Philip José Farmer bibliography

In a writing career spanning more than 60 years (1946-2008), science fiction and fantasy author Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) published almost 60 novels, over 100 short stories and novellas (many expanded or combined into novels), two “fictional biographies”, and numerous essays, articles and ephemera in fan publications.[1]

Novel series

World of Tiers

Original publications:

  1. The Maker of Universes (1965) ISBN 0-441-51627-0
  2. The Gates of Creation (1966) ISBN 0-312-85761-6
  3. A Private Cosmos (1968) ISBN 0-411-67953-8
  4. Behind the Walls of Terra (1970) ISBN 0-312-86377-2
  5. The Lavalite World (1977) ISBN 0-89968-401-7
    Red Orc's Rage (1991; series-related, but not in the main sequence) ISBN 0-8125-0890-4
  6. More Than Fire (1993) ISBN 0-8125-1959-0

Later compilations:

  • The World of Tiers Volume One (SFBC, 1991) (inc Vols 1-2)
  • The World of Tiers Volume Two (SFBC, 1991) (inc Vols 3-5)
  • World of Tiers 1 (Sphere, 1986) (inc Vols 1-3)
  • World of Tiers 2 (Sphere, 1986) (inc Vols 4-5)
  • The World of Tiers (Tor, 1996) (inc Vols 1-3) ISBN 0-312-85761-6
  • The World of Tiers, Volume Two (Tor, 1997) (inc Vols 4-6) ISBN 0-312-86377-2

Riverworld

  1. To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971) ISBN 0-345-41967-7
  2. The Fabulous Riverboat (1971) ISBN 0-345-41968-5
  3. The Dark Design (1977) ISBN 0-345-41969-3
  4. The Magic Labyrinth (1980) ISBN 0-89370-258-7
  5. Gods of Riverworld (1983) ISBN 0-345-41971-5

Herald Childe

  1. Image of the Beast (1968) (erotic novel) ISBN 1-902197-24-0
  2. Blown: or Sketches Among the Ruins of My Mind (1969) (erotic novel) ISBN 0-586-06211-4
  3. [The third book in the series was never-written, but it can be inferred that Herald Childe became amnesiac in it.]
  4. Traitor to the Living (1973) ISBN 0-345-23613-0 (non-erotic novel featuring Herald Childe)
  • Image of the Beast (Playboy, 1979) (omnibus edition of Image of the Beast and Blown)

Dayworld

  1. Dayworld (1985) ISBN 0-399-12967-7
  2. Dayworld Rebel (1987) ISBN 0-441-14002-5
  3. Dayworld Breakup (1990) ISBN 0-8125-0889-0

"Straight" Tarzan books

Khokarsa

The Khokarsa series, featuring a character named John Gribardsun (in Time's Last Gift) and Sahhindar (in Hadon of Ancient Opar and Flight to Opar), who is hinted, but never stated, to be an immortal Tarzan time-traveling from the future to before 10,000 BC.

Lord Grandrith & Doc Caliban

Alternate and renamed versions of Tarzan and Doc Savage as half-brothers involved in a world-ruling conspiracy.

Fictional biographies

Other novels

Co-authored novels:

