Talk:Philip José Farmer
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[edit] Winning a Hugo
Article doesn't mention anything about author winning the Hugo for his work the Lovers. A major accomplishement. Sadly I do not know much about it. Was looking here for more info. fyi.
- It was the first science-fiction story, as far as I'm aware and general consensus, that dealt with sex in a manner beyond a magazine cover of a scantily clad woman being threatened by some mad-scientist/monster/alien/Asian with the square-jawed Hero racing to her rescue. He had to shop it around half dozen or so publishers before he could find one that would buy it; they all agreed that it was good but simply not publishable. It and several other works from that time really forced open the floodgates as it were and allowed science fiction to be serious mature works.
[edit] Request for more info
Could we have some more bibliographical info, ie whereabouts he was born, lives now, ect, ect. 203.211.69.201 10:46, 16 January 2006 (UTC)Willuknight
Phil was born in Indiana and grew up in Peoria. Lived at various times in upstate New York and Arizona (IIRC), but he and Bette spent much of their lives in Peoria, where they still live. Both are pretty frail these days. When I feel stronger, maybe I'll insert this info in the article proper. --RFL
- Felt stong enough to do it. RLetson 04:58, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
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- It looks like he's begun writing short material again, so can't be all that frail.
--FarmerCollector 03:31, 10 May 2006 (UTC)Truth be told the newly published material is from Phil's files of formerly unpublished works.
[edit] List of works
Surely Tarzan Alive and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life are not non-fiction. They are fiction pretending to be non-fiction, or "Pseudo non-fiction" ? His website calls them fictional biography.
Riverworld War is shown as 1964 - this does not seem likely - it consists of an extract and an edited version of two 1979 novels. His website gives a 1980 publication date.
-- Beardo 08:58, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
There seem to be some missing titles, such as "Traitor to the Living" and "Stations of the Nightmare", and no doubt others.
[edit] Amber
"His parallel universe series World of Tiers inspired Roger Zelazny's Amber series." - did it ?
-- Beardo 07:48, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
I see Zelazny wrote an intro to one of the novels - was that written before or after he had started the Amber books ?
-- Beardo 15:03, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Purple Haze
I have heard rumors that the song "Purple Haze," by Jimi Hendrix, was inspired by a line from one of Farmer's novels. Is this true?
Jimi Hendrix claimed that “Purple Haze” was not a drug song. Jimi was an avid reader of science fiction, and he encountered the phrase “purple haze” in the book Night of Light by Philip Jose Farmer (although Farmer’s phrase was actually “the purplish haze”).
[edit] Flesh + other links
It doesn't really seem appropriate to me that his novel "Flesh" redirects to the Meat article. Would anyone object to removing the linkage to said article?
I have amended, also Love Song (led to a Christian Rock Band) and Dare (leads to a disambig. page, but no mention of the novel there. BUT - do all his novels deserve their own pages ? Surely not ? -- Beardo 05:12, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Dungeon Series
Okay...I've not read any of Philip's books, but know of him via The Dungeon series - not written by him, but listed as "Philip Jose Farmer's The Dungeon". For those not in the know, it was an idea by PJF but the books were written by different authors. Anyway...I saw no mention of that at all on the page and wondered if the fans here thought they should be mentioned or not?
