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www.pjfarmer.com @philipjosefarmer.bsky.social · Nov 25

The Official Philip José Farmer web site (www.pjfarmer.com) hasn't been updated for the last few years because the admins have been busy running Meteor House @meteorhouse.bsky.social. But we're going to publish interesting pics and links here on the regular.

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www.pjfarmer.com @philipjosefarmer.bsky.social · May 8

Philip José Farmer's best selling novel is TO YOUR SCATTERED BODIES GO, the Hugo Award winning debut novel in his Riverworld series. One of the greatest concepts in scifi, everyone who ever lived is resurrected on the banks of a million mile long river, with all their needs met, what could go wrong?

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www.pjfarmer.com @philipjosefarmer.bsky.social · Apr 27

The series includes non-fiction by: Randall Garrett, Laura Wilkes Carey, James Gunn, Jack Mertes, Danny Adams, Charles Platt, James Sallis, Thomas José Josephsohn, Michael Bailey, Steven Connelly, Bruce Sterling, Chris Garcia, Tom Wode Bellman, Jonathan Swift Somers III, David M. Harris...

www.pjfarmer.com @philipjosefarmer.bsky.social · Apr 27

...Leo Queequeg Tincrowdor, Terry Bibo, and François Mottier.

And fiction by: Edward Morris, Paul Spiteri, Rhys Hughes, Win Scott Eckert, David Bischoff, Christopher Paul Carey, Dennis E. Power, Chris Roberson, Edgar L. Chapman, Spider Robinson, Bradley H. Sinor, Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier...

www.pjfarmer.com @philipjosefarmer.bsky.social · Apr 27

...Mary A. Turzillo, John Allen Small, Charlotte Corday-Marat, Rick Lai, Heidi Ruby Miller, Octavio Aragão, Carlos Orsi, S.M. Stirling, Martin Gately, E. C. Lisic, and Art Sippo.

www.pjfarmer.com @philipjosefarmer.bsky.social · Apr 27

Meteor House launched in 2010 with THE WORLDS OF PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER volume 1. The four volumes in the series included previously unpublished material by Farmer himself as well as non-fiction about Farmer and his work and new authorized fiction by a wide range of contributors...

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www.pjfarmer.com @philipjosefarmer.bsky.social · Apr 20

Here're some Philip José Farmer news . . . the signature sheets for the first hardcover edition of Time's Last Gift are making the rounds and will be at the printer by the end of the month. meteorhousepress.com/times-last-g...

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www.pjfarmer.com @philipjosefarmer.bsky.social · Apr 17

Philip José Farmer wrote UP FROM THE BOTTOMLESS PIT in the 1970s, but it was first published when serialized over the first ten issues of Farmerphile (2005-2007), then published in a hardcover limited edition collection by Subterranean Press (2007), then in trade paperback by Meteor House (2020).

www.pjfarmer.com @philipjosefarmer.bsky.social · Apr 10

One of Philip José Farmer's rarest titles is LOVE SONG. First published in paperback by porn publisher Brandon House (1970), then a limited edition hardcover by Dennis McMillan (1983), and finally as a trade and limited edition paperback by Ramble House (2004).

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www.pjfarmer.com @philipjosefarmer.bsky.social · Apr 4

@meteorhouse.bsky.social just announced their second books for 2025, Savageology, a collection of over 50 years of Doc Savage fandom by Philip José Farmer and others!

Click here for all the details!
meteorhousepress.com/savageology/

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www.pjfarmer.com @philipjosefarmer.bsky.social · Mar 29

Philip José Farmer started the novel THE EVIL IN PEMBERLEY HOUSE in the early 1970s but never finished it. Win Scott Eckert completed the novel a out Doc Wildman's daughter using Phil's outline and notes. Published in hardcover by Subterranean Press (2009) and in paperback by Meteor House (2014).

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www.pjfarmer.com @philipjosefarmer.bsky.social · Mar 25

Philip José Farmer has written many versions and pastiches of Tarzan but none quite like LORD TYGER. It makes you wonder is anyone ever asked Phil what he would do if he was a billionaire . . .

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www.pjfarmer.com @philipjosefarmer.bsky.social · Mar 19

One of Philip José Farmer's wildest novels is THE STONE GOD AWAKENS where a 20th century scientist awakens 20 million years in the future. Published by ACE in 1970, and Panther in the UK in 1976 (and reprinted many times), Meteor House published the first hardcover edition in 2022.