Story collections

Short stories and novellas

  • "O'Brien and Obrenov" (1946)
  • "Duo Miaule" (Ca. 1950s; Rediscovered/published 2008)
  • "The Lovers" (1952) (expanded to novel of same name, 1961)
  • "Sail On! Sail On!" (1952)
  • "The Biological Revolt" (1953)
  • "Mother" (1953)
  • "Moth and Rust" (1953) (basis of novel, A Woman a Day (1960))
  • "Attitudes" (1953)
  • "Strange Compulsion" (1953)
  • "They Twinkled Like Jewels" (1954)
  • "Daughter" (1954)
  • "Queen of the Deep" (1954)
  • "The God Business" (1954)
  • "Rastignac the Devil" (1954)
  • "The Celestial Blueprint" (1954)
  • "The Wounded" (1954)
  • "Totem and Taboo" (1954)
  • "Father" (1955)
  • "The Night of Light" (1957)
  • "The Alley Man" (1959)
  • "Heel" (1960)
  • "My Sister's Brother" or "Open to Me, My Sister" (1960)
  • "A Few Miles" (1960)
  • "Prometheus" (1961)
  • "Tongues of the Moon" (1961) (expanded as novel of same name, 1964)
  • "Uproar in Acheron" (1962)
  • "How Deep the Grooves" (1963)
  • "Some Fabulous Yonder" (1963)
  • "The Blasphemers" (1964)
  • "The King of the Beasts" (1964)
  • "Day of the Great Shout" (1965)
  • "Riverworld" (1966)
  • "The Suicide Express" (1966)
  • "The Blind Rowers" (1967)
  • "A Bowl Bigger than Earth" (1967)
  • "The Felled Star (part 1)" (1967)
  • "The Felled Star (part 2)" (1967)
  • "The Shadow of Space" (1967)
  • "Riders of the Purple Wage" (1967)
  • "Don't Wash the Carats" (1968)
  • "The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod" (1968)
  • "Down in the Black Gang" (1969)
  • "The Oogenesis of Bird City" (1970)
  • "The Voice of the Sonar in my Vermiform Appendix" (1971)
  • "Brass and Gold" (1971)
  • "The Fabulous Riverboat (part 1)" (1971)
  • "The Fabulous Riverboat (part 2)" (1971)
  • "Only Who Can Make a Tree?" (1971)
  • "The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World" (1971) (basis of the Dayworld series of novels)
  • "Seventy Years of Decpop" (1972)
  • "Skinburn" (1972)
  • "The Sumerian Oath" (1972)
  • "Father's in the Basement" (1972)
  • "Toward the Beloved City" (1972)
  • "Mother Earth Wants You" (1972)
  • "Sketches Among the Ruins of My Mind" (1973)
  • "Monolog" (1973)
  • "After King Kong Fell" (1973)
  • "Opening the Door" (1973)
  • "The Two-Edged Gift" (1974)
  • "The Startouched" (1974)
  • "The Evolution of Paul Eyre" (1974)
  • "Passing On" (1975)
  • "A Scarletin Study, as Jonathan Swift Somers III" (1975)
  • "The Problem of the Sore Bridge - Among Others, as Harry Manders" (1975)
  • "Greatheart Silver" (1975)
  • "The Return of Greatheart Silver" (1975)
  • "Osiris on Crutches, as Leo Queequeg Tincrowder" (1976)
  • "The Volcano, as Paul Chapin" (1976)
  • "The Doge Whose Barque Was Worse Than His Bight, as Jonathan Swift Somers III" (1976)
  • "Fundamental Issue" (1976)
  • "The Henry Miller Dawn Patrol" (1977)
  • "Greatheart Silver in the First Command" (1977)
  • "Savage Shadow as Maxwell Grant" (1977)
  • "The Impotency of Bad Karma as Cordwainer Bird" (1977)
  • "It's the Queen of Darkness, Pal, as Rod Keen" (1978)
  • "Freshman" (1979)
  • "The Leaser of Two Evils" (1979)
  • "J.C. on the Dude Ranch" (1979)
  • "Spiders of the Purple Mage" (1980)
  • "The Making of Revelation, Part I" (1980)
  • "The Long Wet Dream of Rip Van Winkle" (1981)
  • "The Adventure of the Three Madmen" (1984) (rewrite of The Adventure of the Peerless Peer (1974))
  • "UFO vs IRS" (1985)
  • "St. Francis Kisses His Ass Goodbye" (1989)
  • "One Down, One to Go" (1990)
  • "Evil, Be My Good" (1990)
  • "Nobody's Perfect" (1991)
  • "Wolf, Iron and Moth" (1991)
  • "Crossing the Dark River" (1992)
  • "A Hole in Hell" (1992; as "Dane Helstrom")
  • "Up the Bright River" (1993)
  • "Coda" (1993)
  • "The Good of the Land" (2002)
  • "The Face that Launched a Thousand Eggs" (2005)
  • "The Unnaturals" (2005)
  • "Who Stole Stonehenge?" (2005)
  • "That Great Spanish Author, Ernesto" (2006)
  • "The Essence of the Poison" (2006)
  • "The Doll Game" (2006)
  • "Keep Your Mouth Shut" (2006)
  • "The Frames" (2007)
  • "A Spy in the U.S. of Gonococcia" (2007)
  • "A Peoria Night" (2007)
  • "The First Robot" (2008)
  • "Getting Ready to Write" (2008) (co-authored with Paul Spiteri)
  • "My Summer Husband" (2010)
  • "What I Thought I Heard" (2011)
  • "Kwasin and the Bear God" (2011) (co-authored with Christopher Paul Carey)

