Search Worlds Without End

Fifteen billion years from now, Earth is a dying planet, its skies darkened by the ashes of burned-out galaxies, its molten core long cooled. The sunless planet is nearing the day of final gravitational collapse in the surrounding galaxy. Mutations and evolution have led to a great disparity of life-forms, while civilization has resorted to the primitive.

Young Deyv of the Turtle Tribe knew nothing of his world's history or its fate. He lived only to track down the wretched Yawtl who had stolen his precious Soul Egg. Joined by other victims of the same thief - the feisty Vana and the plant-man Sloosh - the group sets off across a nightmare landscape of monster-haunted jungle and wetland. Their search leads them ultimately to the jeweled wasteland of the Shemibob, an ageless being from another star who knows Earth's end is near and holds the only key to escape.

Contents:

• Down in the Black Gang (1969)
• The Shadow of Space (1967)
• A Bowl Bigger Than Earth (1967)
• Riverworld (1966)
• A Few Miles (1960)
• Prometheus (1961)
• The Blasphemers (1964)
• How Deep the Grooves (1963)

The forces of Evil are on the March again. All our Heroes of Yesteryear are gone. Only one Man can save us now. Greatheart Silver.

A collection of three Greatheart Silver novellas:

"Greatheart Silver in Showdown at Shootout" (1975)

"The Return of Greatheart Silver, or The Secret Life of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" (1975)

"Greatheart Silver in The First Command, or Inglories Galore" (1977)

As billions of people around the globe sit glued to their television sets in the year 2015, Richard Orme, captain of the first expedition to land on Mars, takes another giant step for mankind. His first words, as he steps of the landing craft onto the red planet, are transmitted to Earth minutes later: "Christopher Columbus, you should be here." Perhaps he was. Someone has been here. A spaceship sits half-buried under the red dust and heavy boulders. Nearby, there's a tunnel door. Richard Orme and his crew, dragged into the tunnel by Martians, enter a strange subterranean world, a world where Martians pay homage to a sunlike globe - floating high above their cities of the interior. Orme thought they were sun worshippers. But there is a man who dwells within the flaming orb. And these people call him "Jesus." And the man they called "Jesus" would go back to Earth. He would be labeled "the Anti-Christ". And Richard Orme asked himself, Would history repeat itself... once more?

Hugo Award nominated story. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1960. The story is included in the collections Strange Relations (1960), The Book of Philip José Farmer (1973) and The Best of Philip Jose Farmer (2006).

Table of Contents:

• One Down, One to Go - (1990) - shortstory
• UFO Versus IRS - shortstory
• The Making of Revelation, Part I - (1980) - novelette
• The Long Wet Purple Dream of Rip van Winkle - (1981) - novelette
• Osiris on Crutches - (1976) - shortstory
• St. Francis Kisses His Ass Goodbye - (1989) - novelette
• The Oögenesis of Bird City - (1970) - shortstory
• Riders of the Purple Wage - (1967) - novella

Hugo Award winning and Nebula Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in the anthology Dangerous Visions (1967), edited by Harlan Ellison. The story can also be found in the anthology The Hugo Winners, Volume 2: (1963-70) (1971), edited by Isaac Asimov. It is included in the collections The Purple Book (1982), The Classic Philip José Farmer, 1964-1973 (1984), Riders of the Purple Wage and The Best of Philip Jose Farmer (2006).

River of Eternity was written some thirty years ago. This is the first publication anywhere.

In 1952 Philip José Farmer made the decision to enter the Shasta Science-Fiction Prize Novel Contest. He won that contest and River of Eternity was to be published the following year. The fact that it has never seen print until this edition makes its history one of the most interesting in the publishing industry.

River of Eternity is the revised version of the original Riverworld novel which formed the basis for the five novels in Farmer's highly acclaimed Riverworld series. It differs in many respects from the later novels in the series but is filled with all the adventure and sense of wonder which has made Philip José Farmer one of the most widely read and important science fiction writers for more than three decades.

His journey began with the blast of a shotgun aimed at a gleaming nimbus of light. The tightening of his finger on the trigger was almost accidental; his punishment was almost merciful. But his journey has just begun, and when it is over Paul Eyre will no longer be human....

