Philip José Farmer
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The Green Odyssey' is an uproarious, hell-bent adventure story, combining fantasy, imagination and science, with a liberal dash of humor. It is in the best tradition of adventure science fiction, a swashbuckling tale of a resourceful spaceman who is, however, uneasily aware that he may have been miscast. Fortunately, he has the assistance of a large, gorgeous, energetic and adoring female who is supremely confident of his ability to handle all comers....
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This is a classic science fiction short story by Philip José Farmer. Set three centuries in the future around a far off star, there live humans and two other sentient hominids, the reptiles and the amphibians. All three life forms wear living cloaks, known as skins. These skins allow them to communicate with each other via telepathy, and provide them with empathy and a conscience – one which gives them electric shocks should they step out of line....
3) Dayworld
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Only by being watched may you become free. Its 3414 AD, the rise of the New Era, and Earth has become massively overpopulated. The worldwide government has recently implemented a system that allows human civilization to continue: Each person lives only one day a week. For the other six he or she is "stoned"-placed in suspended animation. To keep everyone to their particular day, the activities of all citizens of the Organic Commonwealth of Earth are...
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From the Hugo Award–winning author of Riverworld: The conclusion of the trilogy set on a future Earth where freedom is threatened by an insidious lie. Before the dawn of the New Era, the world was divided into nations with separate governments that engaged in wars, and populations ravaged by poverty, starvation, and disease. After a final bloody conflict, a single government emerged and took drastic measures to control the dangerous overpopulation...
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In this classic fantasy novel a warrior sets out to win a deadly contest to rule a prehistoric empire-and take the hand of its beautiful priestess.
The lost city of Opar was first introduced to readers in the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Hidden deep in Africa, it is a place shrouded in mystery and awash with incredible riches. In Hadon of Ancient Opar, Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Philip José Farmer reimagines this forgotten...
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Twenty-first-century scientists make shocking discoveries on an expedition to the prehistoric age in the Hugo Award–winner's "mystery within a mystery" (Wired).
In 2070 AD, anthropologist John Gribardsun assembles a team of scientists to travel back in time to the prehistoric world of 12,000 BC. Their unprecedented mission-one that could never be repeated-is to learn about the primitive Magdalenian culture. They are willing to risk anything to...
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Holmes travels to Africa to help Tarzan stop a German spy's nefarious weapon in this "glorious" sci-fi pastiche by the Hugo Award–winning author (Locus).
When the acclaimed science fiction author Philip José Farmer took up the mantle of Sherlock Holmes, he produced an adventure unlike anything fans of the Baker Street detective had seen before. In this far-flung mystery of World War I, Holmes and Watson are sent to Egypt to stop the German spy...
11) The World of Tiers, Volume One: The Maker of Universes, The Gates of Creation, and A Private Cosmos
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The first three adventures set in the amazing realm created by the Hugo Award–winning author of Riverworld. His past a mystery and his present unbearably mundane, Robert Wolff is simply trying to buy a new house in Arizona when he stumbles upon a secret doorway through space and time and enters the World of Tiers. Made up of ascending levels of jungles, plains, medieval cities, and, at the top, a Garden of Eden, and populated by fantastical creatures,...
12) Lord Tyger
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A South African tycoon attempts to engineer his own Tarzan in a novel that deconstructs the original legend with unparalleled imagination.
In a remote African valley, Ras Tyger is the Lord of the Jungle. He lives each day fulfilling his appetites for deadly prey and sexual conquest. But something sinister lurks behind his unspoiled life. He will soon discover the devastating truth: his entire existence has been engineered by a madman.
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A novel of alien gods, monsters, and galactic destruction from the New York Times—bestselling author of the Riverworld series.
Captain Ramstan commands the crew of one of the only alaraf-drive vessels capable of instantaneous travel between two points of space. While on an official scientific surveillance expedition, he revises their mission to join the search for a missing ship. But instead of the spacecraft, they discover a planet in its death...
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Three stories of a world shared by resurrected humans from all times and places-plus ten more tales by the Hugo Award–winning author of the World of Tiers series. On author Philip José Farmer's Riverworld, humans from every era and culture have been simultaneously resurrected. Ancient Hebrews, medieval warriors, Spanish Inquisitors, and modern Americans intermingle in this strange new environment, but many still cling to old prejudices. Tom Mix,...
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From the New York Times—bestselling author of the Riverworld series: An alternate history classic in which the American continents never existed.
Two Hawks from Earth, an expanded and revised version of Philip José Farmer's The Gate of Time, is the story of an Iroquois pilot in World War II.
First Lt. Roger Two Hawks is on a bombing run over Romania when his aircraft is shot down and collides with a German plane midair. Two Hawks bails out and...
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Disaster sends a man across the universe in search of answers to life's big questions in this humorous classic adventure by a Science Fiction Grand Master.
When a massive flood wipes out Earth and spoils his date, lone survivor Simon Wagstaff finds refuge in an abandoned Chinese spaceship, the Hwang Ho. Accompanied by three new companions-a dog, an owl, and a beautiful robot-and his electric banjo, Wagstaff sets off on an extraterrestrial adventure....
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A nineteenth-century sailor must navigate a future world of airships and soaring whales in the Hugo Award–winning author's sci-fi sequel to Moby-Dick.
When the whaling ship Pequod is destroyed, Ishmael is the lone survivor to escape a watery grave. But shortly after his rescue, he finds himself slipping through a rift in time and space-into a future Earth. In this strange new world, he encounters bloodsucking vegetation and a blood-red sun....
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The Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author boldly reimagines the Jules Verne classic Around the World in Eighty Days in this outrageous sci-fi fantasy.
The famous adventurer Phileas Fogg was not at all what he seemed-and his legendary journey was far more remarkable than previous accounts let on. Fogg was actually a human foster child of an alien race known as the Eridaneans. After being marooned on Earth, they enlisted Fogg as a secret agent...
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An alternate-universe Tarzan seeks revenge on an all-powerful cabal in this science fiction adventure-a sequel to A Feast Unknown.
He is Viscount Grandrith: member of the House of Lords, slayer of wild beasts, and righter of wrongs. Having tasted the elixir of life, he possesses near-immortal power-a power that comes with a dark affliction shared only by his half-brother, Doc Caliban.
On his way to rediscover his childhood roots in Gabon, Lord...
20) Daughter
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Keep quiet, all you virgins and Mothers, while I communicate. Listen, listen, all you who are hooked into this broadcast. Listen, and I will tell you how I left my Mother, how my two sisters and I grew our shells, how I dealt with the olfway, and why I have become the Mother with the most prestige, the strongest shell, the most powerful broadcaster and beamer, and the pulser of a new language.