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Works about
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The entries are
in alphabetical order of the writer's name.
If more than one publication is mentioned, the publication of which a
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Hagan,
Randall - "The Possible Subconscious Source of Philip José
Farmer's
Riverworld"
Followed
by "Some
Comments" by Farmer.
- Moebius
Trip Library's S.F. Echo
#22, April 1975
[Fanzine, edited by Edward C. Connor.]
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Haldeman,
Joe - "Daring to be Farmer"
A
tribute to PJF. Haldeman describes
how he became aware of PJF's writing and what he thinks of Phil as a
person:
"...He was and is an original. A gentleman who occasionally revealed
the
rogue inside...".
- Farmerphile
Issue No. 1, July 2005
[Fanzine, edited by Christopher Paul Carey
& Paul Spiteri.]
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Keith
Howell
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Haldeman,
Joe - "Philip José Farmer"
An
orbituary, about how Phil kicked science fiction more than once:
«...writing unlike anything I'd ever encountered in or out of
science fiction...».
In this issue also orbituaries by Charles
N. Brown, Gary K.
Wolfe, Christopher
Paul Carey, Mary
A. Turzillo, and Richard
A. Lupoff.
- Locus
Issue 579, Vol. 62 No. 4, April 2009
[Newszine, edited by Charles N. Brown.]
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Hansom,
Paul - "Strange Relations"
A
critical essay about the stories
in the collection Strange
Relations,
describing the plot and analyzing each story. "..The use of alien
encounters
and environments to explore complex problems of personal development
and
sexual maturity provides fantastic scenarios that have an acceptable
familiarity
about them. The stories themselves have cleverly ironic twists. Farmer
cleverly unsettles readers and interrogates accepted assumptions..".
- Magill's
Guide to Science Fiction
and Fantasy Literature, Vol.4, edited by T.A. Shippey
Salem
Press, ISBN 0-89356-910-0,
hardcover [no dustjacket], 10/1996
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Hanson,
Alan - "Farmer's Vision of Ancient Opar"
A
lengthy essay in which Hanson compares Farmer's two Opar novels, Hadon
of Ancient Opar and Flight to Opar,
with the description of Opar in the essay "Heritage of the Flaming God"
by Frank Brueckel and John Harwood. How much was Farmer inspired by
this essay? The article ends with "A letter from Philip
José Farmer on his Hadon of Opar Books", in which
Phil
answered
the many questions Hanson had.
- Heritage
of the Flaming God (An
Essay on the History of Opar and Its Relationship to Other Ancient
Cultures),
edited by Alan Hanson and Michael Winger
Waziri
Publications, no ISBN, large
paperback, 05/1999
[Limited
to 500 copies.]
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Hanson,
Alan - "Heritage of the Flaming God (A Classic Essay, Long Forgotten,
Inspired Farmer)"
The essay "Heritage of the Flaming God" - see entry above - was used by
Farmer as a source for his Opar
series.
The history of this essay, written in 1971 by Frank Brueckel and John
Harwood, and why it was published only in 1999 for the first
time in the above mentioned publication, is given in this
article.
- Farmerphile
Issue No. 5, July 2006
[Fanzine, edited by Christopher Paul Carey & Paul Spiteri.]
- The Best of Farmerphile,
edited by Michael Croteau
Meteor House, ISBN 978-1-945427-08-4, hardcover, 07/2017
Meteor House, ISBN 978-1-945427-07-7, trade paperback, 07/2017
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Keith
Howell
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Harenko,
Ari - "Philip Jose Farmer - universumien tekijä"
An
article about Farmer's life and
career, and about nearly all of his published work in books. Some of
his short fiction is also mentioned, for instance "O'Brien
and Obrenov". Both the article and the bibliography are
heavily illustrated with many book covers.
- (Finnish)
Portti,
Issue 1/1984
[Magazine, edited by Raimo Nikkonen. A
special Philip José Farmer
issue with this article, a bibliography
compiled by Raimo Nikkonen, the story "Äiti" ("Mother")
and a Farmer oriented cover illustration.]
