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Philip Jose Farmer

Written By: Deanna - Feb• 02•12

Novel Series

World of Tiers

Original Publications

  • The Maker of Universes
  • The Gates of Creation
  • A Private Cosmos
  • Behind the Walls of Terra
  • The Lavalite World
  • Red Orc’s Rage (Series-related but not in the main sequence)
  • More Than Fire
  • The World of Tiers Volume 1
  • The World of Tiers Volume 2
  • The World of Tiers 1
  • The World of Tiers 2
  • The World of Tiers
  • The World of Tiers Volume 2

Riverworld

  • To Your Scattered Bodies Go
  • The Fabulous Riverboat
  • The Dark Design
  • The Magic Labyrinth
  • Gods of Riverworld
  • River of Eternity (Riverworld Variant)

Herald Childe

  • Image of the Beast
  • Blown: or Sketches Among the Ruins of My Mind
  • Traitor to the Living
  • Image of the Beast

Dayworld

  • Dayworld
  • Dayworld Rebel
  • Dayworld Breakup

“Straight” Tarzan Books

  • The Adventures of the Peerless Peer – writing as John H Watson about Tarzan meeting Sherlock Holmes
  • Reissued as part of The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
  • Rewritten as “The Adventures of the Three Madmen” in The Grand Adventure collection
  • The Dark Heart of Time – Authorized by the ERB estate
  • Khokarsa

    • Time’s Last Gift
    • Hadon of Ancient Opar
    • Flight to Opar
    • The Song of Kwasin
    • Kwasin and the Bear God

    Lord Grandrith & Doc Caliban

    • A Feast Unknown
    • Lord of the Trees / The Mad Goblin
    • The Empire of the Nine

    Fictional Biographies

    • Tarzan Alive:  A Definitive  Biography of Lord Greystoke
    • The Arms of Tarzan
    • Tarzan’s Coat of Arms
    • Tarzan Lives
    • The Great Korak-Time Discrepancy
    • Extracts from the Memoirs of Lord Greystoke
  • Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life
  • Other Novels

    • The Green Odyssey
    • Flesh
    • A Woman a Day – (also The Day of Timestop; expanded from Moth and Rust; connected to The Lovers)
    • The Lovers
    • Cache from Outer Space
    • Fire and the Night
    • Inside Outside
    • Tongues of the Moon
    • Dare
    • The Gate of Time
    • Night of Light
    • Lord Tyger
    • Love Song
    • The Stone God Awakens
    • The Wind Whales of Ishmael
    • The Other Log of Phileas Fogg
    • Venus on the Half-Shell
    • Ironcastle
    • Jesus on Mars
    • Dark Is the Sun
    • The Unreasoning Mask
    • Stations of the Nightmare
    • Greatheart Silver
    • A Barnstormer in Oz
    • Escape From Loki
    • Nothing Burns in Hell
    • Up From the Bottomless Pit

    Co-authored Novels

    • The Caterpillar’s Question (with Piers Anthony)
    • Naked Came the Farmer (with Nancy Atherton, Terry Bibo, Steven Burgauer, Dorothy Cannell, David Everson, Joseph Flynn, Julie Kistler, Jerry Kein, Bill Knight, Tracy Knight, Garry Moore and Joel Steinfeldt)
    • The City Beyond Play (with Danny Adams)
    • The Evil in Pemberley House (with Scott Eckert)

    Collections

    • Strange Relations (collects “Mother”, “Daughter”, “Father”, “Son”, “My Sister’s Brother”)
    • The Alley God
    • The Celestial Blueprint: And Other Stories
    • Down in the Black Gang
    • The Book of Philip Jose Farmer, or the Wares of Simple Simon’s Custard Pie and Space Man
    • Riverworld and Other Stories
    • Riverworld War:  The Suppressed Fiction of Philip Jose Farmer
    • The Cache
    • Father to the Stars
    • The Purple Book
    • The Classic Philip Jose Farmer, 1952-1964
    • The Classic Philip Jose Farmer, 1964-1973
    • The Grand Adventure
    • Riders of the Purple Wage
    • Myths for the Modern Age: Philip Jose Farmer’s World Newton Universe
    • The Best of Philip Jose Farmer
    • Strange Relations (Omnibus of The Lovers, Flesh, and the collection Strange Relations)
    • Pearls of Peoria
    • Up from the Bottomless Pit and Other Stories
    • Venus on the Half-Shell and Others
    • The Other in the Mirror
    • The Worlds of Philip Jose Farmer 1: Protean Dimensions
    • Up the Bright River
    • The Worlds of Philip Jose Farmer 2: Of Dust and Soul
    • Gods of Opar: Tales of Lost Khokarsa