A collection of connected stories:

"The Two-Edged Gift" (1974)

"The Star-Touched" (1974)

"The Evolution of Paul Eyre" (1974)

"Passing On" (1975)

"Osiris on Crutches" (1976)

A collection of three novellas by Philip José Farmer

Table of Contents:

• The Alley Man
• The Captain's Daughter
• The God Business

Hugo Award nominated story. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1959. The story can also be found in the anthologies Baker's Dozen: 13 Short Science Fiction Novels (1985) edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh, and The Great SF Stories 21 (1959) (1990), edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg. It is included in the collections The Alley God (1962), The Book of Philip José Farmer (1973) and The Best of Philip Jose Farmer (2006).

A selection of stories from throughout Farmer's career through the early seventies.

Contents:

• Foreword by Philip José Farmer
• My Sister's Brother (1960)
• Skinburn (1972)
• The Alley Man (1959)
• Father's in the Basement (1972)
• oward the Beloved City (1972)
• Polytropical Paramyths [essay]
• Totem and Taboo (1954)
• Don't Wash the Carats (1968)
• The Sumerian Oath (1972)
• The Voice of the Sonar in My Vermiform Appendix (1971)
• Brass and Gold (or Horse and Zeppelin in Beverly Hills) (1971)
• Only Who Can Make a Tree? (1971)
• An Exclusive Interview with Lord Greystoke (1972)
• Sexual Implications of the Charge of the Light Brigade (1967)
• The Obscure Life and Hard Times of Kilgore Trout: A Skirmish in Biography (1971)
• Thanks for the Feast [essay]
• Notes on Philip José Farmer (1972) [essay by Leslie A. Fiedler]

Contents:

• 7 - The Long Warpath - (1962) - novel (variant of Cache from Outer Space)
• 191 - Rastignac the Devil - [The Sturch] - (1954) - novella
• 267 - They Twinkled Like Jewels - (1954) - short story

Jack, a struggling art student, is hired to drive a mute, crippled girl across the country. Tappy Concord can barely communicate, but something about her touches Jack, so much so that he follows her into the mountains - and through the gateway to another world.

There he finds himself surrounded by strange, alien creatures, and pursued by the relentless agents of the Gaol, an all-powerful galactic empire. Only one force in all the cosmos can hope to overcome the tyranny of the Gaol: The Imago, an immortal spirit capable of evolving into a being of immense power. The Imago can be anywhere or anyone... maybe even a crippled human girl.

The Caterpillar's Question is a world-spanning science fiction odyssey - as only Piers Anthony and Philip José Farmer could tell it.

Contents:

• The Oogenesis of Bird City
• Riders of the Purple Wage
• Spiders of the Purple Mage
• The Making of Revelation, Part 1
• The Long Wet Purple Dream of Rip Van Winkle

Ulysses Singing Bear had no idea that his scientific work would result in a twenty-million-year journey to a world peopled by the descendants of present-day animals. It was the world of Awina, the cat-woman with an impossible love for Ulysses. It was the planet of a mammoth continent-spanning intelligence –The Tree– who knew that Ulysses, the newly-awakened Stone God, could destroy his reign.

To enable his species to survive, Ulysses had to find a human mate. To do so, and to fulfill the single condition set by his worshippers, he had to confront The Tree. It would have been an easy task for a god, but he was only a man—and the only man at that.

Philip José Farmer, the wildly creative author of the bestselling Riverworld series, here delights his wide readership with a compelling new novel. All the skills and the soaring imagination which have won Farmer over a million dedicated fans are abundant in this highly charged, far-future, space adventure story.

The Unreasoning Mask is the story of Ramstan, captain of al-Buraq, a rare model starship. It is capable of alaraf drive: instantaneous travel between two points of space. Three of these special ships were built to explore and make contact with the many sentient races inhabiting the universe. Suddenly, one of the ships mysteriously disappears. And then it is discovered that an unidentifiable "creature" is marauding through the universe, totally annihilating intelligent life on planet after planet.

Ranstan, a thoughtful and moral man, becomes a fascinated yet reluctant pawn in the hands of the strange forces which arise to fight the deadly destroyer. Ultimately, he is the one man who, in a fearful race against time, can stop the destruction. But what price must he pay for becoming the savior of intelligent-kind?

The Unreasoning Mask is Farmer at his best--fast-paced, complex, slightly mystical, high-action adventure.

