Philip José Farmer bibliography
In a writing career spanning more than 60 years (1946–2008), American science fiction and fantasy author Philip José Farmer published almost 60 novels , over 100 short stories and novellas (many expanded or combined into novels), two "fictional biographies", and numerous essays, articles and ephemera in fan publications.[ 1]
Novel series
World of Tiers
Original publications:
The Maker of Universes ISBN 0-441-51627-0 )The Gates of Creation ISBN 0-312-85761-6 )A Private Cosmos ISBN 0-411-67953-8 )Behind the Walls of Terra (1970, ISBN 0-312-86377-2 )The Lavalite World (1977, ISBN 0-89968-401-7 )Red Orc's Rage ISBN 0-8125-0890-4 ) series-related, but not in the main sequence.More Than Fire (1993, ISBN 0-8125-1959-0 )Later compilations:
The World of Tiers Volume One (SFBC, 1991, inc Vols 1–2)The World of Tiers Volume Two (SFBC, 1991, inc Vols 3–5)World of Tiers 1 (Sphere, 1986, inc Vols 1–3)World of Tiers 2 (Sphere, 1986, inc Vols 4–5)The World of Tiers (Tor, 1996, ISBN 0-312-85761-6 , inc Vols 1–3)The World of Tiers, Volume Two (Tor, 1997, ISBN 0-312-86377-2 , inc Vols 4–6)
Herald Childe
Image of the Beast ISBN 1-902197-24-0 ) an erotic novel.Blown: or Sketches Among the Ruins of My Mind (1969, ISBN 0-586-06211-4 ) an erotic novel.[The third book in the series was never published, but it can be inferred that Herald Childe became amnesiac in it.]
Traitor to the Living ISBN 0-345-23613-0 ) non-erotic novel featuring Herald Childe.Image of the Beast (Playboy, 1979) (omnibus edition of Image of the Beast and Blown )
Secrets of the Nine
Lord Grandrith (inspired by Tarzan ) and Doc Caliban (inspired by Doc Savage ) as half-brothers involved in a world-ruling conspiracy.
("Shared Universe" Riverworld works by other authors not included.)
Novels To Your Scattered Bodies Go ISBN 0-345-41967-7 )The Fabulous Riverboat ISBN 0-345-41968-5 )The Dark Design ISBN 0-345-41969-3 )The Magic Labyrinth ISBN 0-89370-258-7 )Gods of Riverworld ISBN 0-345-41971-5 )Novelette "Riverworld" (1966; Worlds of Tomorrow [ 2] Slightly expanded version included in "Down in the Black Gang" (1971) ISBN 0-451-04805-9
Expanded (final) version included in Riverworld and Other Stories (1979) Short stories "Crossing the Dark River" (1992)[ 3]
"A Hole in Hell" (1992; as by "Dane Helstrom", but by Farmer)[ 4]
"Up the Bright River" (1993)[ 5]
"Coda" (1993)[ 6]
Tarzan Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke ISBN 0-87216-876-X ) A fictional biography which collects—and expands upon—magazine articles by Farmer: "The Arms of Tarzan" (1971), "Tarzan's Coat of Arms" (1971), "Tarzan Lives" (1972), "The Great Korak-Time Discrepancy" (1972), "An Exclusive Interview with Lord Greystoke" (1973 extract), "Extracts from the Memoirs of 'Lord Greystoke'" (1974 extract)Time's Last Gift (1972, ISBN 0-8125-1440-8 ) A novel in which a future Tarzan (using the name John Gribardsun) orchestrates time-travel research allowing him to travel to 12,000 BC.[ 7] The Adventure of the Peerless Peer ISBN 0-915230-06-2 ) Tarzan meets Sherlock Holmes, as supposedly authored by John H. Watson .
Reissued by Titan Books in 2011 (ISBN 0-85768-120-6 ) as part of The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series. It has the abbreviated title of The Peerless Peer .
Rewritten as "The Adventure of the Three Madmen"—with Mowgli replacing Tarzan—in The Grand Adventure collection (1984) The Dark Heart of Time : A Tarzan NovelISBN 0-345-42463-8 ) Authorized by the ERB estate . The antagonist is an American millionaire seeking the secret of Tarzan's immortality.
