Winner of the Annual
Playboy Editorial Award (1978).
A preliminary form of this story that didn't work out, is published in Farmerphile Issue No. 13 (July 2008). Published are an outline and some thoughts. See here.
DESCRIPTION:
A very funny
story about an old fighter pilot –Henry Miller– in
a nursery home, who uses at night his 'biplane' to land on some of the
ladies, still sleeping or faking to be asleep. Something
the head night nurse –the Bloody Baroness– doesn't
like at all. The old Fokker has to be catched...
Philip José Farmer in his foreword: «This story is not
science-fiction, though in its preliminary form it was. But the story
didn't work out, so I put it aside and let it ripen –some
might say fester– in my unconscious. Eventually, the good old
hindbrain, or
whatever it is that holds the unconscious, came up with an entirely new
concept. And this said that the story should take place in modern
times. This also said that the story wouldn't be science-fiction.
In my thinking, however, it could be classed as fantasy. Or perhaps a
better label would be the psychology of fantasy.
Whatever the classification of this work, I had a lot of fun writing
it. From the mail which the Playboy
editors received, the readers also enjoyed it very much. Some of these
were from patients, attendants, and doctors in what are euphemistically
called 'nursing homes'.»
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FIRST PUBLICATION
in Playboy
Hugh M. Hefner
Chicago, Il: Playboy Enterprises, Inc.
Vol. 24, No. 12
magazine (27,5×21cm)
December 1977
374
$ 2.25
Arny Freytag
Story illustrated by Warren Linn.
Arny Freytag
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in Riverworld
and other Stories
New York, NY: Berkley Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-425-04208-1
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
11/1979 (1st)
not dated [= -/1980] (2nd)
264
$ 2.25
uncredited [= Don Ivan Punchatz]
With a foreword
to the story by Farmer.
Don
Ivan Punchatz
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in Riverworld
and other Stories
Boston, MA: Gregg Press
The Gregg Press Science Fiction Series
ISBN 0-8398-2618-4
hardcover [no dustjacket] (21×14cm)
01/1981
xiv + 264
$ 15.95
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in Riverworld
and other Stories
New York, NY: Berkley Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-425-04208-1
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
02/1981 (3rd)
04/1981 (4th)
09/1981 (5th)
unknown (6th)
264
$ 2.25
uncredited [= Don Ivan Punchatz]
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to the story by Farmer.
Don
Ivan Punchatz
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in The Best From Playboy
Hugh M. Hefner
Chicago, Il: Playboy Press
Number Nine
magazine (27,5×20,5cm)
-/1982
144
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Story illustrated by Warren Linn.
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in Riverworld
and other Stories
New York, NY: Berkley Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-425-06487-5
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
04/1983 (7th)
10/1983 (8th)
01/1984 (9th)
264
$ 2.75
uncredited [= Don Ivan Punchatz]
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to the story by Farmer.
Don
Ivan Punchatz
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in Riverworld
and other Stories
New York, NY: Ace Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-441-72886-3
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
11/1987
264
$ 3.50
uncredited [= Don Ivan Punchatz]
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Don
Ivan Punchatz
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in The
Best of Philip José Farmer
Dorman T. Skindler
Burton, MI: Subterranean Press
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ISBN 1-59606-036-0
hardcover (23,5×16cm)
02/2006 (trade)
03/2006 (numbered, signed, in slipcase)
04/2006 (lettered, signed, in traycase}
572
$ 38.00 | $ 175.00 | $ 300.00
Michael Komark
Book published in three different editions. With an illustration by
Keith Howell.
Michael Komark
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in Riverworld and other Stories
New York, NY: Open Road Integrated Media
ISBN 978-1-5040-4609-1
ebook
08/2017
(381)
$ 6.77
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UK
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in Riverworld
and other Stories
St Albans, Herts: Granada /
Panther Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-586-05379-4
paperback (18×11cm)
02/1981 (1st)
303
£ 1.50
Bruce Pennington
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Bruce
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in Riverworld
and other Stories
London: Grafton Books
Panther Science Fiction
ISBN 0-586-05379-4
paperback (18×11cm)
12/1986 (2nd)
303
£ 2.50
Bruce Pennington
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Bruce
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in Riverworld
and other Stories
London: Grafton Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-586-05379-4
paperback (18×11cm)
-/1988 (3rd)
303
£ 2.95
Bruce Pennington
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Bruce
Pennington
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in Riverworld
and other Stories
London: Grafton Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-586-05379-4
paperback (18×11cm)
not dated [= -/1989] (4th)
303
£ 3.50
Bruce Pennington
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Bruce
Pennington
FRANCE
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French: "Patrouille de l'aube"
in Proxima
Alain Garguir
Lille: Andromède
No. 6
magazine (21×15cm)
05/1985 (2nd trimester 1985)
168
FF 33
Hervé Gadras
Patrick Marcel
With an introduction by Hervé Gadras, and an illustration by
François Boucq. This issue also includes part 2 of an essay about Farmer, by Ludovic Nowak.
Patrick
Marcel
GERMANY
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German: "Der letzte Flug des
alten Adlers"
in Playboy
Andreas Millies
München: Heinrich Bauer Verlag
Nr. 12
magazine (28×21cm)
December 1977
262
DM 6,00
uncredited [= Dieter Herbert]
uncredited
Story illustrated by Warren Linn. Published as by 'José Farmer'.
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German: "Der letzte Flug des
alten Adlers"
in Playboy Story 8
not credited
München: Moewig
Playboy, Band 6411
ISBN 3-8118-6411-4
paperback (18×12,5cm)
-/1980
160
DM 5,80
Dieter Herbert
Ellsworth
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Ellsworth
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German: "Der letzte Flug des
alten Adlers"
in 10 Jahre Playboy
Franz Spelman
Rastatt: Moewig
Playboy, Band 6625
ISBN 3-8118-6625-7
paperback (18×12,5cm)
-/1982
303
DM 7,80
uncredited [= Dieter Herbert]
Otto R. Weisser
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Otto
R. Weisser
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German: "Henry Miller auf
Patrouillenflug"
in Schockvisionen
Werner Fuchs
München: Knaur
Science Fiction, Band 5779
ISBN 3-426-05779-4
paperback (18×11,5cm)
07/1984
254
DM 6,80
Rainer Schmidt
Peter Goodfellow
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Peter
Goodfellow
GREECE
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Greek:
"Η Πρωινη
Περιπολος
του
Χενρι
Μιλερ"
"I Proini Peripolos tou Chenri Miler"
in Ανθολογία
Επιστημονικής
Φαντασίας:
Ερωτικές
Ιστορίες,
Τόμος 4
in Anthología Epistimonikís Fantasías: Erotikés Istoríes, Tómos 4
Makis Panorios
Athens: Komitis Ανθολογία
Επιστημονικής
Φαντασίας 4
no ISBN
paperback (16,5×11cm)
-/1990
258
Dr 700
Panagiotis Skagiannis
Boris Vallejo
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Boris
Vallejo
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Spanish: "La patrulla del
amanecer de Henry Miller"
in El
Mundo del Rio y otras historias
Barcelona: Ultramar
Bolsillo B-75, Ciencia Ficcion-12
ISBN 84-7386-353-4
paperback (17,5×11,5cm)
10/1984 (1st)
03/1989 (2nd)
329
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Garcés/Castells
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