About me:

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While the webmaster for my website also runs this myspace page, I do read the comments that are left and he does forward to me any messages that are sent.

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You can read about my life on the timeline page of my website (hey 'webmaster' that page hasn't been updated in a while!).

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Books forthcoming and available for preorder:

The Other in the Mirror

From the publisher:

The Other in the Mirror
By Philip Jose Farmer
(preorder--to be published in early 2009)

Dust jacket by Bob Eggleton

ISBN: 978-1-59606-231-3
Length: 496 pages

Lettered: $300
Limited: $125
Trade: $45

The Other in the Mirror brings together three classic novels by Philip José Farmer: Fire and the Night, Jesus on Mars, and Night of Light. All three are united by one of SF’s central tropes, that of The Other.

Fire and the Night is a mainstream novel so rare that even many of Farmer’s most dedicated fans have never read it. First published in 1962, it is also one of the author’s most daring works, exploring the issue of racial Otherness in a mesmerizing tale of temptation and entrapment in a small industrial Midwestern town.

In Jesus on Mars, Richard Orme and the crew of the Barsoom embark on the first manned mission to the Red Planet, intent on investigating what seemed to be evidence of life beamed back to Earth by a robotic survey satellite. But Orme discovers in the hollowed-out Martian caverns what he and the scientists back home least expect: a group of aliens, as well as humans transplanted from first century A.D. Earth, led by a being who claims to be Jesus of Nazareth Himself. Soon Orme and his crew are shocked to find that The Other they face is made all that more alien because of its similarity to humanity’s past.

Night of Light is not only one of Farmer’s most psychologically gripping SF tales, it is also the novel which inspired Jimi Hendrix’s psychedelic rock classic “Purple Haze.” John Carmody is a fugitive from Earth, condemned to exile for brutally murdering his wife. Hired by the galactic Church on a mission to squelch a burgeoning rival religion, Carmody must take the Chance on the planet Dante’s Joy and risk his worst nightmares becoming reality. But that’s not the worst of it: the Fathers of Algul and the Fathers of Yess have their own plans for the conscienceless Carmody—for to the inhabitants of Dante’s Joy, Carmody himself is The Other...and they need his alien flesh to give birth to God.

Lettered: 26 signed leatherbound copies, housed in a custom traycase
Limited: 125 signed numbered copies, slipcased
Trade: fully cloth bound hardcover edition

Preorder now from Subterranean Press.

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The Evil in Pemberley House
By Philip Jose Farmer and Win Scott Eckert
(preorder--to be published in September)

Dust jacket by Glenn Orbik

Trade: $40
ISBN: 978-1-59606-249-8

Limited: $60

Length: 216 pages

For over thirty years, readers have marveled at Philip José Farmer’s inventive integration of popular fiction and literature’s most beloved characters, in a mythical web known as the Wold Newton Family. First described in the fictional biographies Tarzan Alive: The Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life, Farmer expanded his Wold Newton mythos in novels such as The Other Log of Phileas Fogg, The Adventure of the Peerless Peer, Time’s Last Gift, Hadon of Ancient Opar, Flight to Opar, The Dark Heart of Time: A Tarzan Novel, and Escape from Loki: Doc Savage’s First Adventure.

The Evil in Pemberley House, an addition to the Wold Newton cycle, plays with the Gothic horror tradition. Patricia Wildman, the daughter of the world-renowned adventurer and crimefighter of the 1930s and ’40s, Dr. James Clarke “Doc” Wildman, is all alone in the world when she inherits the family estate in Derbyshire, England—old, dark, and supposedly haunted.

But Farmer, characteristically, turns convention on its ear. Is the ghost real, or a clever sham? In Patricia Wildman, Farmer creates an introspective character who struggles to reconcile the supernatural with her rational scientific upbringing, while also attempting to work through unresolved feelings about her late parents. He sets the action at Pemberley from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and ingrains the various mysteries in the Canon of the Sherlock Holmes stories.

The Evil in Pemberley House is a darkly erotic novel with broad appeal to readers of pulp and popular literature, particularly followers of Doc Savage, Sherlockians, and fans of Farmer’s own celebrated Wold Newton Family.

The Limited Edition of The Evil in Pemberley House will come with an exclusive chapbook of bonus materials that includes Philip José Farmer’s original outline for the novel, as well as an extensive family tree for the Wold Newton Universe.

Limited: 200 numbered copies, signed by Win Scott Eckert, with bonus chapbook
Trade: Fully cloth bound hardcover edition

Preorder now from Subterranean Press.

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Coming soon from MonkeyBrain Books:

Two Hawks from Earth

From the publisher:

In this classic of alternate history by grand master Philip José Farmer, Native American bomber pilot Roger Two Hawks bails out over enemy territory in WWII, only to find himself on another Earth--one in which the American continents never rose from the waters, and the ancestors of the American Indians remained in Asia and Europe--an Earth embroiled in a world war of its own, with Two Hawks caught in the middle.

Preorder Two Hawks from Earth

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These are some of my books that are currently in print:

Strange Relations (includes The Lovers and Flesh)
The Unreasoning Mask
Image of the Beast
Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke
Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe
Pearls from Peoria

The Riverworld Series:

1) To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Winner of 1968 Hugo Award for Best Novel)
2) The Fabulous Riverboat
3) The Dark Design
4) The Magic Labyrinth
5) Gods of Riverworld

The World of Tiers Series:

The World of Tiers, Volume 1
The World of Tiers, Volume 2

Recently released:

The City Beyond Play with Danny Adams

Venus on the Half-Shell and Others