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Philip José Farmer (January 26, 1918 – February 25, 2009) was an American author known for his science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories. [ 2 ] Farmer is best known for two sequences of novels, the World of Tiers (1965–93) and Riverworld (1971–83) series.
The books follow nineteenth century explorer Clive Folliot as he travels through a multilayered dungeon world attempting to find his twin brother [1] Neville. Along the way, he forms a group of similarly lost creatures and persons, and must battle the pawns and agents of the Dungeon's mysterious alien masters. The Dungeon is where beings from ...
The Book of Philip José Farmer, or the Wares of Simple Simon's Custard Pie and Space Man (1973) ISBN 0-86007-958-9 Riverworld and Other Stories (1979) ISBN 0-425-06487-5 Riverworld War: The Suppressed Fiction of Philip José Farmer (1980) (includes a condensed version of Jesus on Mars and several chapters cut from The Magic Labyrinth before ...
The Black Tower is the first book in Philip José Farmer's Dungeon series, taking place in a mysterious prison the size of a world, which holds creatures found across both time and space. [ 1 ] Reception
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The World of Tiers is a series of science fiction novels by American writer Philip José Farmer.They are set within a series of artificially constructed universes, created and ruled by decadent beings who are genetically identical to humans, but regard themselves as superior, and are the inheritors of an advanced technology they no longer understand.
Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip José Farmer was a quarterly digest-sized magazine which published fiction and non-fiction by and about science fiction and fantasy author Philip José Farmer. Over its first ten issues, the magazine serialized the first-time publication of Farmer's novel Up from the Bottomless Pit .
Hadon of Ancient Opar is a fantasy novel by American writer Philip José Farmer, first published in paperback by DAW Books in April 1974, and reprinted three times through 1983. The first British edition was published by Magnum in 1977; it was reprinted by Methuen in 1993.