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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 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.
An examination of Farmer's notes relating to the Khokarsa series has indicated that he also drew on classical sources to create his fictional civilization, such as Robert Graves' The White Goddess (which inspired the matriarchal basis of Khokarsan culture), Jessie Weston's classic Arthurian study From Ritual to Romance (whose "freeing of the ...
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 .
The Other Log of Phileas Fogg is a science fiction novel written by American author Philip José Farmer in 1973. [1] Reviving the Phileas Fogg character created by Jules Verne, the novel has also been classified as steampunk and a parallel novel. [2]