Tarzan and the Dark Heart of Time (2018 hardcover reprint)
Khokarsa
The Khokarsa Time's Last Gift ) as a supporting character using the name Sahhindar.
Doc Savage
Dayworld
Dayworld ISBN 0-399-12967-7 )Dayworld Rebel ISBN 0-441-14002-5 )Dayworld Breakup (1990, ISBN 0-8125-0889-0 )
Other novels
Co-authored novels:
The Caterpillar's Question (1992) (with Piers Anthony ) ISBN 0-441-00213-7 Naked Came The Farmer (1998) (with Nancy Atherton, Terry Bibo , Steven Burgauer , Dorothy Cannell , David Everson, Joseph Flynn, Julie Kistler, Jerry Klein, Bill Knight, Tracy Knight, Garry Moore and Joel Steinfeldt) ISBN 0-9624613-7-7 The City Beyond Play , coauthored with Danny Adams (2007) ISBN 1-905834-24-1 The Evil in Pemberley House , coauthored with Win Scott Eckert (2009), featuring the daughter of "Doc Savage" ISBN 1-59606-249-5 Dayworld: A Hole in Wednesday , coauthored with Danny Adams (2016), Dayworld trilogy prequel ISBN 1-94542-701-9
Story collections
Posthumous reprints
Short fiction
"Rastignac the Devil" was cover-featured on the March 1954 issue of Fantastic Universe "Some Fabulous Yonder" was the cover story on the April 1963 issue of Fantastic "O'Brien and Obrenov" (1946)
"Duo Miaule" (Ca. 1950s; Rediscovered/published 2008)
The Lovers "Sail On! Sail On! " (1952)
"The Biological Revolt" (1953)
"Mother" (1953)
"Moth and Rust" (1953) (basis of novel, A Woman a Day (1960))
"Attitudes" (1953)
"Strange Compulsion" (1953)
"They Twinkled Like Jewels " (1954)
"Daughter" (1954)
"Queen of the Deep" (1954)
"The God Business" (1954)
"Rastignac the Devil " (1954)
"The Celestial Blueprint " (1954)
"The Wounded " (1954)
"Totem and Taboo" (1954)
"Father" (1955)
"The Green Odyssey " (1957)
"The Night of Light" (1957)
"The Alley Man " (1959)
"Heel " (1960)
"My Sister's Brother" or "Open to Me, My Sister" (1960)
"A Few Miles " (1960)
"Prometheus" (1961)
"Tongues of the Moon " (1961) (expanded as novel of same name, 1964)
"Uproar in Acheron" (1962)
"How Deep the Grooves " (1963)
"Some Fabulous Yonder" (1963)
"The Blasphemers" (1964)
"The King of the Beasts" (1964)
"Day of the Great Shout" (1965)[ 9]
"Riverworld" (1966)[ 10]
"The Suicide Express" (1966)[ 11]
"The Blind Rowers" (1967)
"A Bowl Bigger than Earth" (1967)
"The Felled Star (part 1)" (1967)
"The Felled Star (part 2)" (1967)
"The Shadow of Space" (1967)
"Riders of the Purple Wage " (1967)
"Don't Wash the Carats" (1968)
"The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod" (1968)
"Down in the Black Gang" (1969)
"The Oogenesis of Bird City" (1970)
"The Voice of the Sonar in my Vermiform Appendix" (1971)
"Brass and Gold" (1971)
"The Fabulous Riverboat (part 1)" (1971)
"The Fabulous Riverboat (part 2)" (1971)
"Only Who Can Make a Tree?" (1971)
"The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World " (1971) (basis of the Dayworld
"Seventy Years of Decpop" (1972)
"Skinburn" (1972)
"The Sumerian Oath" (1972)
"Father's in the Basement" (1972)
"Toward the Beloved City" (1972)
"Mother Earth Wants You" (1972)
"Sketches Among the Ruins of My Mind" (1973)
"Monolog" (1973)
"After King Kong Fell" (1973)
"Opening the Door" (1973)
"The Two-Edged Gift" (1974)
"The Startouched" (1974)
"The Evolution of Paul Eyre" (1974)
"Passing On" (1975)
"A Scarletin Study, as Jonathan Swift Somers III" (1975)
"The Problem of the Sore Bridge - Among Others, as Harry Manders" (1975)
