Philip José Farmer (1918–2009)
Autore di To Your Scattered Bodies Go
Sull'Autore
Philip José Farmer was born in North Terre Haute, Indiana on January 26, 1918. He worked in a steel mill while attending Bradley University at night and writing in his spare time. In 1952, his story The Lovers, in which a human has sex with an alien, was published in a pulp magazine called mostra altro Startling Stories and won him the Hugo Award in 1953 for most promising new author. He quit his job to become a full-time writer, but a string of misfortunes eventually forced him to take jobs as a manual laborer. He worked as a technical writer from 1956 to 1970, but continued writing science fiction. He finally found success in the 1960's with the Riverworld series. He wrote more than 75 books throughout his lifetime including the Dayworld series and the World of Tiers series. He also wrote short stories. He won the Hugo award for best novella in 1968 for Riders of the Purple Wage and for best novel in 1972 for To Your Scattered Bodies Go. In 1988, he was the recipient of the Writers of the Past Award and the Nova for best book for Riverworld. In 2001 he was awarded the Grand Master Award and the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award. He died on February 25, 2009 at the age of 91. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Serie
Opere di Philip José Farmer
Lord Tyger, Gli anni del precursore, L'inferno a rovescio, Doc Savage:una biografia apocalittica (1970) 306 copie
The World of Tiers, Volume 1 (Maker of Universes, Gates of Creation, Private Cosmos) (1986) 245 copie
The World of Tiers, Volume 2 (Lavalite World, Behind the Walls of Terra, More than Fire) (1997) 121 copie
The World of Tiers, Volume 2 (A Private Cosmos, Behind the Walls of Terra, The Lavalite World) (1977) 106 copie
Riverworld Series 1-4 (To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Fabulous Riverboat, Dark Design, Magic Labyrinth) (1971) 33 copie
The World of Tiers, Volume 2 (Behind the Walls of Terra, The Lavalite World, Red Orc’s Rage, More Than Fire) (2017) 16 copie
The Lovers * Dark Is the Sun * Riders of the Purple Wage: Three Powerful Science Fiction Classics (2017) 15 copie
Sail On! Sail On! 8 copie
Notte di Luce 8 copie
Unterwegs in die Welt von morgen: Das Ding aus einer anderen Welt / Die Irrfahrten des Mr. Green (1990) 8 copie
Desígnio negro - 2 5 copie
Riverworld Series 1-6 (To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Fabulous Riverboat, Dark Design, Magic Labyrinth, Gods of… (1983) 5 copie
Desígnio negro - 1 4 copie
Strade senza uscita — Autore — 4 copie
The King of the Beasts 4 copie
L'ombra dello spazio 4 copie
The God Business [novella] 4 copie
O labirinto mágico - 3 3 copie
O labirinto mágico 3 copie
Farmer, Phillip Jose 3 copie
O labirinto mágico - 2 3 copie
A Scarletin Study [novelette] 3 copie
O labirinto mágico - 1 3 copie
World of Tiers, The: Volume 2 2 copie
Heel 2 copie
Three Powerful Science Fiction Classics: The Lovers, Dark Is the Sun, and Riders of the Purple Wage 2 copie
Regresso ao Mundo do Rio 1 2 copie
The Biological Revolt 2 copie
Toward The Beloved City 2 copie
Il fiume della vita 2 copie
Savage Shadow 2 copie
Nobody’s Perfect [short story] 2 copie
Uproar In Acheron 2 copie
Regresso ao Mundo do Rio 2 2 copie
The World of Tiers Volume One: The Maker of Universes, The Gates of Creation, and A Private Cosmos 2 copie
The Volcano [short story] 2 copie
Farmerphile #1 (July 2005) 2 copie
Monolog [short story] 2 copie
The Black Tower 2 copie
Planul Misterios 1 copia
Lord of the Trees 1 copia
Amor no cosmos 1 copia
Beyond the Walls of Terra 1 copia
O Labirinto Mágico I Livro 3 1 copia
A Barnstormer in Oz 1 copia
Dare 1 copia
Dark is the Sun 1 copia
Dayworld Rebel 1 copia
Flight to Opar 1 copia
Greatheart Silver 1 copia
The Lavalite World 1 copia
Labirintul Magic 1 copia
Inside Outside 1 copia
Universos paralelos 1 copia
The Gates of Creation 1 copia
O Labirinto Mágico II Livro 3 1 copia
O Labirinto Mágico III Livro 3 1 copia
Universos Paralelos Livro 1 1 copia
Zeii Lumii Fluviului 1 copia
Vasul Miraculos 1 copia
Autograph, (S.F. Writer), Typescript for "Rip Van Winkle's Plurial Dream," with cut Signature 1 copia
Down in the Black Gang 1 copia
Riverworld: Il mondo del fiume 1 copia
Un amore a Siddo 1 copia
Il sistema Dayworld 1 copia
The Unreasononing Mask 1 copia
The Twinkled Like Jewels 1 copia
Pianeta d'aria (Urania) 1 copia
Oi Erastes 1 copia
The World of Tiers: Volume Two. A Private Cosmos; Behind the Walls of Terra; The Lavalite World. 1 copia
After the Apocalyptic War 1 copia
Poarta 1 copia
Il grande disegno 1 copia
Il mondo di lavalite 1 copia
Ένας ιδιωτικός κόσμος 1 copia
Ο δημιουργός των κόσμων 1 copia
Hadon of Ancient Opar 1 copia
Nueva dimensión 62 (especial) 1 copia
