The Philip José Farmer Centennial Collection

To mark Philip Jos Farmer's 100th Birthday, Meteor House is proud to present a mammoth collection worthy of the Grand Master. With over fifty pieces spanning seven decades, The Philip Jos Farmer Centennial Collection goes far beyond the typical "best of" anthology by including classic science fiction, poems, articles, tributes, speeches, and more, all from Farmer's magic pen.

This collection boasts an introduction by Joe R. Lansdale, a foreword by Tracy Knight, and a bibliography by Zacharias L.A. Nuninga, while each decade features a synopsis of the Grand Master's life and career.

At well over 900 pages, this collection is a must for all science fiction fans and historians, and is available in trade paperback and hardcover, featuring two covers by Mark Wheatley.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction by Joe R. Lansdale

Foreword by Tracy Knight

The 1940s

Bradley Brave Sees New York

O'Brien and Obrenov

Imagination

The 1950s

The Lovers

Sail On Sail On

Sestina of the Space Rocket

Mother

Lovers and Otherwise

Attitudes

Totem and Taboo

The Tin Woodman Slams the Door

The 1960s

On a Mountain Upside Down

Uproar in Acheron

The King of the Beasts

Riverworld

The Blind Rowers

Riders of the Purple Wage

The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod

My Father the Ripper (an excerpt from A Feast Unknown)

Kickaha's Escape (an excerpt from A Private Cosmos)

The Jos s From Rio

The 1970s

Only Who Can Make a Tree

The Sliced-Crosswise-Only-On-Tuesday World

An Exclusive Interview with Lord Greystoke

Sketches Among The Ruins of My Mind

After King Kong Fell

Writing Doc's Biography

Sherlock Holmes & Sufism

The Problem of the Sore Bridge--Among Others

To the Wizard of Sci-Fi

A Fimbulwinter Introduction

Osiris on Crutches

Phonemics

The Last Rise of Nick Adams

The Freshman

Creating Artificial Worlds

The 1980s

The Making of Revelation, Part 1

Buddha Contemplates His Novel

The Long Wet Dream of Rip van Winkle

The Man Who Came for Christmas

Plane Talking (an excerpt from A Barnstormer in Oz)

The Peoria-Colored Writer

Memoir

Why and How I Became Kilgore Trout

St. Francis Kisses His Ass Goodbye

The 1990s

Evil, Be My Good

Wolf, Iron, and Moth

Why Do I Write?

A Hole in Hell

More than Most

Casting Turtles (an excerpt from Nothing Burns in Hell)

The 2000s

The Face That Launched a Thousand Eggs

Keep Your Mouth Shut

The Good of the Land

The First Robot

The Princess of Terra

That Great Spanish Author, Ernesto

The Terminalization of J. G. Ballard

The Light-Hog Incident

Bibliography by Zacharias L.A. Nuninga