"Greatheart Silver" (1975)
"The Return of Greatheart Silver" (1975)
"Osiris on Crutches, as Leo Queequeg Tincrowder" (1976)
"The Volcano, as Paul Chapin" (1976)
"The Doge Whose Barque Was Worse Than His Bight, as Jonathan Swift Somers III" (1976)
"Fundamental Issue" (1976)
"The Henry Miller Dawn Patrol" (1977)
"Greatheart Silver in the First Command" (1977)
"Savage Shadow as Maxwell Grant" (1977)
"The Impotency of Bad Karma as Cordwainer Bird" (1977)
"It's the Queen of Darkness, Pal, as Rod Keen" (1978)
"Freshman" (1979)
"The Leaser of Two Evils" (1979)
"J.C. on the Dude Ranch" (1979)
"Spiders of the Purple Mage" (1980)
"The Making of Revelation, Part I" (1980)
"The Long Wet Dream of Rip Van Winkle" (1981)
"The Adventure of the Three Madmen" (1984) (rewrite of The Adventure of the Peerless Peer (1974))
"UFO vs IRS" (1985)
"St. Francis Kisses His Ass Goodbye" (1989)
"One Down, One to Go" (1990)
"Evil, Be My Good" (1990)
"Nobody's Perfect" (1991)
"Wolf, Iron and Moth" (1991)
"Crossing the Dark River" (1992)
"A Hole in Hell" (1992; as "Dane Helstrom")
"Up the Bright River" (1993)
"Coda" (1993)
"The Good of the Land" (2002)
"The Face that Launched a Thousand Eggs" (2005)
"The Unnaturals" (2005)
"Who Stole Stonehenge?" (2005)
"That Great Spanish Author, Ernesto" (2006)
"The Essence of the Poison" (2006)
"The Doll Game" (2006)
"Keep Your Mouth Shut" (2006)
"The Frames" (2007)
"A Spy in the U.S. of Gonococcia" (2007)
"A Peoria Night" (2007)
"The First Robot" (2008)
"Getting Ready to Write" (2008) (co-authored with Paul Spiteri)
"My Summer Husband" (2010)
"What I Thought I Heard" (2011)
"Kwasin and the Bear God" (2011) (co-authored with Christopher Paul Carey)
Anthologies edited by Farmer
Ephemera
"Bradley Brave Sees New York With Observing Injun Eyes—And with Knocking Knees" (1940)
"Lovers and Otherwise" (1953)
"The Tin Woodman Slams the Door" (1954)
"White Whales Raintrees Flying Saucers" (1954)
"The Golden Age and the Brass" (1956)
"On a Mountain Upside Down" (1960)
"Blueprint for Free Beer" (1967)
"Reap" (1968)
"Oft Have I Travelled" (1969)
"Report" (1969) - republished as "The Josés from Rio" (2006)
"The Affair of the Logical Lunatics" (1971)
"The Two Lord Ruftons" (1971)
"The Obscure Life and Hard Times of Kilgore Trout" (1971; revised 1982)
"A Reply to "The Red Herring"" (1971)
"The Lord Mountford Mystery" (1972)
"Writing the Biography of Doc Savage" (1973) - republished as "Writing Doc's Biography" (1974)
"From Erb to Ygg" (1973)
"To the Wizard of Sci-Fi" (1974)
"The Feral Human in Mythology and Fiction" (1974)
"Charles L. Tanner" (1974)
"A Language for Opar" (1974)
"Some Comments" (1975) - republished as "The Source of the River" (2006)
"How Dinosaurs Did It" (1976)
"Phonemics" (1976)
"Philip Jose Farmer Sez ..." (1976) - republished as "A Fimbulwinter Introduction" (2006)
"Religion and Myths" (1977)
"Jonathan Swift Somers III: Cosmic Traveller in a Wheelchair" (1977)
"The Remarkable Adventure" with Beverly Friend (1978)
"Creating Artificial Worlds" (1979)
"Riverworld War" (1980)
"Maps and Spasms" (1981)
"The Monster on Hold" (1983)
"L. Frank Baum" (1985)
"Edgar Rice Burroughs" (1985)
"Memoir" (1986) - republished as "IF R.I.P" (2006)
"Remembering VERN" (1987)
"The Journey" (1988)
"Hayy ibn Yaqzam: An Arabic Mowgli" (1994)
"Robert Bloch: An Appreciation" (1994)
"Dede Weil: An Appreciation" (2000)
"I Still Live!" (2006)
