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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?

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...

...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...

...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.

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 The four volumes in the series included previously unpublished material by Farmer himself as well as non-fiction about Farmer and his work and new authorized fiction by a wide range of contributors...

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...

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).

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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@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!

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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).

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 . . .

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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."

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.

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).

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

Philip José Farmer and his work have inspired four different fanzines through the decades:

The Wold Atlas (5 issues 1977-78)
Farmerage (3 issues 1978-79)
Farmerphile (15 issues 2005-09)
Farmerfan (7 issues 2018-present)

Farmerfan is free and still in production. farmerfan.com/farmerfan-is...

According to Philip José Farmer, the story "The Biological Revolt" (Science Fiction Plus, October 1953) was "rewritten without my permission and ruined." Randall Garrett backed this up in the article "The Bite of the Asp," (Stellar ? 1957, reprinted in the Worlds of PJF 1).

Philip José Farmer wrote the opening chapter of the novel NAKED CAME THE FARMER (the thirteen chapter round-robin novel benefited the Peoria Public Library).

In this photo, Farmer is signing George Scheetz's copy (George was the editor of the fanzine Farmerage).

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In 2021 Meteor House published THE MAN WHO MET TARZAN, a collection of articles, letters, and speeches Philip José Farmer wrote about Edgar Rice Burroughs and Tarzan. FarmerCon XVI was virtual that year, and featured a panel discussing the book. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9BB...

Philip José Farmer's first published science fiction story, "The Lovers," (Startling Stories, August 1952). It was expanded to novel length and published in paperback in 1961, then revised and published in hardcover in 1979. Worldwide it has been published over seventy times in twenty countries.