Philip José FarmerOrden de los libros (cronológico)
26 de enero de 1918 – 25 de febrero de 2009
Philip José Farmer fue un autor estadounidense, reconocido principalmente por sus novelas y cuentos de ciencia ficción y fantasía. Su obra destaca por la exploración de temas sexuales y religiosos, y por su fascinación y reimaginación del folclore de héroes pulp legendarios. Ocasionalmente, también escribió obras irónicas bajo seudónimos, como si fueran escritas por personajes ficticios.
Set on New Gaul, where humanity coexists with two other intelligent species, the story explores the complex dynamics of their uneasy peace maintained by the "Skins." These devices enable communication and foster empathy among the species, but Rastignac argues that they hinder human development and promote stagnation. He believes that violence is the only path forward for humanity, challenging the status quo and raising questions about the nature of progress and conflict in a multi-species society.
Mit zwanzig seiner Schwestern soll er geschlafen haben. Und nebenbei ein Universum erschaffen, das zehn Milliarden Jahre alt ist. Dabei ist Jim Grimson erst siebzehn! Farmer macht's nicht nur möglich, sondern plausibel. Heyne 06/5911
Der fünfbändige World-of-Tiers Zyclus, hier erstmals in einem Band zusammengefaßt, gehört mit seinen atemberaubenden Verfolgungsjagden durch Raum und Zeit zu den spannendsten Science-Fiction-Serien überhaupt.
Twentieth-century scientist Ulysses Singing Bear had no idea his experiments with atomic stasis would result in a twenty-million-year journey to a world peopled by the descendants of present-day mammals. It was the world of Awina, the cat-woman who impossibly loved Ulysses. It was the planet of the mammoth continent-spanning intelligence-The Tree, whose branches touched the heavens and whose roots clasped hell-who knew that Ulysses, the newly-awakened Stone God, could destroy his reign. To enable his species to survive, Ulysses had to find a human mate. To do so, and to fulfill the single condition set by his worshippers, he had to confront The Tree. It would have been an easy task for a god, but he was only a man-and the only man at that... Originally published as an ACE paperback in 1970, The Stone God Awakens has been reprinted numerous times throughout the '70s and into the '80s, but is still one of Philip José Farmer's lesser-known works. And that is a shame because, as Danny Adams (co-author with Philip José Farmer of The City Beyond Play and Dayworld: A Hole in Wednesday) spells out in his introduction, it is "a breathless mix of adventure, intellect, and myth."
Der Weltraumwanderer ist ein Erdenmann, der eine Augenklappe, Levi´s und einen schmuddeligen grauen Pullover trägt und den Kosmos in einem chinesischen Raumschiff durchquert. Er ist ein Mann ohne Planet, der die Unsterblichkeit erlangte, als erwährend der Liebesnacht mit einer Außerirdischen ein geheimnisvolles Elixier trank. Er ist ein intergalaktischer Herumtreiber, der ständig von einem Hund, einer Eule und einem weiblichen Roboter, der auf... na was wohl ... programmiert ist, begleitet wird. Ein wirklich interessanter Bursche, der nur einen Fehler hat: Er stellt zu viele Fragen, die keiner beantworten kann. Etwa: Warum wurden wir überhaupt erschaffen, wenn wir doch nur leiden und sterben müssen?
