Philip José Farmer
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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. Farmer is best known for his sequences of novels, especially the World of Tiers (1965–93) and Riverworld (1971–83) series. He is noted for the pioneering use of sexual and religious themes in his work, his fascination for, and reworking of, the lore of celebrated pulp heroes, and occasional tongue-in-cheek pseudonymous works written as if by fictional characters. Farmer often mixed real and classic fictional characters and worlds and real and fake authors as epitomized by his Wold Newton family books, which tie classic fictional characters together as real people and blood relatives resulting from an alien conspiracy. Such works as The Other Log of Phileas Fogg (1973) and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life (1973) are early examples of literary mashup novels. Literary critic Leslie Fiedler compared Farmer to Ray Bradbury, describing both as "provincial American eccentrics" who "strain at the classic limits of the [science fiction] form," but found Farmer distinctive for his capacity "to be at once naive and sophisticated in his odd blending of theology, pornography, and adventure."
Books
Das Magische Labyrinth
Die Bewohner der Flußwelt merken, daß eine fremde, hochentwickelte Rasse mit gottähnlichen Fähigkeiten mit ihnen experimentiert. Oder ist es Gott selbst, der sich diesen grausamen Scherz erlaubt? Nein, denn die Mächte müssen sich uneins sein. Es kommt zu "Betriebsstörungen" in der Versorgung, zu Sabotageakten. Eines Tages funktioniert auch die Wiedergeburt nicht mehr.Mark Twain und seine Getreuen wollen das Rätsel lösen, das sie in dem legendären Polturm am Ursprung des Flusses vermuten. Doch bevor er mit seinem Schiff bis zur unzugänglichen Bergwelt der Polregion vordringen kann, muß er seinen Erzfeind und Gegenspieler überwinden, der ihm den Weg zum Ziel verlegt: John Lackland.Nur wenige der berühmten und taperen Männer überleben die erbitterte Auseinandersetzung und erreichen nach unsäglichen Strapazen das Ziel: die Steuerzentrale der Flußwelt...
Happy Endings
Two women--beautiful, successful Raven, still suffering from an ugly childhood, and romance writer Holly, struggling to build a new identity--cross paths as they search for love, happiness, and happy endings in Hollywood.
Dayworld
It's the 35th century where a person is given one day a week to live, work and play and the other six days remain in suspended animation. There are "daybreakers", outlaws, who live seven different lives and Jeff Caird is one of these who finds his life in danger.
The Classic Philip José Farmer
Philip Jose Farmer stories from 1952-1964.
Magic Labyrinth
In the fourth and concluding volume of the Riverworld series, literally everyone who has ever lived, including Sir Richard Burton, Mark Twain, and Herman Goering, is resurrected along the banks of an enormous river on a mysterious planet.
Image of the Beast
The story follows Herald Childe, a private detective, who is sent a snuff film of his partner being murdered by what appears to be a vampire. His investigation into the identity of the killers leads him into a world of apparent monsters who have a predilection for brutal and supernatural sex. The monsters include vampires, werewolves, snake-women, and other undefined shape-changers.