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Sci Fi Focus   >   Encyclopedia   >   Philip José Farmer
Philip José Farmer (1918-) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy.

Much of Farmer's work uses existing fictional characters such as Doc Savage, Tarzan and Sherlock Holmes.

Probably Farmer's most well-known work is the Riverworld series.

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Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke (Bison Frontiers of Imagination)

By Philip Jose Farmer

Bison Books
Paperback (316 pages)

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Through the tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs, generations of readers have thrilled to the adventures of Lord Greystoke (aka John Clayton, but better known as Tarzan of the Apes). In this biography Philip José Farmer pieces together the life of this fantastic man, correcting Burroughs’s errors and deliberate deceptions and tracing Tarzan's family tree back to other extraordinary figures, including Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes, the Scarlet Pimpernel, Doc Savage, Nero Wolfe, and Bulldog Drummond.
 
Tarzan Alive offers the first chronological account of Tarzan's life, narrated in careful detail garnered from Burroughs’s stories and other sources. From the ill-fated voyage that led to Greystoke's birth on the isolated African coast to his final adventures as a group captain in the RAF during World War II, Farmer constructs a comprehensive and authoritative account. Farmer’s assertion that Tarzan was a real person has led him to craft a biography as well researched and compelling as that of any character from conventional history. This definitive Bison Books edition also includes Farmer’s “Exclusive Interview with Lord Greystoke†as well as “Extracts from the Memoirs of ‘Lord Greystoke’†first anthologized in Mother Was a Lovely Beast.

Lord of the Trees, the Mad Goblin

By Philip Jose Farmer

Ace Books
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Lord of the Trees, the Mad Goblin
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The Evil in Pemberley House

By Philip Jose Farmer

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For over thirty years, readers have marveled at Philip José Farmer's inventive integration of popular fiction and literature's most beloved characters, in a mythical web known as the Wold Newton Family. First described in the fictional biographies Tarzan Alive: The Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life, Farmer expanded his Wold Newton mythos in novels such as The Other Log of Phileas Fogg, The Adventure of the Peerless Peer, Time s Last Gift, Hadon of Ancient Opar, Flight to Opar, The Dark Heart of Time: A Tarzan Novel, and Escape from Loki: Doc Savage's First Adventure.

The Evil in Pemberley House, an addition to the Wold Newton cycle, plays with the Gothic horror tradition. Patricia Wildman, the daughter of the world-renowned adventurer and crimefighter of the 1930s and '40s, Dr. James Clarke "Doc" Wildman, is all alone in the world when she inherits the family estate in Derbyshire, England old, dark, and supposedly haunted.

But Farmer, characteristically, turns convention on its ear. Is the ghost real, or a clever sham? In Patricia Wildman, Farmer creates an introspective character who struggles to reconcile the supernatural with her rational scientific upbringing, while also attempting to work through unresolved feelings about her late parents. He sets the action at Pemberley from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and ingrains the various mysteries in the Canon of the Sherlock Holmes stories.

The Evil in Pemberley House is a darkly erotic novel with broad appeal to readers of pulp and popular literature, particularly followers of Doc Savage, Sherlockians, and fans of Farmer's own celebrated Wold Newton Family.

Dare (New Classics of the Fantastic)

By Philip Jose Farmer

IDW Publishing
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Dare (New Classics of the Fantastic)
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Though Earthmen first landed on the planet Dare 300 years earlier, they were still bound by the same standards of snobbery and fear... until Jack Cage, eldest son of a wealthy human, found himself strangely drawn to a spectacularly beautiful native. To consort with her meant death. But why? And what were humans doing on the planet anyway? Philip Jose Farmer's award-winning masterpiece is brought back to life in this beautiful package.