Vor 12000 Jahren blühte im Herzen Afrikas die verqessene Hochkultur von Opar. Der junge Hadon hat sich in den blutigen Arenaspielen den Anspruch auf den Königsthron erworben. Aber intrigen der Priesterkaste haben zu seiner Verbannungaus 0par geführt. Überall stellen ihm seine Feinde nach. Hadon muß mit dem Schwert um seine Krone kämpfen, ein einsamer Krieger gegen eine ganze Stadt... Dies ist der zweite Roman Philip Farmers über die versunkene Stadt Opar, deren Ruinen Edgar Rice Burroughs für seine unsterblichen Tarzan-Romme erfand. Deutsche Enveröffentlichung
Das Ding aus einer anderen Welt/Die Irrfahrten des Mr. Green - Zwei SF-Romane in einem Band - bk989; Verlag "Das Beste"; Alan Dean Faster/Philip Jose Farmer; Paperback; 1990
Dayworld's a Philip José Farmer trilogy set in a dystopian future in which people live only a day a week. The other days they're stoned, a suspended animation. It focuses on Jeff Caird, a daybreaker: someone who lives more than a day a week. As the series progresses, he seems to suffer Dissociative Identity Disorder. The three parts are Dayworld ('85), Dayworld Rebel ('87), Dayworld Breakup ('90). Caird's a citizen of Tuesday-World New Era 1330. The book starts on D5-W1 (Day-5, Week-1) in the 2nd Month of NE1330. (Each day of the week is the same day number, i.e. Sun-Sat will still be D5-W1). The book covers a week: Tuesday-World D5-W1 to Tuesday-World D6-W1. He's an 'organic' (police officer) by profession. Each day of the week organics have different outfits. Each day of the week has a different fashion trend, tv shows, news etc, most only knowing about each in their own day. He's also an immer, a group acting beneath governmental radar. Their goal's to subtly improve government. There are immers in almost every social sector in each day of the week. He's special in that he's a daybreaker as sanctioned by the immers, used to pass messages from day to day. As a daybreaker, he's mentally created a different identity for himself for each day of the week, different jobs, friends & wives included.
Plunging into a vast, planet-spanning prison, Clive Foliott faces a fantastic world of dwarves, cyborgs and aliens beyond imagination. It is a multi-leveled collection of beings from the hidden folds of time and space. And trapped somewhere inside is Neville Foliott, Clive's twin brother.
The legendary Apeman, Lord of the Jungle and bastard son of Jack the Ripper, fights the equally legendary Doc Caliban, Man of Bronze and Champion of Justice. For the loser it will mean death for the victor not just life but immortality. Inflamed by strange passions, these titans run amok in an orgy of hate and vengeance, lust and bloodshed. A brand-new edition of the controversial novel.
In a distant future, humanity addresses overpopulation by allowing individuals to live one day a week, while the other six days they are in suspended animation.
After 800 years of exploring the stars, Space Commander Stagg had returned to Earth. But Earth had become a new world. Where science and technology had reigned, now there were agriculture and tribal warfare. And mankind worshiped the Goddess and was content. Into this New Earth came Peter Stagg. They named him "Sunhero" and worshipped him acoordingly. The secret rites were performed, and Stagg found himself setting out on a cross-country, orgiastic jaunt, with foot-high antlers throbbing on his head and endowed with the virility of a nation. Yes, Space Commander Peter Stagg was the Sunhero, king of the Earth and all its willing women. But how long he would hold his throne, only the Goddess could say...
Dieser Planet ist anders als alle anderen. Er verändert sich langsam, aber unablässig. Was fest und solide wirkt, ist in Wahrheit trügerischer Natur. Doch Kickaha muss diesen Planeten bezwingen, wenn er in die Zivilisation zurück will.
Vor keifenden Ehefrauen, rasenden Bullen und verzweifelten Gläubigern war Tom Mix auf der Erde geflohen. Er war zu Fuß geflohen, zu Pferde und in Autos. Aber diesmal war es anders. Er floh zum erstenmal mit einem Boot - und das hatte er weder auf seinem Heimatplaneten noch auf der Flußwelt je getan. Mit diesen Sätzen beginnt »Flußwelt«, ein neuer Kurzroman aus dem berühmten gleichnamigen Zyklus, dessen erster Band Philip Josä Farmer den begehrten HUGO eintrug und der in seiner Gesamtheit als SF-Ereignis ersten Ranges gefeiert wurde. »Flußwelt« ist die zentrale Erzählung des vorliegenden Sammelbandes, der Farmers Entwicklung auf dem Gebiet der Kurzgeschichte von den sechziger bis zu den achtziger Jahren dokumentiert und seine tabubrechenden Themen herausstellt. Zusammen mit dem Band »Bizarre Beziehungen« liegen nun mit »Schockvisionen« die besten Stories des Autors vor, den der amerikanische Kritiker Leslie A. Fiedler den »größten SF-Schriftsteller aller Zeiten« nannte. Enthält die Texte: Rastignac der Teufel Dschungel-Stuß-Kid im Tran Blech und Gold Vater ist im Keller Henry Miller auf Patrouillenflug Flußwelt Philip José Farmer - Eine Bibliographie von Joachim Körber & Uli Kohnle
Projeté dans un univers archaïque aux moeurs barbares, un aviateur américain va, par ses connaissances techniques... d'un autre âge, bouleverser le cours de cette guerre parallèle au milieu de laquelle il a fortuitement atterri. Et simultanément, il nous entraîne, à sa suite, vers une des « chutes » les plus extraordinaires, et les plus mémorables, de la science-fiction contemporaine !