    Short Stories and Novellas

    • “O’Brien and Obrenov” (1946)
    • “Duo Miaule” (Ca. 1950s; Rediscovered/published 2008)
    • “The Lovers” (1952) (expanded to novel of same name, 1961)
    • Sail On! Sail On!” (1952)
    • “The Biological Revolt” (1953)
    • “Mother” (1953)
    • “Moth and Rust” (1953) (basis of novel, A Woman a Day (1960))
    • “Attitudes” (1953)
    • “Strange Compulsion” (1953)
    • “They Twinkled Like Jewels” (1954)
    • “Daughter” (1954)
    • “Queen of the Deep” (1954)
    • “The God Business” (1954)
    • “Rastignac the Devil” (1954)
    • “The Celestial Blueprint” (1954)
    • “The Wounded” (1954)
    • “Totem and Taboo” (1954)
    • “Father” (1955)
    • “The Night of Light” (1957)
    • The Alley Man” (1959)
    • “Heel” (1960)
    • “My Sister’s Brother” or “Open to Me, My Sister” (1960)
    • “A Few Miles” (1960)
    • “Prometheus” (1961)
    • “Tongues of the Moon” (1961) (expanded as novel of same name, 1964)
    • “Uproar in Acheron” (1962)
    • “How Deep the Grooves” (1963)
    • “Some Fabulous Yonder” (1963)
    • “The Blasphemers” (1964)
    • “The King of the Beasts” (1964)
    • “Day of the Great Shout” (1965)
    • “Riverworld” (1966)
    • “The Suicide Express” (1966)
    • “The Blind Rowers” (1967)
    • “A Bowl Bigger than Earth” (1967)
    • “The Felled Star (part 1)” (1967)
    • “The Felled Star (part 2)” (1967)
    • “The Shadow of Space” (1967)
    • Riders of the Purple Wage” (1967)
    • “Don’t Wash the Carats” (1968)
    • “The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod” (1968)
    • “Down in the Black Gang” (1969)
    • “The Oogenesis of Bird City” (1970)
    • “The Voice of the Sonar in my Vermiform Appendix” (1971)
    • “Brass and Gold” (1971)
    • “The Fabulous Riverboat (part 1)” (1971)
    • “The Fabulous Riverboat (part 2)” (1971)
    • “Only Who Can Make a Tree?” (1971)
    • The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World” (1971) (basis of the Dayworld series of novels)
    • “Seventy Years of Decpop” (1972)
    • “Skinburn” (1972)
    • “The Sumerian Oath” (1972)
    • “Father’s in the Basement” (1972)
    • “Toward the Beloved City” (1972)
    • “Mother Earth Wants You” (1972)
    • “Sketches Among the Ruins of My Mind” (1973)
    • “Monolog” (1973)
    • “After King Kong Fell” (1973)
    • “Opening the Door” (1973)
    • “The Two-Edged Gift” (1974)
    • “The Startouched” (1974)
    • “The Evolution of Paul Eyre” (1974)
    • “Passing On” (1975)
    • “A Scarletin Study, as Jonathan Swift Somers III” (1975)
    • “The Problem of the Sore Bridge – Among Others, as Harry Manders” (1975)
    • “Greatheart Silver” (1975)
    • “The Return of Greatheart Silver” (1975)
    • “Osiris on Crutches, as Leo Queequeg Tincrowder” (1976)
    • “The Volcano, as Paul Chapin” (1976)
    • “The Doge Whose Barque Was Worse Than His Bight, as Jonathan Swift Somers III” (1976)
    • “Fundamental Issue” (1976)
    • “The Henry Miller Dawn Patrol” (1977)
    • “Greatheart Silver in the First Command” (1977)
    • “Savage Shadow as Maxwell Grant” (1977)
    • “The Impotency of Bad Karma as Cordwainer Bird” (1977)
    • “It’s the Queen of Darkness, Pal, as Rod Keen” (1978)
    • “Freshman” (1979)
    • “The Leaser of Two Evils” (1979)
    • “J.C. on the Dude Ranch” (1979)
    • “Spiders of the Purple Mage” (1980)
    • “The Making of Revelation, Part I” (1980)
    • “The Long Wet Dream of Rip Van Winkle” (1981)
    • “The Adventure of the Three Madmen” (1984) (rewrite of The Adventure of the Peerless Peer (1974))
    • “UFO vs IRS” (1985)
    • “St. Francis Kisses His Ass Goodbye” (1989)
    • “One Down, One to Go” (1990)
    • “Evil, Be My Good” (1990)
    • “Nobody’s Perfect” (1991)
    • “Wolf, Iron and Moth” (1991)
    • “Crossing the Dark River” (1992)
    • “A Hole in Hell as Dane Helstrom” (1992)
    • “Up the Bright River” (1993)
    • “Coda” (1993)
    • “The Good of the Land” (2002)
    • “The Face that Launched a Thousand Eggs” (2005)
    • “The Unnaturals” (2005)
    • “Who Stole Stonehenge?” (2005)
    • “That Great Spanish Author, Ernesto” (2006)
    • “The Essence of the Poison” (2006)
    • “The Doll Game” (2006)
    • “Keep Your Mouth Shut” (2006)
    • “The Frames” (2007)
    • “A Spy in the U.S. of Gonococcia” (2007)
    • “A Peoria Night” (2007)
    • “The First Robot” (2008)
    • “Getting Ready to Write” (2008) (co-authored with Paul Spiteri)
    • “My Summer Husband” (2010)
    • “What I Thought I Heard” (2011)
    • “Kwasin and the Bear God” (2011) (co-authored with Christopher Paul Carey)