Ishmael, lone survivor of the doomed whaling ship Pequod, falls through a rift in time and space to a future Earth - an Earth of blood-sucking vegetation and a blood-red sun, of barren canyons where once the Pacific Ocean roared. Here too there are whales to hunt - but whales that soar through a dark blue sky....

Hugo Award-winner Philip José Farmer spins a fascinating tale of whaling ships and sailors of the sky in a bizarre future world where there are no seas to sail and no safe harbor to call home....

From the Jove edition:

Man had colonized the planets, and lost his birthright. Civilization was a lonely chain of space stations linked by terror.

The Empire kept the pioneers enslaved with a weapon that shattered any protest into screaming insanity.

All they had left was the dream of someday returning home. Until their dream exploded in the holocaust that destroyed the Earth.

But the embers of their dead planet sparked a brain-blasting revolution that swept the galaxy. A revolution of exiles in an alien universe - with nothing left to lose...

from the Ace edition: Roger Two Hawks thought he'd probably bought it when he bailed out of his flaming bomber. His plane had made an eerie shudder just before he jumped, but nothing could have prepared him for what he found on the ground: Men dressed in skins, fighting with knives and arrows, speaking no language he'd ever heard. The War - and with it all the rest of the world he knew - had vanished, and been replaced by a savage struggle for control of a primitive parallel Earth. Two Hawks' technological know-how makes him a valuable prize for his captors - too valuable to be set free ... and too dangerous for the other side to leave alive.

From the MonkeyBrain edition: In this classic of alternate history by grand master Philip Jose Farmer, Native American bomber pilot Roger Two Hawks bails out over enemy territory in WWII, only to find himself on another Earth—one in which the American continents never rose from the waters, and the ancestors of the American Indians remained in Asia and Europe—an Earth embroiled in a world war of its own, with Two Hawks caught in the middle.

originally published as The Gate of Time (Belmont, 1966), the novel was revised, expanded and retitled Two Hawks from Earth (Farmer's preferred title) for the 1979 Ace edition.

Up from the Bottomless Pit and Other Stories is the ultimate collection for Philip José Farmer fans, including 140,000 words (over 375 pages) of very obscure, never-before-collected short stories, a novel beginning, non-fiction, and a complete novel as well.

All of these pieces have only seen publication in Farmerphile, a fanzine with a regular circulation well under two hundred copies per issue. Subterranean Press is proud to give these newly discovered gems a more permanent home, in an edition specifically geared toward Phil's most ardent fans. In addition to the rarities, there are copious introductions and numerous black and white illustrations.

Philip José Farmer: maker of universes and chronicler of fantastic adventures, legendary Hugo Award winner and Nebula Grand Master... Today few realize that Farmer was writing literary fiction long before he set the science fiction world afire with his groundbreaking "The Lovers." Up from the Bottomless Pit and Other Stories collects these little known treasures, along with other fantastical tales--all making their first appearance here in book form.

Sure to excite readers of science fiction everywhere is the inclusion of Farmer's "lost" novel of the ultimate ecological nightmare. Set in an alternate past circa the 1970s, Up from the Bottomless Pit tells of a world so ravenous in its desire for oil that it has thrown caution to the wind. Using an experimental laser drill, human-kind burns a hole through the ocean floor only to unleash a deadly torrent that threatens to wipe out all life on the planet.

With its first-time collection of a lost novel, ultra-rare works, tales of science fiction and fantasy, Up from the Bottomless Pit and Other Stories presents a compelling new look at one of speculative fiction's most beloved literary giants.

Along with Up from the Bottomless Pit, a novel originally serialized in 2005, the collection includes:

• Philip José Farmer: On the Road to the Emerald City - essay by Christopher Paul Carey
• That Great Spanish Author, Ernesto - (2006)
• The Essence of the Poison - (2006)
• Keep Your Mouth Shut - (2006)
• The Face That Launched a Thousand Eggs - (2005)
• The Doll Game - (2006)
• Introduction to The Rebels Unthawed - essay by Win Scott Eckert
• The Rebels Unthawed
• The Frames - (2007)
• The Light-Hog Incident - (2007)
• The Unnaturals - (2005)
• A Spy in the U.S. of Gonococcia - (2007)
• A Peoria Night
• I Still Live! - (2006)
• Hayy ibn Yaqzam by Abu ibn Tufayl: An Arab Mowgli - (1991) - essay
• Why Do I Write? - (2006) - essay

This first posthumous collection of the short fiction of Philip Jose Farmer is a celebration of the impressive variety of his prodigious output, from the space adventures he published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s through the 1970s, to his acerbic satires of religion and medicine, to his fictional biographies and memoirs, to his beloved Riverworld.