They were known simply as the Nine - grim and ancient rulers who thirty thousand years ago had discovered the key to eternal life and ever since has secretly held the world in thrall. Once, Doc Caliban had been their servant and had shared their secrets. Now, appalled by their tyranny, he had turned against them, daring to challenge their centuries-old supremacy. Together with two henchmen whose superhuman skills match his own, Caliban sets out on the trail of the deadliest of The Nine: the mad goblin Iwaldi, the very incarnation of evil...
Die »Lords« sind Angehörige einer dekadenten, langlebigen Rasse, deren wesentlicher Zeitvertreib darin besteht, einander zu befehden und zu bekriegen. Wolff, auch Jadawin genannt, hat sich nach einem längeren Zwangsaufenthalt auf der Erde gewandelt und in Kickaha einen menschlichen Freund gewonnen. Trotzdem können es beide nicht verhindern, daß sie immer wieder in die Intrigen anderer Lords hineingezogen werden. Der vorliegende Roman schildert eine erbitterte Jagd hinter den Kulissen der irdischen Weltbühne. Es geht darum, den letzten jener Schwarzen Scheller zu vernichten, der als Angehöriger einer künstlichen Lebensform Körper anderer Wesen übernimmt. Wenn man es zuläßt, daß er sich reproduziert, wird seine Lebensform eine kaum zu überschätzende Bedrohung für Menschen und Lords ...
His journey began with the blast of a shotgun aimed at a gleaming nimbus of light. The tightening of his finger on the trigger was almost accidental; his punishment was almost merciful. But his journey has just begun, and when it is over Paul Eyre will no longer be human.
14 neue Stories von Spitzenautoren der GegenwartStories von Elizabeth A. Lynn, R.A. Lafferty, Mildred Downey Broxon, Robert Thurston, Craig Shaw Gardner, Thomas F. Monteleone, Alan Ryan, Richard A. Lupoff, Evelyn Lief, Katherine MacLean, David Drake, Jayne Tannehill, Philip Jose Farmer und Karen G. Jollie
Contents: · The Night of Light · na F&SF Jun ’57 · A Few Miles · nv F&SF Oct ’60 · Prometheus · na F&SF Mar ’61 · Father · na F&SF Jul ’55 · Attitudes · nv F&SF Oct ’53
Here are all mysteries revealed, all quests completed, in the fabulous planet of Riverworld THE MAGIC LABYRINTH is the most heralded science fiction event of recent times. It is the culminating achievement of the epoch-making Riverworld Series which has been pronounced the most daring, wide-ranging and speculative in the annals of science fiction. Here Philip José Farmer concludes the adventures of his all-star cast - Sir Richard Burton, Mark Twain, Jack London, Cyrano de Bergerac, Hermann Goering, Peter Frigate and literally everyone who has ever lived - all resurrected now along the banks of an enormous river on a mysterious planet known as Riverworld. (Source: back cover)
Er liebt ein Mädchen, das wie ein Mensch aussieht, aber kein Mensch ist. Seine Unwissenheit bringt das Mädchen in tödliche Gefahr. Philip Jose Farmers berühmtester Roman, der bei seinem Erscheinen in Amerika wie eine Bombe einschlug, weil erstmals sexuelle Beziehungen zwischen einem Menschen und einem Nichtmenschen geschildert wurden.