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Harris,
David M. -"Kilgore, Kurt, and Me"
The history of an editor at Dell Books, Harris, who bought Kilgore
Trout's Venus on the Half-Shell.
For this he was in contact with Phil Farmer, and later got Kurt
Vonnegut on the line who inquired about a movie that would be made of
this book. There was no movie to come. However, there came a movie with
the title Venus on the
Halfshell (2005), but that one has nothing to do with the
novel.
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Keith
Howell |
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Heaphy,
Maura - "Philip José Farmer (1918 - )"
One hundred authors are listed in this reference work. The entry has
a
brief Biography, a list of Major Works (novels, collections and short
stories) and Research Sources (Encyclopedias and Handbooks,
Bibliographies, Biographies and Interviews, Criticism and Reader's
Guide, Web Sites). My website is mentioned with the bibliographies.
- Science
Fiction Authors: A Research Guide, by Maura Heaphy
Libraries Unlimited, ISBN 978-1-59158-515-2, trade paperback, -/2009
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Heck,
Peter - "The Riverworld Series Reconsidered"
Essay about the Riverworld
series. on the occasion of the publication of the fifth
Riverworld novel, Gods of Riverworld.
Heck: «Farmer's delight in the play of ideas, expressed in a
plot
that rarely pauses for breath, filled his enormous stage from side to
side, and gave his his cast almost as much to do as the reader's
imagination could handle.»
- Xignals
Vol II, -/1983
[Waldenbooks Otherworlds Club magazine.]
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Hodder,
Mark - "Philip José Farmer: The Liminal Writer"
Introduction, how Hodder first encountered Sir Richard Francis Burton (in Farmer's To Your Scattered Bodies Go),
that started him to read everything by and about Burton. He also writes
about the lifelong fascination by Farmer as well as Burton with all
things liminal.
Mark Hodder also chose Burton as the protagonist, in his 'Burton & Swinburne' series of novels.
- A Rough Knight for
the Queen
Meteor House, ISBN 978-1-945427-19-0, hardcover, 09/2020
Meteor House, ISBN 978-1-945427-18-3, trade paperback, 09/2020
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Charles
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Hofmann,
Armin - "Philip José Farmers fleischliche Genüsse"
Article about the publication of the German omnibus Fleisch,
with a discussion and description of the included novels: The
Image of the Beast, Blown and Flesh.
Hofmann thinks some of the scenes in the first two books rather
obscene, but he isn't in favor of censoring these novels:
«Lassen
wir die Moralisten und Kirchgänger schreien; lassen wir sie
Dreck
schleudern ob der FLEISCHlichen Genüsse Philip José
Farmers. Wir sind immer noch gegen Zensur!»
- (German)
Fandom Newsletter # 28, April 1990
[Newsletter, edited by Matthias Hofmann. The article comes with two
uncredited illustrations, one of them by Denis Sire.]
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Holm, Palle Juul - "Ædle vilde - Syge guder"
A very thorough and twenty-two pages long essay about Farmer -called
one of the most productive and controversial science fiction talents-
and his work. Many known influences in Farmer's writings are mentioned,
like Freud and Jung, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Frank
L. Baum, William Blake and others. Most of his books and stories gets
attention in this essay.
- (Danish)
Virkelige eventyr, edited
by Ole Lindboe and Svend Kreiner Møller
Spar Knægt, ISBN 87-87528-48-7, trade paperback, -/1978
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Frihioff
Johansen |
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Holm,
Palle Juul - "Philip José Farmer's forfatterskab"
Essay,
about Farmer's life and writing
career, about his books and stories. Especially written as an
introduction
to Farmer being the Guest of Honor at the next Scancon, Fabula77 in
Copenhagen,
Denmark in May 1977.
- (Danish)
Proxima
Nr. 11, March 1977
[Fanzine, edited by Erik H. Swiatek. There
is also a translated story
"Efter King Kong's fald" ("After
King
Kong Fell") by Farmer in this issue.]
