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The
Worlds of Philip José Farmer (3):
Portraits of a Trickster |
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Anthology
edited by Michael Croteau.
With 8 stories and 12 essays:
"Editor's Preface" by Michael Croteau
"Foreword: The Bravest Writer I Knew" by Frederik Pohl
PEORIA-COLORED WORLDS
"Missing the Wit and Creativity" by Michael Bailey
"Down in Phil Farmer’s Basement" by Steven Connelly
"Over All, After All" by Philip José Farmer
OF FRIENDSHIPS AND INFLUENCES
"The Holy Spirit of Science Fiction" by Bruce Sterling
"The Robert Traurig Letters" by Philip José Farmer &
Robert Traurig
"A Box of Influence" by Christopher J Garcia
"Wild Weird Clime" by Philip José Farmer
"To Be, or Not to Be" by Tom Wode Bellman [= Christopher Paul Carey]
WORLDS IN DISGUISE
"Trout Masque Rectifier" by Jonathan Swift Somers III [= Michael Croteau & Rhys Hughes]
"Kilgore, Kurt, and Me" by David M. Harris
"The Many
Dooms of Harold Hall" by Charlotte Corday-Marat
"Desires Denied" by Leo Queequeg Tincrowdor [= Roger Crombie]
CLASSIC WORLDS
"Osiris on
Crutches" by Philip José Farmer & Leo
Queequeg Tincrowdor
"The Genuine Imposter" by Rick Lai
"The Long Wet
Dream of Rip van Winkle" by Philip José Farmer
"Up, Out, and Over, Roger" by Philip José Farmer
EXPANDED WORLDS
"The Wild Huntsman" by Win Scott Eckert
"Dakota’s Gate" by Heidi Ruby Miller
"The Last of the Guaranys" by Octavio Aragão &
Carlos Orsi
"Trickster of the Apes" by S.M. Stirling |
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FROM
THE EDITOR'S PREFACE:
Volumes one and two of the Worlds
of Philip José Farmer series focused on
wideranging themes in Farmer's work. The volume at hand, Portraits of a Trickster,
takes a narrower look at his writing—and his own character.
For you
see, Farmer had a wry sense of humor and he was an inveterate trickster.
He often spoke of a lifelong fascination with the mythological
trickster figure ... Though many of his characters he created or
co-opted were tricksters, none of them were as slippery as Farmer
himself. Perhaps he should have been a con-man, playing out the long
con on some mark. He certainly had the patience to play tricks and wait
as long as it took for them to be discovered—sometimes
decades.
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