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Philip José Farmer (January 26, 1918 – February 25, 2009) was an American author, principally known for his award-winning 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 group of books. These tie all 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.
Literary critic Leslie Fiedler compared Farmer to Ray Bradbury as both being "provincial American eccentrics" who "strain at the classic limits of the form," but found Farmer distinctive in that he "manages to be at once naive and sophisticated in his odd blending of theology, pornography, and adventure."
Farmer was born in North Terre Haute, Indiana. According to colleague Frederik Pohl, his middle name was in honor of an aunt, Josie. Farmer grew up in Peoria, Illinois, where he attended Peoria High School. His father was a civil engineer and a supervisor for the local power company. A voracious reader as a boy, Farmer said he resolved to become a writer in the fourth grade. He became an agnostic at the age of 14. At age 23, in 1941, he married and eventually fathered a son and a daughter. After washing out of flight training in World War II, he went to work in a local steel mill. He continued his education, however, earning a bachelor's degree in English from Bradley University in 1950.
Farmer had his first literary success when his novella The Lovers was published by Samuel Mines in Startling Stories, August 1952. It features a sexual relationship between a human and an extraterrestrial and he won the next Hugo Award as "most promising new writer" (his first of three Hugos). Thus encouraged, he quit his job to become a full-time writer, entered a publisher's contest, and promptly won the $4,000 first prize for a novel that contained the germ of his later Riverworld series. But the book was not published and Farmer did not get the money. Literary success did not translate into financial security so he left Peoria in 1956 to launch a career as a technical writer. He spent the next 14 years working in that capacity for various defense contractors, from Syracuse, New York to Los Angeles, while writing science fiction in his spare time.
He won a second Hugo for the 1967 novella Riders of the Purple Wage, a pastiche of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake as well as a satire on a futuristic, cradle-to-grave welfare state. Reinvigorated, Farmer became a full-time writer again in 1969. Upon moving back to Peoria in 1970, he entered his most prolific period, publishing 25 books in 10 years. His novel To Your Scattered Bodies Go (a reworked, previously unpublished version of the prize-winning first novel of 20 years before) won him his third Hugo in 1971. A 1975 novel, Venus on the Half-Shell, created a stir in the larger literary community and media. It purported to be written in the first person by one “Kilgore Trout,” a fictional character appearing as an underappreciated science fiction writer in several of Kurt Vonnegut’s novels. The escapade did not please Vonnegut when some reviewers not only concluded that it had been written by Vonnegut himself, but that it was a worthy addition to his works. Farmer did have permission from Vonnegut to write the book, though Vonnegut later said he regretted giving permission.
Farmer had both critical champions and detractors. Leslie Fiedler proclaimed him "the greatest science fiction writer ever" and lauded his approach to storytelling as a “gargantuan lust to swallow down the whole cosmos, past, present and to come, and to spew it out again.” Isaac Asimov praised Farmer as an "excellent science fiction writer; in fact, a far more skillful writer than I am...." But Christopher Lehmann-Haupt dismissed him in The New York Times in 1972 as "a humdrum toiler in the fields of science fiction."
In 2001 Farmer won the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement and the Science Fiction Writers of America made him its 19th SFWA Grand Master in 2001.
Farmer died on February 25, 2009. At the time of his death, he and his wife Bette had two children, six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Farmer's work often handles sexual themes; some early works were notable for their ground-breaking introduction of such to science fiction literature. His first (with one minor exception) published science fiction story, the novella The Lovers, earned him the Hugo Award for "most promising new writer" in 1953, and is critically recognized as the story that broke the taboo on sex in science fiction. It instantly put Farmer on the literary map. The short story collection Strange Relations (1960) was a notable event in the genre. He was one of three persons to whom Robert A. Heinlein dedicated Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), a novel which explored sexual freedom as one of its primary themes. Moreover, Fire and the Night (1962) is a mainstream novel about an interracial romance; it features sociological and psychosexual twists. In Night of Light (1966), he devised an alien race where aliens have only one mother but several fathers, perhaps because of an unusual or untenable physical position that cannot be reached or continued by two individuals acting alone. Both Image of the Beast and the sequel Blown from 1968–1969 explore group sex, interplanetary travel, and interplay between fictional figures like Childe Harold and real people like Forry Ackerman. In the World of Tiers series he explores Oedipal themes.
His work also sometimes contains religious themes. Jesus shows up as a character in both the Riverworld series (in the novelette "Riverworld" but not in the novels, except for the mentioning of him dying early in The Magic Labyrinth) and Jesus on Mars. Night of Light (1957, expanded 1966) takes the rather unholy Father John Carmody on an odyssey on an alien world where spiritual forces are made manifest in the material world. In Flesh (1960) astronauts return to an Earth 800 years in their future dominated by a pagan Goddess-worshiping religion. Other examples include the short stories "J.C. on the Dude Ranch," "The God Business," "The Making of Revelation, Part I," and the novels Inside, Outside (1964) (which may or may not be set in Hell) and Traitor to the Living (1973), among many others.