"Why Do I Write?" (2006)
"The Trout Letters" (2006)
"The Light-Hog Incident" (2007)
"The Rebels Unthawed" (2007)
"A Modest Proposal" (2007)
"Sherlock Holmes & Sufism—& Related Subjects" (2008)
"Jongor in the Wold Newton Family" (2008)
"Three Metafictional Proposals" (2008)
"Uncle Sam's Mad Tea Party" (2008)
"Down to Earth's Centre" (2008)
"The Weird Wild Climb" (2008)
"Buddha Contemplates His Novel" (2009)
"Resumé of Riverworld Dawn " (2009)
"Miadzian Journal" (2009)
"Time Has Its Mirages" (2009)
"Newly Born, Newly Dead" (2010)
"The Legend of Mishiwapo" (2010)
"A Writer's Prayer" (2010)
"Strangers & Brothers : Pitch to Publishers" (2011)
"Strangers & Brothers : Francis Uquart" (2011)
"A Slender Tribute to a Big Man" (2011)
"Faith in 2097" (2011)
"Mark Twain and Kurt Vonnegut versus Free Will" (2011)
References
^ Croteau, Michael (November 10, 2009). "Philip José Farmer: Articles" . The Official Philip José Farmer Home Page . ^ The 1966 magazine version was about 12,000 words. The final "definitive" version is about 33,750 words. (See Farmer's "Forward" in Riverworld and Other Stories (1979); New York: Berkley Books, pp 3-5.) It depicts the unhappy afterlife of a completely human Jesus Christ .
^ Included in Tales of Riverworld (1992) and Up the Bright River (2010), ed. by Gary K. Wolfe.
^ Included in Tales of Riverworld (1992)
^ Included in Quest to Riverworld (1993) and Up the Bright River (2010), ed. by Gary K. Wolfe.
^ Included in Quest to Riverworld (1993) and Up the Bright River (2010), ed. by Gary K. Wolfe.
^ Nuninga, Zacharias L.A. (19 April 2010). "Opar (Khokarsa)" . Philip José Farmer: Series Listing . ^ Farmer, Philip José and Carey, Christopher Paul, "Kwasin and the Bear God" in The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 2: Of Dust and Soul , Michael Croteau, ed., Meteor House, 2011.
^ Later expanded to become Chapters 1-18 of To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971).
^ Novelette; later expanded twice (1971, 1979)
^ Sequel to "Day of the Great Shout". Later expanded to become Chapters 19-30 of To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971).
External links
Novels Other Story
Strange Relations (1960)The Alley God (1962)The Celestial Blueprint: And Other Stories (1962)Down in the Black Gang (1971)The Book of Philip José Farmer, or the Wares of Simple Simon’s Custard Pie and Space Man (1973)Riverworld and Other Stories (1979)Riverworld War: The Suppressed Fiction of Philip José Farmer (1980)The Cache (1981)Father to the Stars (1981)Stations of the Nightmare (1982)The Purple Book (1982)The Classic Philip José Farmer, 1952-1964 (1984)The Classic Philip José Farmer, 1964-1973 (1984)The Grand Adventure (1984)Riders of the Purple Wage (1992)Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe (2005)The Best of Philip José Farmer (2006)Strange Relations (2006)Pearls from Peoria (2006)Up from the Bottomless Pit and Other Stories Venus on the Half-Shell and Others The Other in the Mirror (2009)The Worlds of Philip Jose Farmer: Protean Dimensions (2010)Up the Bright River (2010)The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 2: Of Dust and Soul (2011)The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 3: Portraits of a Trickster (2012)Tales of the World Newton Universe (2013) Stories
"O'Brien and Obrenov" (1946)
"Duo Miaule" (anii 1950)