Appearing for the first time in a Philip Jose Farmer collection are his last three 'Riverworld' stories--featuring characters from his own family history--as well as the 'memoir' of Lord Greystoke which he claimed to have merely edited. Other highlights include 'Attitudes,' the first of the Father Carmody stories; 'The Two-Edged Gift,' which introduces the fictional science fiction writer Leo Queequeg Tincrowdor; 'Toward the Beloved City' (about which its original editor said he had never before really understood the Book of Revelations); and 'Father's in the Basement,' a little-known Gothic horror tale which is also a satire of the writing profession.

Farmer created some of the most famous worlds in science fiction, but he also wrote in many worlds, and readers familiar only with his best-known classics may find a few surprises among these tales.

Simon Wagstaff narrowly escapes the Deluge that destroys Earth when he happens upon an abandoned spaceship. A man without a planet, he gains immortality from an elixir drunk during an interlude with a cat-like alien queen. Now Simon must chart a 3,000-year course to the most distant corners of the multiverse, to seek out the answers to the questions no one can seem to answer.

Originally published under the pseudonym Kilgore Trout, the fictional SF author created by Kurt Vonnegut.

Cache From Outer Space

Benoni Rider set out across the unexplored desert of a future America to prove himself a man and to find a new land for his people. The task at first seemed merely exceedingly hard - and then it began to seem entirely impossible.

Because all he had to do was join a barbaric army, become a bodyguard for a queen, act as another nation's emissary to his own, lead an army into battle against the wild men of the north, and manage somehow to get back to Fiiniks with the secret of the Cache From Outer Space.

That last was the secret that, if learned, could enable any of the barbarian nations of that devastated future to control the rest of the world -- or annihilate it all over again!

Retitled "The Long Warpath" and included in The Cache (collection, Tor, 1981).

The Celestial Blueprint and Other Stories

Four early Farmer stories, including the Sturch series novella "Rastignac the Devil."

Contents:

• Rastignac the Devil (1954)
• The Celestial Blueprint (1954)
• They Twinkled Like Jewels (1954)
• Totem and Taboo (1954)

Though Earthmen first landed on the planet Dare 300 years earlier, they were still bound by the same standards of snobbery and fear... until Jack Cage, eldest son of a wealthy human, found himself strangely drawn to a spectacularly beautiful native. To consort with her meant death. But why? And what were humans doing on the planet anyway?

Lord of the Trees

"Having lived long enough with the charming fairy tale created by my biographer, I feel the time has come for the truth to be known. I propose to tell all; of the origins of The Nine, the elixir that gives us nearly eternal youth and superhuman strength, the struggles between us that set the world atremble."

The follow-up to Jose Farmer's shocking and controversial A Feast Unknown.

The Mad Goblin

They were known simply as the Nine - grim and ancient rulers who thirty thousand years ago had discovered the key to eternal life and ever since had secretly held the world in thrall.

Once, Doc Caliban had been their servant and had shared their secrets. Now, appalled by their tyranny, he has turned against them, daring to challenge their centuries-old supremacy. Together with two henchmen whose superhuman skills match his own, Caliban sets out on the trail of the deadliest of the Nine: the mad goblin Iwaldi, the very incarnation of evil...

This collection was retitled Riverworld: The Great Short Fiction of Philip José Farmer when re-released in 1983. (It contains the original "Riverworld" short story, but is not otherwise part of the Riverworld series.)

Contents:

• Stories That Will Not Appear in This Volume [introduction by Philip José Farmer]
• Riverworld (1966)
• The Volcano (1976)
• The Henry Miller Dawn Patrol (1977)
• The Problem of the Sore Bridge -- Among Others (1975)
• Brass and Gold (or Horse and Zeppelin in Beverly Hills) (1971)
• The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod (1970)
• The Voice of the Sonar in My Vermiform Appendix (1971)
• Monolog (1973)
• The Leaser of Two Evils (1979)
• The Phantom of the Sewers (1978)

