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D'Ammassa,
Don - "Farmer, Philip José"
Entry about Farmer's writing career and works over the years:
"His
earlier novels are just as fresh and entertaining today as they were
when they first appeared, and a surprisingly small proportion of his
output has failed to age well. It would not be surprising if his work
was valued even higher in the future than it has been in the past."
There are also entries on the "Riverworld series"
("...The setting is one of the most unusual in the field's history...")
and the story "Riders
of the Purple Wage" ("...The satire, which sometimes
approaches absurdity, masks a serious look at choices that may face us
at some point in the future...") and finally, at the end of the book, a
bibliography of his science fiction works.
- Encyclopedia
of Science Fiction, by Don D'Ammassa
Facts On File, ISBN 0-8160-5924-1, hardcover, 06/2005
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D'Ammassa,
Don - "Sail On! Sail On!"
Farmer is only mentioned briefly in relation to other author's work
in this encyclopedia, but his story "Sail
On! Sail On!" has its own
entry: "Sometimes a fantasy writer takes a very absurd premise, treats
it seriously, and the result is a story that sticks firmly in the
reader's memory simply because it is so audacious..."
- Encyclopedia
of Fantasy and Horror Fiction, by Don D'Ammassa
Facts On File, ISBN 0-8160-6192-0, hardcover, 03/2006
Checkmark Books, ISBN 0-8160-6924-7, large paperback, 03/2006
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Crocker |
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de Turris, Gianfranco & Fusco, Sebastiano - "Introduzione"
An introduction to the Italian edition
of Strange Relations.
This is based on Alfred
Bester's article
in the March 1961 issue
of Fantasy & Science Fiction, in which he
composes an All Star SF Author.
- (Italian)
Relazioni
Aliene
Fanucci (Futuro 3), no ISBN, trade paperback, 11/1973
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Massimo
Jacoponi |
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de Turris, Gianfranco & Fusco, Sebastiano - "Introduzione: Eros
e fantascienza"
An introduction to the Italian edition
of The Alley God.
The theme Farmer often used, eroticism or sex, is the subject of this
essay. Farmer's use of this theme is compared to that of many other
authors, like Brian Aldiss, Poul Anderson, Robert A. Heinlein, and more.
- (Italian)
Un
dio dal passato
Fanucci (Futuro 2), no ISBN, paperback, 07/1972
Fannuci (Sidera 2), no ISBN, paperback, -/1982
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de Turris, Gianfranco & Fusco, Sebastiano - "Introduzione:
L'«irriverenza» di Philip José Farmer"
An introduction to the Italian edition
of The
Wind Whales of Ishmael. About Farmer's irreverence writing
career, the influences for his work, like Freud and Jung, the source
or reason for this novel—Moby
Dick
by Herman Melville—, and about his life.
- (Italian)
Pianeta
d'aria
Fanucci (Futuro 37), no ISBN, trade paperback, 03/1978
Fannuci (Biblioteca di Fantascienza
4), ISBN 88-347-0252-2,
trade paperback, 06/1988
Fannuci (Biblioteca di Fantascienza 4), ISBN 88-347-0252-2, trade
paperback, 07/1988
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Bruce
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del Rey, Lester
- "Of Time and the River"
On
the occasion of the publication
of the long awaited The
Dark Design
Lester del Rey introduces the Riverworld series and writes about its
troublesome
publication history. He also reviews this book, the third in the
series,
and concludes: "...this Riverworld is a really grand creation - one of
the greatest inventions of science fiction. And The Dark
Design
adds a great deal to it. It's a book no reader should miss." In this
same
article Del Rey reviews PJF's The
Maker
of Universes and The Gates of
Creation.
- Analog,
December 1977
[SF magazine, edited by Ben Bova.]
- (Italian: "Philip J. Farmer - Il Grande Disegno")
Cosmo
Informatore No. 1, July 1978
[Information bulletin of the publisher Nord. Also
includes Farmer's foreword
to the novel.]
- (Italian:
"Presentazione")
Il
Grande Disegno
Nord (Cosmo 77/78), ISBN 88-429-0086-9, hardcover, 07/1978
[Translation of The
Dark Design.]
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Rick
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Desimon,
Michel - "Postface"
An
afterword to the novel The
Lovers.
- (French)
Les
amants étrangers
- L'univers à l'envers
(omnibus)
Opta/Club du Livre d'Anticipation, no ISBN,
hardcover [no dustjacket], 03/1968
- ("Afterword")
Riverside
Quarterly, Vol.4
#1, August 1969
[Critical
journal. Preceded by "Philip
José Farmer's "The Lovers"" by Leland
Sapiro.]
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Dick,
Philip K. - "Open Letter to Philip José Farmer"
Philip José Farmer had written a letter in the SFWA Forum
about the 'elected honorary membership' of Stanislaw Lem, with which
Farmer disagreed. Dick fully agrees with him and uses this letter to
vent his own frustrations with Lem.
- SFWA
Forum, Number 41, October 1975
[Bulletin of the Science Fiction Writers of America, edited by Theodore
R. Cogswell.]
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Di
Filippo, Paul - "Introduction"
A very enthusiastic piece about Carey's co-writing with Farmer on this
novel: «The story of how Carey found the aborted manuscript
of
the third Khokarsa novel, along with supporting notes, then consulted
at length with Farmer to produce the capstone to the trilogy, is
certainly one of the standout anecdotes of recent fannish
memory.»
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Bob
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Doering,
Bruce - "A Different Kind of Checklist"
A
bibliography of PJF's stories
and articles in anthologies, magazines and fanzines.
- Collecting
Paperbacks? Vol.2
#2, May 1980
[Fanzine, edited by Lance Casebeer.]
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Dorémieux, Alain - "Post-Scriptum"
An
addition to the translated essay about Philip José Farmer by
Sam Moskowitz, which originally was published in 1964.
Dorémieux covers the years from 1964 till 1968 about
Farmer's work.
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Drake,
J.D. - "Philip José Farmer: 1918-1953"
A
brief and very compact biography
about the life of PJF and his early years in the career as an author.
- Farmerage
Vol.1 No.1, June 1978
[Fanzine, edited by George H. Scheetz.]
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Dudley,
Joseph M. - "Transformational SF Religions: Philip Jose Farmer's Night
of Light and Robert Silverberg's Downward to the
Earth"
Critical
essay about the religious
themes, "...about how humankind searches for divine elements, both
within
itself and in the whole of the physical universe...", in Farmer's Night
of Light and Silverberg's Downward to the
Earth: "...the
protagonists must personally interact with their surroundings in such a
way that both character and environment are ultimately transformed."
- Extrapolation
Vol.35 #4, Winter
1994
[Academic
journal, edited by Donald M. Hassler.]
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Duffy,
Jo - "Bookview"
In
his column Jo Duffy reviews/discusses The
Magic Labyrinth and the other books in the Riverworld series.
- Epic
#8, October 1981
[Comics magazine, edited by Archie Goodwin.]
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