The Best of Farmerphile!

The Best of Farmerphile

US $29 tpb/$40 hc

5.5×8.5, 580 pages

Trade Paperback

Limited Edition of 175 Hardcover copies

Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip José Farmer was a quarterly fanzine that ran fifteen issues from July 2005 to January 2009. Michael Croteau served as Publisher for all fifteen issues; Christopher Paul Carey and Paul Spiteri coedited the first ten issues, while Spiteri and Win Scott Eckert coedited the last five. Thanks to the generosity of Philip José Farmer and his “Magic Filing Cabinet,” Farmerphile published—for the first time anywhere—short stories (mostly not science fiction), excerpts, articles, speeches, and letters written by Farmer. It even serialized the novel Up from the Bottomless Pit (not included in this collection, but forthcoming from Meteor House).

Farmerphile also contained articles and appreciations from Farmer’s fans and from his fellow science fiction authors, from critiques of his work to stories of personal encounters, and everything between. A complete list of the original contents of all fifteen issues can be found here.

Now the hard part: narrowing down so much content into one “Best of” collection. This was much harder than it sounds, as nearly all the content was worthy of inclusion. So, we focused on broadly covering as much ground as possible, as well as including pieces that touched on Farmer’s personal life. Assembled here is a wealth of information about one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time along, with some of his earliest writing.

The Best of Farmerphile is available in two editions: a Trade Paperback and a Hardcover Limited Edition. The hardcover is not “officially” a signed limited edition, but when the book debuts at PulpFest/FarmerCon XII in late July 2017, we will get as many contributors on hand as possible to sign it before we ship the books to those preordered (shipping will occur immediately after PulpFest/FarmerCon XII).

Below is the table of contents as of January 26th, which would have been Farmer’s 99th birthday. Contents are subject to change, and by change we mean they are likely to grow a bit.

Introduction Michael Croteau

Nonfiction by Regular Contributors

The Roller Coaster Ride with Phil Farmer by Bette Farmer

The Farmerian Holmes by Win Scott Eckert

Excessively Diverted, Or, Coming to Pemberley House by Win Scott Eckert

Only a Coincidence: Phileas Fogg, Philip José Farmer, and the Wold Newton Family by Win Scott Eckert

Gribardsun through the Ages by Win Scott Eckert & Dennis E. Power

When Day Breaks the Stone God Awaits by Dennis E. Power

Philip José Farmer and The Case of the Two Jungle Lords by Dennis E. Power

Bibliophile–The Other Log of Phileas Fogg by Paul Spiteri

Bibliophile–Jesus on Mars by Paul Spiteri

Bibliophile–Lord Tyger by Paul Spiteri

Through the Seventh Gate by Christopher Paul Carey

The Archaeology of Khokarsa by Christopher Paul Carey

The Magic Filing Cabinet and The Missing Page by Christopher Paul Carey

A Box Within a Box: Philip José Farmer as Maxwell Grant as… by Danny Adams

Remembering the Eyre Incident Three Decades Later by Danny Adams

Star Trek’s Loss Is Your Gain From Screen Treatment To Short Story by Danny Adams

Nonfiction by Philip José Farmer

I Still Live! 75th Anniversary Dinner Keynote Address

Hayy ibn Yaqzam by Abu ibn Tufayl An Arabic Mowgli

Why Do I Write?

The Brueckel/Harwood Letter

White Whales, Raintrees, Flying Saucers

Sherlock Holmes & Sufism—& Related Subjects

Jongor in the Wold Newton Family

Wild Weird Clime: Balticon 11 Guest of Honor Speech

Doc Wildman’s Coat of Arms

Buddha Contemplates His Novel Or, God and Humankind Redefined

Nonfiction by Guest Contributors

Essex House, Tarzan and Time’s Last Gift by Bob Zeuschner

The Trickster Awakens: Philip José Farmer and Venus on the Half-Shell by Tracy Knight

On a Riverboat with the Farmers by Gary K. Wolfe

Heritage of the Flaming God A Classic Essay, Long Forgotten, Inspired Farmer by Alan Hanson

Caliban by Will Murray

Phil & Bette Farmer, Jack London, a Wife and a Baby, a Clean Well Lighted Hotel Room by Joe R. Lansdale

Sketches from the Ruins of my Mind by Robert R. Barrett

Smoke Gets In Your Nose by Spider Robinson

On Not Going There by Howard Waldrop

We Were Introduced by Sherlock Holmes by George H. Scheetz

Escape from Loki Again, and Again, and Again… by Steve Mattsson

Bibliophile—Tongues of the Moon by Heidi Ruby Miller

To Be, or Not to Be by Tom Wode Bellman

A Whale of a Time by Leo Queequeg Tincrowdor

This Played in Peoria? by Art Sippo

The Voice of Farmer in My Vermiform Appendix by Rhys Hughes

Writing Graceland by Allen Steele

Fiction by Philip José Farmer

The Face that Launched a Thousand Eggs

The Unnaturals

That Great Spanish Author, Ernesto

The Essence of the Poison

The Doll Game

Keep Your Mouth Shut

The Frames

The Light-Hog Incident

A Spy in the U.S. of Gonococcia

The Rebels Unthawed

A Peoria Night

The First Robot

Duo Miaule

Getting Ready to Write (with Paul Spiteri)

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The trade paperback edition is $29 (plus shipping).

The hardcover limited edition is $40 (plus shipping).

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