    Anthologies edited by Farmer

    • Mother Was A Lovely Beast: A Feral Man Anthology, Fiction And Fact About Humans Raised By Animals (1974)
    • Tales of Riverworld (1992)
    • Quest to Riverworld (1993) with uncredited co-editors Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg, and Edward E. Kramer

    [edit]Ephemera

    • “Bradley Brave Sees New York With Observing Injun Eyes—And with Knocking Knees” (1940)
    • “Lovers and Otherwise” (1953)
    • “The Tin Woodman Slams the Door” (1954)
    • “White Whales Raintrees Flying Saucers” (1954)
    • “The Golden Age and the Brass” (1956)
    • “On a Mountain Upside Down” (1960)
    • “Blueprint for Free Beer” (1967)
    • “Reap” (1968)
    • “Oft Have I Travelled” (1969)
    • “Report” (1969) – republished as “The Josés from Rio” (2006)
    • “The Affair of the Logical Lunatics” (1971)
    • “The Two Lord Ruftons” (1971)
    • “The Obscure Life and Hard Times of Kilgore Trout” (1971)
    • “A Reply to “The Red Herring”" (1971)
    • “The Lord Mountford Mystery” (1972)
    • “Writing the Biography of Doc Savage” (1973) – republished as “Writing Doc’s Biography” (1974)
    • “From Erb to Ygg” (1973)
    • “To the Wizard of Sci-Fi” (1974)
    • “The Feral Human in Mythology and Fiction” (1974)
    • “Charles L. Tanner” (1974)
    • “A Language for Opar” (1974)
    • “Some Comments” (1975) – republished as “The Source of the River” (2006)
    • “How Dinosaurs Did It” (1976)
    • “Phonemics” (1976)
    • “Philip Jose Farmer Sez…” (1976) – republished as “A Fimbulwinter Introduction” (2006)
    • “Religion and Myths” (1977)
    • “Jonathan Swift Somers III: Cosmic Traveller in a Wheelchair” (1977)
    • “The Remarkable Adventure” with Beverly Friend (1978)
    • “Creating Artificial Worlds” (1979)
    • “Riverworld War” (1980)
    • “Maps and Spasms” (1981)
    • “The Monster on Hold” (1983)
    • “L. Frank Baum” (1985)
    • “Edgar Rice Burroughs” (1985)
    • “Memoir” (1986) – republished as “IF R.I.P” (2006)
    • “Remembering VERN” (1987)
    • “The Journey” (1988)
    • “Hayy ibn Yaqzam: An Arabic Mowgli” (1994)
    • “Robert Bloch: An Appreciation” (1994)
    • “Dede Weil: An Appreciation” (2000)
    • “I Still Live!” (2006)
    • “Why Do I Write?” (2006)
    • “The Trout Letters” (2006)
    • “The Light-Hog Incident” (2007)
    • “The Rebels Unthawed” (2007)
    • “A Modest Proposal” (2007)
    • “Sherlock Holmes & Sufism—& Related Subjects” (2008)
    • “Jongor in the Wold Newton Family” (2008)
    • “Three Metafictional Proposals” (2008)
    • “Uncle Sam’s Mad Tea Party” (2008)
    • “Down to Earth’s Centre” (2008)
    • “The Weird Wild Climb” (2008)
    • “Buddha Contemplates His Novel” (2009)
    • “Resumé of Riverworld Dawn” (2009)
    • “Miadzian Journal” (2009)
    • “Time Has Its Mirages” (2009)
    • “Newly Born, Newly Dead” (2010)
    • “The Legend of Mishiwapo” (2010)
    • “A Writer’s Prayer” (2010)
    • Strangers & Brothers: Pitch to Publishers” (2011)
    • Strangers & Brothers: Francis Uquart” (2011)
    • “A Slender Tribute to a Big Man” (2011)
    • “Faith in 2097″ (2011)
    • “Mark Twain and Kurt Vonnegut versus Free Will” (2011)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Jos%C3%A9_Farmer_bibliography

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