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News
& What's New - April 2015 |
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Flight
to Opar - Restored Edition |
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26 Apr
2015
Meteor
House announced a few days ago their new edition of Philip
Jose
Farmer's Flight to Opar.
The announcement reads: «Meteor House is excited to announce
the never-before-published Restored
Edition of Philip José Farmer’s classic novel Flight to Opar,
the second volume of his acclaimed Khokarsa series. This new
edition—available as both an affordable trade paperback and a
collectible limited edition hardcover—features nearly 4,000
words
that were cut from Farmer’s original manuscript when the
novel
was published in 1976. Meteor House’s Restored Edition is the
first and only publication of the novel ever to include the excised
material, which encompasses long passages of narrative, dialogue, and
rich world-building details on Ancient Opar and the civilization of
Khokarsa that readers have never previously been able to
enjoy—until now.
Meteor House’s Restored Edition of Flight to Opar
also features cover art and a frontispiece by Hugo Award-winning artist
Bob Eggleton as well as rare and previously unpublished bonus
material.»
The price for the hardcover is $30, for the trade paperback $20. See
the publisher's
website for more and ordering information.
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The
God Business |
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12 Apr
2015
 Philip Jose
Farmer's novella "The God
Business" (1954) was publihed last year as an eBook.
It was published by Fiction Hunter Press and available for $0.99 at
Amazon for the Kindle, or with Barnes & Noble for the Nook.
One of the reviewers at Amazon wrote this: "One of my All Time Favorite
short stories. Fresh, unbridled ideas, romance and sex all done with
the usual superb creativity that Farmer is famous for."
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A
story in the Sturch series |
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8 Apr
2015
 A
new solo publication of Philip José Farmer's
novella Rastignac the Devil. This
time from publisher Leopold Classic Library. Their website
is completely empty...
Amazon.com indexes this publication under 'Christian Books &
Bibles'.
It is published in a very overpriced ($10.95) chapbook. Overpriced,
especially because the story is free of copyrights, in the public
domain also. It is available as a free eBook and a free Audio Book. But
if you want a printed copy you can order this one at Amazon.
Thanks Fred for the tip!
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Books
received from Italy, Japan and China |
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6 Apr
2015
From
Japan came another few translated Phil Farmer books for my collection: 恋
人たち (The Lovers), 1980, 太
陽神降臨 (Flesh), 1978, and 淫獣の幻影
(The
Image of the Beast), 1986.
I scanned the covers and replaced the older ones with these.
The older images were found on the internet.
Also received from Italy the translation of Gods
of Riverworld (Gli dei del Fiume),
1985. And the Italian box with both volumes of the Riverworld
omnibuses, Riverworld, Il mondo del fiume
(1992). I did not know that these two volumes came in a (very large)
box.
Finally I received from China the anthology from the previous entry, 克苏鲁神话 (Cthulhu Mythos). But
I'm very confused about this one. I received two trade paperbacks, but
cannot find Farmer's story "The
Fresman" in one of them. I expected to
receive only one book. It looks like it might be a reprint of September
2014, where the publisher left out Farmer's story to publish it in 克苏鲁神话2 (Cthulhu Mythos 2) of
January 2014.
Have to search more on the internet and maybe ask a friend's wife, who
is from China, to help me out. Will be back on this one.
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| Added
Books |
One new addition
on the
book
pages this month.
 Rastignac the Devil
An overpriced chapbook with this story from Leopold Classic Library, 2015.
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| Statistics |
These are the
numbers for the book pages this month.
1827
publications
1199 different
covers
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