Piers Anthony, Author, Philip Jose Farmer, Author, P. Anthony, Author Ace Books $18.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-441-09488-2
A tiresome performance by two genre talents who surely can do better, this is the old space opera story whereby a brave individual from earth manages to outwit an entire race of superior beings, get the girl and save the galaxy. Jack is an...
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Philip Jose Farmer, Author . Subterranean $45 (773p) ISBN 978-1-59606-059-3
This colossal scrapbook of scarce, offbeat fiction, poetry and nonfiction from SF veteran Farmer offers fans a smorgasbord of his hard—and impossible—to find work from fanzines and other small publications, spanning the 1940s to the...
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Philip Jose Farmer, Author . Subterranean $38 (323p) ISBN 978-1-59606-142-2
Farmer appends his own name at last to his stories written under pen names borrowed from other authors' characters, most famously Venus on the Half-Shell
, a novel allegedly by Kurt Vonnegut's fictional science fiction writer, Kilgore...
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Philip Jose Farmer, Author Putnam Publishing Group $17.95 (317p) ISBN 978-0-399-13230-8
The New Era, several thousand years in the future, seems a utopia. War, poverty, hunger and pollution are all obsolete. Overpopulation has been handled by dividing the population into seven groups, each fraction living one day a week while the...
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Philip Jose Farmer, Author Tor Books $18.95 (324p) ISBN 978-0-312-85035-7
William St. George Duncan successfully takes over his grandfather's secret organization and uses it to start a rebellion against the world government. As a political statement, he allows himself to be captured and put on trial--and then creates a...
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Philip Jose Farmer, Author Tor Books $20.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-85280-1
Hugo Award-winner Farmer ( Red Orc's Rage ) returns to his popular World of Tiers for a disappointing conclusion. Tiers (like Earth) is in a continuum of often very different ``pocket'' universes, created by the super-powerful Lords. These universes
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Philip Jose Farmer, Author, Dorman T. Shindler, Editor . Subterranean $38 (572p) ISBN 978-1-59606-036-4
Joe R. Lansdale, in his introduction to this sterling "best of" collection, calls Farmer "the most underrated science fiction writer of all time." Farmer's talent was evident early on in such tales as "The Lovers," one
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Philip José Farmer, Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $40 (336p) ISBN 978-1-59606-329-7
This posthumous collection of 16 works by Hugo winner Farmer (1918–2009) provides an excellent introduction to the themes that permeated much of his writing, even if it doesn't include many of his most important stories. "Crossing the Dark River"...
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Philip José Farmer and Christopher Paul Carey. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $45 (576p) ISBN 978-1-59606-471-3
The late Farmer (1918–2009; Riverworld) wrote two novels paying tribute to and expanding on the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the outline of a third. This outline informs Carey’s development of a story that focuses on exiled Kwasin, the “stronge
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Philip Jose Farmer, Author, Win Scott Eckert, Author . Subterranean $40 (214p) ISBN 978-1-59606-249-8
Set in Farmer's imaginative Wold Newton universe (the setting for Tarzan Alive
; Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life
; and other novels), in which an 18th-century meteor impact led to a genetic mutation that produced numerous superheroic...
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Philip José Farmer and Danny Adams. Meteor, $25 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-945427-01-5
Best known for his Riverworld and World of Tiers series, Farmer (1918–2009) also created the fascinating Dayworld trilogy. His great-nephew Adams (Lest Camelot Fall), a PW reviewer, attempts to live up to that legacy in this posthumous collaboration,
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