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www.pjfarmer.com @philipjosefarmer.bsky.social · Mar 14

The two shared world anthologies, TALES OF RIVERWORLD and QUEST TO RIVERWORLD, feature stories by Philip José Farmer: "Crossing the Dark River," A Hole in Hell," Up the Bright River," and "Coda," as well as nineteen exciting tales by other well-known writers.

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www.pjfarmer.com @philipjosefarmer.bsky.social · Mar 10

Philip José Farmer's novel THE GATE OF TIME was first published in 1966, then revised and published under Farmer's preferred title, TWO HAWKS FROM EARTH. Farmer wrote an essay, "Creating Artificial Worlds" (Pulsar, Summer 1979) about the lengths he went to creating this alternate version of Earth.

www.pjfarmer.com @philipjosefarmer.bsky.social · Mar 7

After Christopher Paul Carey completed the third Ancient Opar novel, THE SONG OF KWASIN (which Philip José Farmer started in the the 1970s) Carey wrote three more novellas in Ancient Opar: EXILES OF KHO; HADON, KING OF OPAR; and BLOOD OF ANCIENT OPAR.

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www.pjfarmer.com @philipjosefarmer.bsky.social · Mar 3

Just some pictures of Philip José Farmer and his wife Bette in their home in Peoria, IL.

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www.pjfarmer.com @philipjosefarmer.bsky.social · Feb 28

One of Philip José Farmer's first books was the collection, STRANGE RELATIONS (1960) containing the stories "Mother," "Daughter," "Father," "Son," and "My Sister's Brother." Reprinted many times, including in hardcover in the UK, the last edition (2006) included the novels THE LOVERS and FLESH.

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www.pjfarmer.com @philipjosefarmer.bsky.social · Feb 26

In 2019 Meteor House published the hardcover collection GREATHEART SILVER AND OTHER PULP HEROES which also included more nod to the pulps, "The Grant Robeson Papers," "Savage Shadow," and "Skinburn."

www.pjfarmer.com @philipjosefarmer.bsky.social · Feb 26

Philip José Farmer created a "new pulp hero" with the stories "Greatheart Silver in Showdown at Shootout," "The Return of Greatheart Silver," and "Greatheart Silver in the First Command," in WEIRD HEROES volumes 1, 2 and 6 in 1975 and 1977. The stories were collected in GREATHEART SILVER in 1982.

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www.pjfarmer.com @philipjosefarmer.bsky.social · Feb 23

The legendary line of Ace Doubles ran from 1952 to 1978, with 76 books (152 titles). Philip José Farmer had two Ace Doubles, one from the early numbering period, F-165 (THE CACHE FROM OUTER SPACE / THE CELESTIAL BLUEPRINT) and ONE from the later period, 51375 (LORD OF THE TREES / THE MAD GOBLIN).

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www.pjfarmer.com @philipjosefarmer.bsky.social · Feb 20

Philip José Farmer's story "Night of Light" (F&SF June, 1957) was expanded to novel length in 1966, and famously the phrase "Purple Haze" caught Jimi Hendrix's eye. The original version of the story was collected with the rest of the Father Carmody stories in FATHER TO THE STARS (1981).

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www.pjfarmer.com @philipjosefarmer.bsky.social · Feb 17

In 1973 Farmer wrote the story, "The Unnaturals," a more adult version of THE WIZARD OF OZ told from the point of view of the scarecrow. Somewhere between an alternate history/parallel universe story, not unlike "Sail On! Sail On!" It was published for the first time in 2005 in Farmerphile #2.

www.pjfarmer.com @philipjosefarmer.bsky.social · Feb 17

In the Summer 1954 issue of the fanzine, Destiny (reprinted in Oz Story Magazine 6, September 2000), Phil's essay "The Tin Woodsman Slams the Door," is about loosing the old-time sense of wonder reading a story again when you grow up. It isn't the same story anymore when you come back years later.

www.pjfarmer.com @philipjosefarmer.bsky.social · Feb 17

A lifelong fan of the Oz books by L. Frank Baum, Philip José Farmer fulfilled a childhood dream by writing the novel A BARNSTORMER IN OZ. Published in HC (Phantasia Press) and PB (Berkley) in 1982. In an interview in the Baum Bugle (Spring 1983) he discussed Baum's influence.

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www.pjfarmer.com @philipjosefarmer.bsky.social · Feb 14

THE MAKER OF UNIVERSES is the first novel in Philip José Farmer's World of Tiers series. First published in pb in 1965 (Ace), first hc in 1980 (Phantasia Press), the most important printing might be in THE WORLD OF TIERS VOLUME 1 in 1981 (SFBC) which brought the series to a wider audience.

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