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Philip José Farmer

Lifespan
1918 – 2009
Nationality
American
Active
1953 – 1963
Works held
8

Philip José Farmer (1918–2009) exploded into the field in 1952 with ‘The Lovers’, which put adult sexuality into a genre that had largely avoided it, and won him a Hugo as most promising new writer. He went on to build the vast Riverworld sequence (where everyone who ever lived is resurrected along one endless river) and the World of Tiers, and to play elaborate ‘fictional-author’ games with Tarzan, Doc Savage and Kilgore Trout. A Grand Master of restless imagination.

The works

  1. 1963
    Cover of How deep the grooves How deep the grooves
  2. 1961
    Cover of Tongues of the Moon Tongues of the Moon
  3. 1960
    Cover of Heel Heel
  4. 1957
    Cover of The Green Odyssey The Green Odyssey
  5. 1954
    Cover of Rastignac the Devil Rastignac the Devil Cover of The celestial blueprint The celestial blueprint Cover of The wounded The wounded
  6. 1953
    Cover of They Twinkled Like Jewels They Twinkled Like Jewels

Wrote across

1950s1960s

Recurring themes

Social SFDystopiaFirst ContactSpace OperaColonizationPost-ApocalypticHard SFAdventure

Kindred authors shared themes

Bryce WaltonFrederik PohlGeorge O. SmithH. B. FyfeMurray LeinsterNelson S. BondPoul AndersonRandall Garrett

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Randall GarrettStephen MarloweMurray LeinsterMack ReynoldsAlan Edward NourseH. Beam PiperRobert SilverbergFritz LeiberBryce WaltonCharles L. Fontenay

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