Fifteen billion years from now, Earth is a dying planet, its skies darkened by the ashes of burned-out galaxies, its molten core long cooled. The sunless planet is nearing the day of final gravitational collapse in the surrounding galaxy. Mutations and evolution have led to a great disparity of life-forms, while civilization has resorted to the primitive. Young Deyv of the Turtle Tribe knew nothing of his world's history or its fate. He lived only to track down the wretched Yawtl who had stolen his precious Soul Egg. Joined by other victims of the same thief - the feisty Vana and the plant-man Sloosh - the group sets off across a nightmare landscape of monster-haunted jungle and wetland. Their search leads them ultimately to the jeweled wasteland of the Shemibob, an ageless being from another star who knows Earth's end is near and holds the only key to escape.
Philip José Farmer (geb. 1918) gehört gewiss zu den interessantesten und phantasievollsten SF-Autoren der USA. Er galt als der Tabubrecher schlechthin: mit The Lovers brachte er den Sex in die so prüde SF, in Lord Tyger zeichnete er einen sexbesessenen Tarzan, vor dem keine Negerin sicher ist, in The Green Odyssey schildert er humorvoll die Abenteuer eines Raumfahrers von der Erde, der sich auf einem mittelalterlichen Planten als Hofnarr durchschlägt, um zu überleben, und mit seinem Flusswelt-Zyklus entwarf er ein Panorama, das in der SF seinesgleichen sucht, mit dem er weltweit seine Leser begeisterte und das ihm den Hugo Gernsback Award 1972 eintrug.Doch Farmer Stärke liegt eigentlich in seinen Erzählungen, in denen er ein Feuerwerk von Ideen und grotesken Einfällen entfaltet, wie man es selbst in der SF nur selten findet. In diesem Reader sind seine besten Stories vereint, die in den fünfziger, sechziger und siebziger Jahren entstanden, mit einem Vorwort von Isaac Asimov, einer Einleitung von Martin Harry Greenberg und einem Interview mit dem Autor, das Darrel Schweitzer mit ihm führte.
Milton Firebrass, once Mark Twain's enemy and now his greatest ally, plans to build a giant airship that can fly to the North Pole of Riverworld. Once there, he hopes to learn the secret of the mysterious tower that dominates the landscape and find the answer to his most urgent question: could the tower contain the Ethicals, the enigmatic beings that created Riverworld? Meanwhile, Jill Gulbirra is challenged for the job of piloting the airship by none other than Cyrano de Bergerac. As if there were not enough challenges facing the crew, they soon suspect there is an agent of the Ethicals among their number, plotting their destruction ..
In Jules Verne's "Around the World in Eighty Days," readers notice peculiar inconsistencies, such as Phileas Fogg's mysterious origins and his robotic demeanor. His lenient attitude toward Detective Fix and the unusual timing of his arrival raise questions that have been debated by many translators and editors.
The Tiers series chronicles the adventures of both Robert Wolff, a man from our world transported through space-time to a cosmos with dimensions and laws different from our own, and Kickaha the Trickster (a.k.a. Paul J. Finnegan, also from our contemporary world). Separately and together, the two heroes contend against the Lords who rule the separate universes, of which the marvelous many-leveled World of Tiers is the center. Mythological and legendary creatures and characters abound: centaurs and harpies, mermaids and Indians, aliens and beautiful women.
The Riverworld, a vast, seemingly artificial planet crisscrossed by a river valley millions of kilometers long, serves as a site of rebirth for humanity. Every human being who has walked the Earth in the last two million years finds themselves naked on the riverbank after death. However, the Riverworld is not a paradise but a hell. Power struggles and brutality abound. Those enslaved and tormented who attempt to end their miserable existence through suicide awaken the next day reborn at another point along the river. There is no escape. Yet, the Riverworld holds its own allure and unforeseen possibilities for those willing to accept the challenge of venturing to the river's sources and uncovering the secrets of the alien race capable of such grand designs. Mark Twain and John Lackland, the giant Neanderthal Joe Miller, the French adventurer Cyrano de Bergerac, and the fighter pilot Baron von Richthofen join forces to realize Mark Twain's dream: to build a great riverboat and travel upstream. A colossal task with the primitive means available, and a nearly insurmountable social and political challenge.