Farmer wrote Venus on the Half-Shell (1975) under the name Kilgore Trout, a fictional author who appears in the works of Kurt Vonnegut. He had planned to write more of Trout's fictional books (notably Son of Jimmy Valentine), but Vonnegut put an end to those plans. Farmer's use of the pseudonym had caused confusion among many readers, who for some time assumed that Vonnegut was behind it; when the truth of Venus on the Half-Shell's authorship came out, Vonnegut was reported as being "not amused." In an issue of the semi-prozine The Alien Critic/Science Fiction Review, published by Richard E. Geis, Farmer claimed to have received an angry, obscenity-laden telephone call from Vonnegut about it. Thereafter Farmer wrote a number of pseudonymous "fictional author" stories, mostly for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. These were stories whose "authors" are characters in other stories. The first such story was "by" Jonathan Swift Somers III (invented by Farmer himself in Venus on the Half-Shell but inspired by one of the dead voices of Spoon River Anthology), and later Farmer used the "Cordwainer Bird" byline, a pseudonym invented by Harlan Ellison for film and television projects from which he wished to disassociate himself.
About author and audiobooks:
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Riverworld series
Philip Jose Farmer - To Your Scattered Bodies Go (read by Paul Hecht)
Philip Jose Farmer - The Fabulous Riverboat (read by Paul Hecht)
Philip Jose Farmer - The Dark Design (read by Paul Hecht)
Philip Jose Farmer - The Magic Labyrinth (read by Paul Hecht)
Philip Jose Farmer - The Gods Of Riverworld (read by Paul Hecht)
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http://rapidgator.net/file/f4ecc3c3c642e4e14d398698cab99906/To_Your_Scattered_Bodies_Go.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1bc14f68552600f24be2f9eb1e7ef917/The_Fabulous_Riverboat.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/194dc32fb1ec3a14880c4b4c67c1f45c/The_Dark_Design.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/396e4a55377d8f59f180ef0a34d8d257/The_Magic_Labyrinth.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/5ffac5b001df187bdbd84eaa2276aba7/The_Gods_Of_Riverworld.rar.html |
Dayworld series
Philip Jose Farmer - Dayworld (read by Simon Vance)
Philip Jose Farmer - Dayworld Rebel (read by Roy Avers)
Philip Jose Farmer - Dayworld Breakup (read by Roy Avers)
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http://rapidgator.net/file/5414b4c8960e1a48c46b14a541c51a1c/Dayworld.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/86bca75dfcff11b28819831059529b6b/Dayworld_Rebel.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/6927e6658883e6614ecddea67bcb621c/Dayworld_Breakup.rar.html |
Other novels
Philip Jose Farmer - The Green Odyssey (read by Mark Nelson)
Philip Jose Farmer - Dark Is The Sun (read by Rebecca Rogers)
Philip Jose Farmer - The Unreasoning Mask (read by David Hartley-Margolin)
Philip Jose Farmer - Escape From Loki (read by Ray Foushee)
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http://rapidgator.net/file/c62177d9413b8c848b98d92778839683/The_Green_Odyssey.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b59db0447942ee99527951d86808ea2d/Dark_Is_The_Sun.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/db1b560f02a65b97efac9834431852ea/The_Unreasoning_Mask.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/7ecf67a235d8e888981c616c7cff1156/Escape_From_Loki.rar.html |
Short Stories collections
Philip Jose Farmer - The Classic Philip Jose Farmer, 1952-1964 (read by John Stratton)
Retrieving the Lost by Isaac Asimov
Introduction by Martin H. Greenberg
Sail On! Sail On!
Mother
The God Business
The Alley Man
My Sister's Brother
The King of Beasts
Philip Jose Farmer - The Grand Adventure (read by Robert O'Keefe)
Introduction: The Peoria-Colored Writer
An Overview of the Fair
The Shadow of Space
A Bowl Bigger Than Earth
Sketches Among the Ruins of My Mind
The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World
After King Kong Fell
Totem and Taboo
The Adventure of the Three Madmen
Philip Jose Farmer - Venus On The Half-Shell And Others (read by Christopher Paul Carey)
Foreword
Introduction
Why and How I Became Kilgore Trout
Venus on the Half-Shell
The Obscure Life and Hard Times of Kilgore Trout: A Skirmish in Biography
The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod
The Problem of the Sore Bridge Among Others
The Volcano
Osiris on Crutches
The Phantom of the Sewers
A Hole in Hell
The Last Rise of Nick Adams
The Adventure of the Peerless Peer
Philip Jose Farmer as Fictional Author: A Chronological Bibliography
Philip Jose Farmer - Individual Short Stories (read by Gregg Margarite)
Rastignac the Devil
They Twinkled Like Jewels
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http://rapidgator.net/file/18332f8282b179d9d26f5b0ba59f04c4/Venus_On_The_Half-Shell_And_Others.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/e8753f013745a622eaced65583e24e45/Individual_Short_Stories.rar.html |
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