The Lovers "Sail On! Sail On! " (1952)
"The Biological Revolt" (1953)
"Mother" (1953)
"Moth and Rust" (1953)
"Attitudes" (1953)
"Strange Compulsion" (1953)
"They Twinkled Like Jewels" (1954)
"Daughter" (1954)
"Queen of the Deep" (1954)
"The God Business" (1954)
"Rastignac the Devil" (1954)
"The Celestial Blueprint" (1954)
"The Wounded" (1954)
"Totem and Taboo" (1954)
"Father" (1955)
"The Night of Light" (1957)
"The Alley Man " (1959)
"Heel" (1960)
"My Sister's Brother" (1960)
"A Few Miles" (1960)
"Prometheus" (1961)
"Tongues of the Moon" (1961)
"Uproar in Acheron" (1962)
"How Deep the Grooves" (1963)
"Some Fabulous Yonder" (1963)
"The Blasphemers" (1964)
"The King of the Beasts" (1964)
"Day of the Great Shout" (1965)
"Riverworld" (1966)
"The Suicide Express" (1966)
"The Blind Rowers" (1967)
"A Bowl Bigger than Earth" (1967)
"The Felled Star" (1967)
"The Shadow of Space" (1967)
"Riders of the Purple Wage ” (1967)
"Don't Wash the Carats" (1968)
"The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod" (1968)
"Down in the Black Gang" (1969)
"The Oogenesis of Bird City" (1970)
"The Voice of the Sonar in my Vermiform Appendix" (1971)
"Brass and Gold" (1971)
"The Fabulous Riverboat" (1971)
"Only Who Can Make a Tree?" (1971)
"The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World ” (1971)
"Seventy Years of Decpop" (1972)
"Skinburn" (1972)
"The Sumerian Oath" (1972)
"Father's in the Basement" (1972)
"Toward the Beloved City" (1972)
"Mother Earth Wants You" (1972)
"Sketches Among the Ruins of My Mind" (1973)
"Monolog" (1973)
"After King Kong Fell" (1973)
"Opening the Door" (1973)
"The Two-Edged Gift" (1974)
"The Startouched" (1974)
"The Evolution of Paul Eyre" (1974)
"Passing On" (1975)
"A Scarletin Study, as Jonathan Swift Somers III" (1975)
"The Problem of the Sore Bridge - Among Others, as Harry Manders" (1975)
"Greatheart Silver" (1975)
"The Return of Greatheart Silver" (1975)
"Osiris on Crutches, as Leo Queequeg Tincrowder" (1976)
"The Volcano, as Paul Chapin" (1976)
"The Doge Whose Barque Was Worse Than His Bight, as Jonathan Swift Somers III" (1976)
"Fundamental Issue" (1976)
"The Henry Miller Dawn Patrol" (1977)
"Greatheart Silver in the First Command" (1977)
"Savage Shadow as Maxwell Grant" (1977)
"The Impotency of Bad Karma as Cordwainer Bird" (1977)
"It's the Queen of Darkness, Pal, as Rod Keen" (1978)
"Freshman" (1979)
"The Leaser of Two Evils" (1979)
"J.C. on the Dude Ranch" (1979)
"Spiders of the Purple Mage" (1980)
"The Making of Revelation, Part I" (1980)
"The Long Wet Dream of Rip Van Winkle" (1981)
"The Adventure of the Three Madmen" (1984)
"UFO vs IRS" (1985)
"St. Francis Kisses His Ass Goodbye" (1989)
"One Down, One to Go" (1990)
"Evil, Be My Good" (1990)
"Nobody's Perfect" (1991)
"Wolf, Iron and Moth" (1991)
"Crossing the Dark River" (1992)
"A Hole in Hell" (1992)
"Up the Bright River" (1993)
"Coda" (1993)
"The Good of the Land" (2002)
"The Face that Launched a Thousand Eggs" (2005)
"The Unnaturals" (2005)
"Who Stole Stonehenge?" (2005)
"That Great Spanish Author, Ernesto" (2006)
"The Essence of the Poison" (2006)
"The Doll Game" (2006)
"Keep Your Mouth Shut" (2006)
"The Frames" (2007)
"A Spy in the U.S. of Gonococcia" (2007)
"A Peoria Night" (2007)
"The First Robot" (2008)
"Getting Ready to Write" (2008)
"My Summer Husband" (2010)
"What I Thought I Heard" (2011)
"Kwasin and the Bear God" (2011)