To Your Scattered Bodies Go is the Hugo Award-winning beginning to the story of Riverworld, Philip José Farmer's unequaled tale about life after death. When famous adventurer Sir Richard Francis Burton dies, the last thing he expects to do is awaken naked on a foreign planet along the shores of a seemingly endless river. But that's where Burton and billions of other humans (plus a few nonhumans) find themselves as the epic Riverworld saga begins. It seems that all of Earthly humanity has been resurrected on the planet, each with an indestructible container that provides three meals a day, cigarettes, alcoholic beverages, a lighter, and the odd tube of lipstick. But why? And by whom? That's what Burton and a handful of fellow adventurers are determined to discover as they construct a boat and set out in search of the river's source, thought to be millions of miles away. Although there are many hardships during the journey--including an encounter with the infamous Hermann Goring--Burton's resolve to complete his quest is strengthened by a visit from the Mysterious Stranger, a being who claims to be a renegade within the very group that created the Riverworld. The stranger tells Burton that he must make it to the river's headwaters, along with a dozen others the Stranger has selected, to help stop an evil experiment at the end of which humanity will simply be allowed to die. --Craig E. Engler
This is the tale of Ras Tyger, the jungle hero. Like Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan, he lives among the animals of the jungle and the people of his realm as a recognized lord and protector. However, as he matures into adulthood, he is increasingly tormented by questions about the inexplicable phenomena he encounters. What are the metallic birds that soar through the sky, and who are the death angels that pilot them? Who is this "God" to whom he must obey and who dominates him with omnipotence? When a beautiful girl arrives from beyond the mountains into his jungle kingdom, the struggle and search for his identity intensify. As his world gradually falls apart, the secrets begin to slowly unravel.
Contents: 7 · The Alley Man · na F&SF Jun ’59 54 · The Captain’s Daughter [“Strange Compulsion”] · na Science Fiction Plus Oct ’53 112 · The God Business · na Beyond Fantasy Fiction Mar ’54
Dank zij een bijzondere overeenkomst met de copyright-holders van twee voortreffelijke Amerkaanse science-fiction-magazines: 'Amazing' en 'Fantastic' kon uit verscheidene jaargangen het beste van het beste geput worden voor deze Zwarte-Beertjes-selectie.
Plotseling gebeurt het: de zon dooft, de oceanen drogen op, en bijna al het leven op aarder verdwijnt in het niets. En even plotseling als de nacht in de plaats komt van de dag, van Ishmael in een compleet andere wereld. Maar wat niet is verdwenen zijn de walvissen, die nu de lucht doorklieven. Achtervolgd door harpoeniers in boten, die meer vliegen dan varen...
When Robert Wolff found a strange horn in an empty house, he held the key to a different universe. To blow that horn would open up a door through space-time and permit entry to a cosmos whose dimensions and laws were not those our starry galxy knows. For that other universe was a place of tiers, world upon world piled upon each other like the landings of a sky-piercing mountain. The one to blow that horn would ascend those steps, from creation to creation, until he would come face to face with the being whose brain-child it was. But what if that maker of universes was a madman? Or an imposter? Or a super-criminal hiding from the wrath of his own superiors? The Maker of Universes is unlike any science-fiction novel you have ever read, it is wonderfully unique.
First "Tiers" novel featuring Earth-born Kickaha. Jadawin and his wife have disappeared, leaving the World of Tiers threatened by invasion and chaos. Human bodies taken over by Lord minds are pouring through uncharted gates. They seek two domination of every private cosmos, and the death of the Trickster, who knows too much.
OUT FROM THE GREEN WORLD: Humans had colonized the planets & lost its birthright. Civilization was a lonely chain of space stations linked by terror. The Empire kept the pioneers enslaved with a weapon that shattered any protest into screaming insanity.All they had left was the dream of someday returning home. Until their dream exploded in the holocaust that destroyed the Earth. But the embers of their dead planet sparked a brain-blasting revolution that sweptt the galaxy: a revolution of exiles in an alien universe-with nothing left to lose.