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Niels
Erik Knudsen |
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Howell, Keith - "Chasing the Bronze Knight of the Running Board"
A
tribute. About his first encounters with Doc Savage and later with
Philip José Farmer. And how he came to draw his first cover
for
a Philip José Farmer book.
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Joe
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Huckenpohler, J.G. - "The
Peerless Pastiche Farmer Does Doyle and Burroughs"
Article, written under the pseudonym Archimedes Q. Porter, Ph. D.
- Farmerphile Issue No. 3, January 2006
[Fanzine, edited by Christopher Paul Carey & Paul Spiteri.]
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Charles
Berlin |
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Hughes,
Rhys - "The Voice of Farmer in My Vermiform Appendix"
Essay about how Hughes discovered the writings of PJF, what he likes in
the stories, and how Phil's work has influenced his own
writing.
Hughes: «...Farmer was really an intellectual writer who had
no
hesitation in taking inspiration from pulp forms, from comics, films
and other expressions of popular culture...»
- Farmerphile
Issue No. 14, October 2008
[Fanzine, edited by Win Scott Eckert & Paul Spiteri.]
- The Best of Farmerphile,
edited by Michael Croteau
Meteor House, ISBN 978-1-945427-08-4, hardcover, 07/2017
Meteor House, ISBN 978-1-945427-07-7, trade paperback, 07/2017
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Charles
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Huttner,
Cheryl L. - "Name of a Thousand Blue Demons"
Article.
- Myths
for the Modern Age (Philip José Farmer's
Wold Newton Universe),
edited by Win Scott Eckert
MonkeyBrain
Books, ISBN 1-932265-14-7,
trade paperback, 10/2005
- Online:
read it here
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John
Picacio
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Jakubowski,
Maxim - "Essex House: The Rise and Fall of Speculative Erotica"
An
article with a summary of the
Essex House line from publishing house Parliament News, Inc. and the 42
titles published under this line, three of which are written by PJF.
Farmer
is mentioned throughout this article and even gets his own paragraph as
one of the major contributors of Essex House: "...the editorial carte
blanche
of Essex House allowed his imagination to take full, fluent flight. It
is not always in the best of taste, but he is certainly a master of
startling
speculative concepts...".
- Foundation
#14, September 1978

[Academic Journal, edited by Malcolm Edwards.]
- Paperback
Parade #13, June 1989

[Fanzine, edited by Gary Lovisi.]
- The
Masquerade Erotic Newsletter, 1995
[Publisher's newsletter, edited by Richard Kasak.]
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Jannone, Claudia - "Venus On The Half Shell as
Structuralist
Activity"
An essay about the many levels that Venus
on the Half-Shell can be read on: "...the novel
itself is a maze of structures which reflect other structures like
mirrors...".
- Extrapolation
Vol.17 #2, May 1976
[Critical journal, edited by Thomas D. Clareson.]
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Josephsohn,
Thomas José - "Religion in the Life and Work of Philip
José Farmer" (Through the Eyes of His Grandson)
Essay in which Josephsohn tries to tackle Farmer's relationship with
religion: «...I write here about his thoughts on religion as
found in his work and life and how they influenced me...»
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Jungvogel,
Markus - "Welt ohne Tod"
As the subtitle, "Philip José Farmer und sein
Flusswelt-Zyklus",
already suggests, this article is about the Riverworld series. The
article introduces the Riverworld setting and describes the events that
take place in the five novels of the series. Jungvogel concludes that
the Riverworld books balance between a very serious work and a comedy:
"Einerseits stellen sich die Hauptfiguren ernste Fragen zu Ethik und
Religionsphilosophie, anderseits erscheint der Flusswelt-Zyklus oft wie
eine Art Satire auf das gesamte Science Fiction-Genre."
- (German)
Nautilus
Abenteuer & Phantastik Nr. 57, December 2008
[SF&F magazine, edited by Jürgen Pirner.]
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