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Up the Bright
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Science
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Edited by |
Gary K. Wolfe |
Sixteen stories: Attitudes,
How Deep
the Grooves, The
Blasphemers, A
Bowl
Bigger Than Earth, Down
in the Black Gang, The
Voice of the Sonar in My
Vermiform Appendix, Father’s
in the Basement, Toward
the
Beloved City, Skinburn,
The
Sumerian Oath, Extracts
from the Memoirs of
Lord Greystoke, The
Two-Edged Gift, St.
Francis Kisses His Ass
Goodbye, Crossing
the Dark River [with an "Author's Note"],
Up
the Bright River, Coda.
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COVER
TEXT:
This first posthumous collection of the short fiction of Philip
José Farmer is a celebration of the
impressive variety of his prodigious output, from the space adventures
he published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s through the
1970s, to his acerbic satires of religion and medicine, to his
fictional biographies and memoirs, to his beloved Riverworld.
Appearing for the first time in a Philip Jose Farmer collection are his
last three “Riverworld” stories—featuring
characters from his own family history--as well as the
“memoir” of Lord Greystoke which he claimed to have
merely edited. Other highlights include
“Attitudes,” the first of the Father Carmody
stories; “The Two-Edged Gift,” which introduces the
fictional science fiction writer Leo Queequeg Tincrowdor;
“Toward the Beloved City” (about which its original
editor said he had never before really understood the Book of
Revelations); and “Father’s in the
Basement,” a little-known Gothic horror tale which is also a
satire of the writing profession.
Farmer created some of the most famous worlds in science fiction, but
he also wrote in many worlds, and readers familiar only with his
best-known classics may find a few surprises among these tales.
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