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Michael Jackson, Walter Cronkite among arts world deaths in 2009
Philip Jose Farmer, 91. Celebrated science fiction and fantasy writer. Feb. 25. Wendy Richard, 65. British actress; working-class matriarch of "EastEnders. ... and more »
Thu, Dec 17 | from GMA News.tv
Traditionalist and libertarian themes in science fiction and fantasy: Part ...
Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber is somewhat similar to Philip Jose Farmer's World of Tiers. Another creation of Philip Jose Farmer is Riverworld – which is ...
Sun, Nov 8 | from Enter Stage Right
Exploring Wold Newton, the motherlode of popular fiction
UK The answer is an ambitious attempt to create a logical universe in which all those fictional heroes could have lived and interacted by the late author Philip José Farmer which has proved to be Nerdvana for that particular sort of reader who simply ...
Thu, May 21 | from EducationGuardian.co.uk
Stars of Battlestar Galactica and Smallville land on Riverworld
Crows Nest UK A previous Riverworld pilot movie aired on the channel in 2003, but didn't lead to a series. Riverworld is based on the books by Philip Jose Farmer about an Earth-like planet consisting of one huge river valley. Everyone who has lived on Earth up until ...
Mon, Apr 6 | from Coventry Telegraph
Science fiction writer Philip Jose Farmer dies
USA Some of his best books included the first two Riverworld novels, "To Your Scattered Bodies Go" and "The Fabulous Riverboat," his five "World of Tiers" novels, and two short story collections, "Down in the Black Gang" and "The Book of Philip Jose Farmer ...
Tue, Mar 10 | from Sandusky Register
Philip José Farmer: 1918-2009
NY The wildly inventive and passionately polemical science-fiction writer Philip José Farmer quietly expired at home, Ash Wednesday morning, at the ripe age of 91. I and many others first became aware of Farmer's work in the 1970s, shortly after the first ...
Tue, Mar 3 | from Village Voice
Enjoying the excess of glamour
GA If you thought “The Dark Knight” was grim, you haven’t seen anything yet. I could write about the death of famed science fiction author Philip José Farmer, creator of “Riverworld” and other cornerstone epics of the genre, but obituary columns rarely ...
Sat, Feb 28 | from Walton Tribune
Daily Scan for 02.26.09 - Abrams Eschews Trekkies, Whedon Disses DC
NY Philip Jose Farmer, famed scifi novelist, passed away in his sleep this morning. This is shocking to me: I just read his Tarzan "biography" a week ago. • Battlestar Galactica writer Mark Verheiden -- widely hailed as one of the most important talents ...
Thu, Feb 26 | from AMCtv.com
Philip Jose Farmer, RIP
CA It's been more than two decades since I read anything by Philip José Farmer, the venerable science fiction writer who passed away yesterday. So you'll have to take the following words of praise with a caveat that applies to all the art I enjoyed in my ...
Wed, Feb 25 | from Reason Online
RIP Philip José Farmer
The story is The Lovers and the unknown author bears the strangely exotic sounding name of Philip José Farmer. The response from readers is electric. "Letters poured into Startling Stories praising the story," says Michael Croteau, web-master of The ...
Wed, Feb 25 | from io9
Book Review: Probing jungle king's universal appeal
Book Review: Probing jungle king's universal appeal NC - Jan 24, 2009 their heroes straight (pun slightly intended) may prefer the more respectful Tarzan Alive: The Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke by Philip Jose Farmer.
Sat, Jan 24 | from Winston-Salem Journal
Books in the Mail W/E 09/28/2008
The Other in the Mirror by Philip Jose Farmer and Dustjacket by Bob Eggleton (Subterranean Press, Hardcover 3/01/2009) – I read Farmer’s Riverword novels and really enjoyed the first few quite a bit so this omnibus could be pretty cool. ...
Sat, Sep 27 | from Rob's Blog o' Stuff
Book Review: To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer.
In this book, the first part of his Riverworld series, Farmer introduces what is one of the most ambitious concepts in Science fiction. All of mankind who live to adulthood find themselves . . .
Thu, Sep 25 | from Gather
Not Free SF Reader : Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: <b>The</b> Classic <b>...</b>
When you first come across Philip Jose Farmer, you will generally pick up on the fact that you have come across something new and different, and this is even more of the case if it was a considerable time that you did so. ...
Sat, Jun 28 | from Not Free SF Reader
The Dark Design by Philip Jose Farmer [added by Pompeia]
Berkley (1978), Paperback.
Sun, May 6 | from librarything.com
Top 50 SciFi Books
I found this list of the top 50 science fiction books meme (according to the Science Fiction Book Club apparently). So I thought I’d join in. Bold is read and Italic is Reading. I found this list of the top 50 science fiction books meme (according to the Science Fiction Book Club apparently). So I...
Tue, Mar 6 | from Binary Bonsai
