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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 ...
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 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 Riverworld series consists of five science fiction novels (1971–1983) by American author Philip José Farmer (1918–2009). The Riverworld is an artificial, or heavily terraformed, planet where all humans (and pre-humans) who ever lived throughout history have been restored to life.
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.
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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
Farmer's interpretation was that Burroughs took the two vast inland seas of Khokarsa to be Atlantis, and that it was really Khokarsa to which he was referring. As well as Edgar Rice Burroughs, Farmer incorporated the works of Sir H. Rider Haggard into his series, even including two of Haggard's characters from Allan and the Ice-Gods in his own ...