", 1974 (#1) "The Startouched", 1974 (#2) "The Evolution of Paul Eyre", 1974 (#3) "Passing On", 1975 (#4) Stations of the Nightmare, 1982 [Novel, consisting of the four parts.]

Strangers & Brothers "The Face That Launched a Thousand Eggs", 2005 "Strangers & Brothers: Francis Uquart", 2011

Sturch (State Church) "The Lovers", 1952 [Expanded into the novel The Lovers.] "Moth and Rust", 1953 [Expanded and revised as A Woman a Day.] "Rastignac the Devil", 1954 A Woman a Day, 1960 The Lovers, 1961

Wold Newton Universe This was not intended by Philip José Farmer as a series, but the protagonists of the stories share the same genetics, they are part of Farmer's Wold Newton Family (WNF). This WNF was expanded by others, especially by Win Scott Eckert, into the Wold Newton Universe (WNU). See the Wold Newton Universe (WNU) series page. See also: The Wold Newton Universe websites.

World of Tiers See also: Announced Books. See also the World of Tiers omnibuses. The Maker of Universes, 1965 (#1) The Gates of Creation, 1966 (#2) A Private Cosmos, 1968 (#3) Behind the Walls of Terra, 1970 (#4) The Lavalite World, 1977 (#5) Red Orc's Rage, 1991 (only connected) More Than Fire, 1993 (#6)

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