O Construtor de Universos 1 copia
1973 1 copia
Day of the Great Shout 1 copia
Rip Van Winkle's Pluvial Dream 1 copia
Hador of Ancient Opar 1 copia
The World of Tiers 2 hb 1 copia
Mundo sem morte 1 copia
The Freshman 1 copia
Strange Fantasy 1 copia
The Return of Greatheart Silver or The Secret Life of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm [Greatheart Silver] 1 copia
Spiders of the Purple Mage 1 copia
Only Who Can Make A Tree? 1 copia
The Rise Gotten [short story] 1 copia
The Last Rise Of Nick Adams 1 copia
Fundamental Issue [novelette] 1 copia
Some Fabulous Yonder [novelette] 1 copia
Hunter’s Moon [short story] 1 copia
Lord Tyger 1 copia
Viagem para além da morte 1 copia
Prometheus 1 copia
Opening the Door [short story] 1 copia
The Wounded [short story] 1 copia
The Blind Rowers [short story] 1 copia
The Night of Light [short story] 1 copia
Futuro 1 copia
Ljubavnici 1 copia
Evil, Be My Good [short story] 1 copia
Regresso ao mundo do rio - 1 1 copia
Regresso ao mundo do rio - 2 1 copia
Attitudes [short story] 1 copia
A Few Miles [short story] 1 copia
Prometheus [short story] 1 copia
O fim do tempo suspenso - vol 1 1 copia
O fim do tempo suspenso - vol 2 1 copia
Opere correlate
Dangerous Visions — Collaboratore — 1,920 copie
Worlds of Maybe : Seven Stories of Science Fiction (1970) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 78 copie
Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction, Volume 6: Neanderthals (1987) — Collaboratore — 66 copie
The Mammoth Book of New World Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1960's (The Mammoth Book Series) (1991) — Autore — 60 copie
And walk now gently through the fire, and other science fiction stories (1972) — Collaboratore — 60 copie
A Century of Science Fiction 1950-1959 : The Greatest Stories of the Decade (1996) — Collaboratore — 56 copie
Children of Infinity: Original Science Fiction Stories for Young Readers (1973) — Collaboratore — 45 copie
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1990, Vol. 79, No. 4 (1990) — Collaboratore — 18 copie
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction December 1974, Vol. 47, No. 6 (1974) — Collaboratore — 17 copie
Van Jules Verne tot Isaac Asimov de vijftig beste science fiction verhalen (1981) — Collaboratore — 15 copie
Hollywood Ghosts: Haunting, Spine-Chilling Stories from America's Film Capital (American Ghost Series) (1991) — Collaboratore — 12 copie
Special Wonder: The Anthony Boucher Memorial Anthology of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1970) — Collaboratore — 9 copie
Worlds of If Science Fiction 155, July/August 1971 (Vol. 20, No. 12) (1971) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
Once and future tales; from the Magazine of fantasy and science fiction (1968) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Monolith 003 : Almanah Znanstveno-fantasticne Knjizevnosti (Monolith, No. 003) (2000) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Den ¤elektriske myre og andre science fiction-fortællinger (1984) — Autore, alcune edizioni — 2 copie
Fantastic Universe October 1954 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Strange Fantasy #8 Spring '69 featuring Some Fabulous Yonder — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Trout, Kilgore (pseudonym)
Somers, Jonathan Swift, III (pseudonym)
Bird, Cordwainer (pseudonym) - Data di nascita
- 1918-01-26
- Data di morte
- 2009-02-25
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- North Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Syracuse, New York, USA
Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Beverly Hills, California, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA - Istruzione
- University of Missouri
Bradley Polytechnical Institute
Bradley University (B.A. | English | 1950) - Attività lavorative
- power-line worker
technical writer (defense industry)
steel mill laborer
science fiction writer - Organizzazioni
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Hugo (New SF Author or Artist ∙ 1953)
SFWA Grand Master (2000)
World Fantasy Award (Lifetime Achievement ∙ 2001) - Breve biografia
- Born in Indiana in 1918, he had to earn a very young living. He attended evening classes and obtained his BA in letters in 1950. He is now one of the great figures of American science fiction and is read all over the world. (Thanks, Google Translation)Philip José Farmer (January 26, 1918 – February 25, 2009) was an American author known for his 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 [science fiction] 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."
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Dark is the Sun by Philip José Farmer in Science Fiction Fans (Gennaio 2012)
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