Anthologies edited by Farmer

Ephemera

  • "Bradley Brave Sees New York With Observing Injun Eyes—And with Knocking Knees" (1940)
  • "Lovers and Otherwise" (1953)
  • "The Tin Woodman Slams the Door" (1954)
  • "White Whales Raintrees Flying Saucers" (1954)
  • "The Golden Age and the Brass" (1956)
  • "On a Mountain Upside Down" (1960)
  • "Blueprint for Free Beer" (1967)
  • "Reap" (1968)
  • "Oft Have I Travelled" (1969)
  • "Report" (1969) - republished as "The Josés from Rio" (2006)
  • "The Affair of the Logical Lunatics" (1971)
  • "The Two Lord Ruftons" (1971)
  • "The Obscure Life and Hard Times of Kilgore Trout" (1971)
  • "A Reply to "The Red Herring"" (1971)
  • "The Lord Mountford Mystery" (1972)
  • "Writing the Biography of Doc Savage" (1973) - republished as "Writing Doc's Biography" (1974)
  • "From Erb to Ygg" (1973)
  • "To the Wizard of Sci-Fi" (1974)
  • "The Feral Human in Mythology and Fiction" (1974)
  • "Charles L. Tanner" (1974)
  • "A Language for Opar" (1974)
  • "Some Comments" (1975) - republished as "The Source of the River" (2006)
  • "How Dinosaurs Did It" (1976)
  • "Phonemics" (1976)
  • "Philip Jose Farmer Sez..." (1976) - republished as "A Fimbulwinter Introduction" (2006)
  • "Religion and Myths" (1977)
  • "Jonathan Swift Somers III: Cosmic Traveller in a Wheelchair" (1977)
  • "The Remarkable Adventure" with Beverly Friend (1978)
  • "Creating Artificial Worlds" (1979)
  • "Riverworld War" (1980)
  • "Maps and Spasms" (1981)
  • "The Monster on Hold" (1983)
  • "L. Frank Baum" (1985)
  • "Edgar Rice Burroughs" (1985)
  • "Memoir" (1986) - republished as "IF R.I.P" (2006)
  • "Remembering VERN" (1987)
  • "The Journey" (1988)
  • "Hayy ibn Yaqzam: An Arabic Mowgli" (1994)
  • "Robert Bloch: An Appreciation" (1994)
  • "Dede Weil: An Appreciation" (2000)
  • "I Still Live!" (2006)
  • "Why Do I Write?" (2006)
  • "The Trout Letters" (2006)
  • "The Light-Hog Incident" (2007)
  • "The Rebels Unthawed" (2007)
  • "A Modest Proposal" (2007)
  • "Sherlock Holmes & Sufism—& Related Subjects" (2008)
  • "Jongor in the Wold Newton Family" (2008)
  • "Three Metafictional Proposals" (2008)
  • "Uncle Sam's Mad Tea Party" (2008)
  • "Down to Earth's Centre" (2008)
  • "The Weird Wild Climb" (2008)
  • "Buddha Contemplates His Novel" (2009)
  • "Resumé of Riverworld Dawn" (2009)
  • "Miadzian Journal" (2009)
  • "Time Has Its Mirages" (2009)
  • "Newly Born, Newly Dead" (2010)
  • "The Legend of Mishiwapo" (2010)
  • "A Writer's Prayer" (2010)
  • "Strangers & Brothers: Pitch to Publishers" (2011)
  • "Strangers & Brothers: Francis Uquart" (2011)
  • "A Slender Tribute to a Big Man" (2011)
  • "Faith in 2097" (2011)
  • "Mark Twain and Kurt Vonnegut versus Free Will" (2011)

References

  1. ↑ Croteau, Michael (November 10, 2009). "Philip José Farmer: Articles". The Official Philip José Farmer Home Page.
  2. ↑ Nuninga, Zacharias L.A. (19 April 2010). "Opar (Khokarsa)". Philip José Farmer: Series Listing.
  3. ↑ Farmer, Philip José and Carey, Christopher Paul, "Kwasin and the Bear God" in The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 2: Of Dust and Soul, Michael Croteau, ed., Meteor House, 2011.

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