Myths for the Modern Age: Philip Jose Farmer's Wold Newton Universe

MonkeyBrain Books
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Myths for the Modern Age: Philip Jose Farmer s Wold Newton Universe
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In his classic "biographies" of fictional characters (Tarzan Alive and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life), Hugo- and Nebula-award winning author Philip José Farmer introduced the Wold Newton family, a collection of heroes and villains whose family-tree includes Sherlock Holmes, Fu Manchu, Philip Marlowe, and James Bond. In books, stories, and essays he expanded the concept even further, adding more branches to the Wold Newton family-tree. MYTHS FOR THE MODERN AGE: PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER’S WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE collects for the first time those rarely-seen essays. Expanding the family even farther are contributions from Farmer’s successors—scholars, writers, and pop-culture historians—who bring even more fictional characters into the fold. In addition to Win Scott Eckert and Philip Jose Farmer, contributors to this volume include Matthew Baugh, Christopher Paul Carey, Peter M. Coogan, Rick Lai, Chuck Loridans, Jess Nevins, Dennis E. Power, and John A. Small.

Flesh

By Philip Jose Farmer

Rhinoceros Publications
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Flesh
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Strange Relations

By Philip Jose Farmer

Baen
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Strange Relations
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Two complete novels and five novelettes that broke new ground in science fiction and established Philip Jose Farmer as a master of the genre:

 

The Lovers: One of the most controversial and groundbreaking novels in science fiction. Sent by the religious tyranny of a future Earth to the planet Ozagen, Hal Yarrow met Jeanette, an apparently human fugitive, hiding in ancient ruins built by a long-vanished race. Unconsecrated contact with any female was forbidden to Yarrow—and love for an alien female was an unspeakable abomination. But Yarrow’s lifelong conditioning was no match for his strange attraction to Jeanette.

 

Flesh: The starship captain had been on a voyage lasting 800 years, and returned to find an Earth ruled by revived ancient pagan rituals. He was crowned the “Sunhero,†which was a very dubious honor . . . and unless he could escape, he would be the guest of honor at a fertility rite which would conclude with his very unpleasant death.

 

Strange Relations: Five novelettes of unbounded imagination telling of strange—and often deadly—encounters between human and alien.

Riverworld: Including To Your Scattered Bodies Go & The Fabulous Riverboat

By Philip Jose Farmer

Tor Books
Released: 2010-03-30
Paperback (448 pages)

Riverworld: Including To Your Scattered Bodies Go & The Fabulous Riverboat
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"Charts a territory somewhere between Gulliver's Travels and The Lord of the Rings."
--Time

To Your Scattered Bodies Go and The Fabulous Riverboat
Combined for the first time in one volume!

Imagine that every human who ever lived, from the earliest Neanderthals to the present, is resurrected after death on the banks of an astonishing and seemingly endless river on an unknown world. They are miraculously provided with food, but with not a clue to the possible meaning of this strange afterlife. And so billions of people from history, and before, must start living again.

Some set sail on the great river questing for the meaning of their resurrection, and to find and confront their mysterious benefactors. On this long journey, we meet Sir Richard Francis Burton, Mark Twain, Odysseus, Cyrano de Bergerac, and many others, most of whom embark upon searches of their own in this huge afterlife.

Stone God Awakens

By Philip Jose Farmer

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Stone God Awakens
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The Dark Design (Riverworld Saga)

By Philip Jose Farmer

Tor Books
Released: 2010-06-08
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The Dark Design (Riverworld Saga)
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Milton Firebrass, once Mark Twain's enemy and now his greatest ally, plans to build a giant airship that can fly to the North Pole of Riverworld.  Once there, he hopes to learn the secret of the mysterious tower that dominates the landscape and find the answer to his most urgent question: could the tower contain the Ethicals, the enigmatic beings that created Riverworld?

Meanwhile, Jill Gulbirra is challenged for the job of piloting the airship by none other than Cyrano de Bergerac. As if there were not enough challenges facing the crew, they soon suspect there is an agent of the Ethicals among their number, plotting their destruction….


 
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