| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9781596061422 | | Publisher: Subterranean Press | | Publish Date: 3/1/2008 | | Buy.com Sku: 205539149 | | Item#: | | Dimensions (in Inches) 9H x 6L x 1T | | Pages: 323 |
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| | | Venus on the Half-Shell and Others collects for the first time the best of the best from Philip Jos? Farmer's scintillating "fictional-author period." In the mid-1970s a fever-pitched furor was created when an actual novel purported to be by Kilgore Trout -- the sadsack science fiction writer who appears as a character in the works of Kurt Vonnegut -- materialized on the bookracks, complete with a mysterious back cover photo of the author looking like a bearded vagabond sage. Debate raged as to who had truly written Venus on the Half-Shell. Was it Vonnegut himself, or perhaps Theodore Sturgeon, rumored to have been the inspiration for Trout? Or did Kilgore Trout really exist? Just as one respected newspaper published an article "proving" that Vonnegut had written the book, the Hugo Award-winning science fiction author Philip Jose Farmer announced he was the true author. The controversial Kilgore Trout episode was neither the first nor the last time Farmer would impishly slip out of h
| Author Bio| Philip Jose Farmer | | Though Philip Jose Farmer didn't begin to publish stories until much later than most other science fiction authors, when he did, he made a huge splash. A part-time student, Farmer graduated in 1950 from Bradley University with a B.A. in creative writing. He worked odd jobs for several years before he became technical writer, and eventually a freelance writer. In 1952, when he was 34, Farmer's story "The Lovers," after being rejected by two major SF publishers, earned him a Hugo Award as Best New Author. The story sharply divided the SF community at the time, being the first science fiction story to incorporate explicit sexual references into its narrative. Following this calling card, Farmer continued to make innovations in the genre, like the 1968 Hugo Award-winner "Riders of the Purple Wage." His masterpiece, 1971's TO YOUR SCATTERED BODIES GO, is the first novel in his Riverworld series. Based on an earlier novel that had been lost when its publisher went bankrupt, the novel won the 1972 Hugo--Farmer's third. Its fascinating premise is that every person who has ever lived is suddenly reborn along the shores of an alien river. As a fan of the original pulp science fiction magazines, Farmer wrote novels in the Tarzan and Doc Savage series. His VENUS ON THE HALF SHELL was written under the pseudonym Kilgore Trout, a recurring character in Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s fiction. He was awarded the honor of Grand Master at the 2000 Nebula Awards and the Life Achievement Award at the 2000 World Fantasy Award. He wrote horror, fantasy, and mysteries in addition to science fiction. Farmer died in his sleep in 2009. |
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