CLASSIC SF ROMP BY AUTHOR OF RIVERWORLD! When Alan Green's starship crashes on a medieval planet overrun with feudal human societies, he is instantly captured and sold into slavery. Big, handsome, blond and strong, on a planet of short, dark people, Green soon finds himself installed as a gigolo to Duchess Zuni of Tropat, the local duke's voluptuous but bath-needing wife. Lazy, cautious to the point of timidity, he soon finds himself under the thumb of Amra, an Amazon of a wife, a slave like him, who combines beauty, and intelligence with five kids, one of them Green's. With himself as gigolo and Amra, as official lernan of the Duchess Zuni, Green is doing quite well in a precarious position when he hears that another ship from the sky has landed a few thousand miles away, and the two men on board mistaken for "demons" and scheduled for execution. Determined to save his fellow Earthmen from death, and himself from Amra, Green determines to cross the grass sea of Xurdimur and get himself to Estorya in time to stop the execution--and incidentally hitch a ride home to Earth. Thus begins Philip Jose Farmer's The Green Odyssey, which has rightly been called "rollicking science-fiction adventure" ... "uproarious" ... "swashbuckling" ... "sheer fun" ... "and by science fiction critic and by scholar, Sam Moskowitz: "filled with engaging humor." The adventure begins when Alan Green arranges passage on a "wind roller." a sailing vessel of the plains by dazzling the captain with a financial scheme that offers rich profits to overcome his reluctance to help a fugitive. Setting "sale" with the captain, Green thinks he's escaped from his dominating wife -- but he's wrong. Throw in pirates and floating islands and a black cat-goddess with a taste for beer, picked up after shipwreck on one of the wandering Islands of the Xurdimur, and you have the recipe for science-fantasy adventure as irresistible as Riverworld itself. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction hails Green Odyssey as "A picaresque tale or an earthman escaping from captivity on an alien planet; the intricately colorful medieval culture of this planet, the high libido of its women, the mysteries Buried within the sands of the desert over which the hero must flee, and the admixture of rapture and disgust with which the hero treats this venue -- all go to make this novel a model for the flowering of planetary romance from the 1960s on."

Contents:

• vii - Retrieving the Lost - (1984) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• xi - Introduction (The Classic Philip José Farmer, 1952-1964) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• 1 - Sail On! Sail On! - (1952) - short story
• 12 - Mother - (1953) - novelette
• 43 - The God Business - (1954) - novella
• 110 - The Alley Man - (1959) - novella
• 158 - My Sister's Brother - (1960) - novella (variant of Open to Me, My Sister)
• 213 - The King of Beasts - (1964) - short story (variant of The King of the Beasts)

Contents:

• vii - Retrieving the Lost - (1984) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• xi - Introduction (The Classic Philip José Farmer, 1964-1973) - (1984) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• 1 - The Shadow of Space - (1967) - novelette
• 30 - Riders of the Purple Wage or the Great Gavage - (1967) - novella (variant of Riders of the Purple Wage)
• 104 - Don't Wash the Carats: A Polytropical Paramyth - short story (variant of Don't Wash the Carats 1968)
• 109 - The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod - (1970) - short story
• 115 - The Oögenesis of Bird City - (1970) - short story
• 130 - The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World - [Dayworld] - (1971) - short story
• 146 - Sketches Among the Ruins of My Mind - (1973) - novelette
• 193 - After King Kong Fell - [Wold Newton] - (1973) - short story

This short story originally appeared in the anthology New Dimensions 1 (1971), edited by Robert Silverberg, and was reprinted on Sci Fiction, February 5, 2003. It can also be found in the anthologies:

• The Best Science Fiction of the Year #1 (1972), edited by Terry Carr
• Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year (1972), edited by Lester del Rey
• Alpha 9 (1979), edited by Robert Silverberg
• The Best of New Dimensions (1979), edited by Robert Silverberg
• The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces (1983), edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg

The story is included in the collections The Classic Philip José Farmer, 1964-1973 (1984), The Grand Adventure (1984) and The Best of Philip Jose Farmer (2006).

In the thirty-fifth century, when individuals are frozen for six days and allowed to live for one day a week, "day-breakers" like Jeff Caird, illegally steal entire weeks by juggling daily identities.

Jefferson Caird joins an outlaw band of daybreakers and uncovers the layers of deception that world government has inflicted on the people it has sworn to protect.

William Duncan, the rebel daybreaker, and his lover, Panthea Snick, set out to reveal the dark secrets of Dayworld and the formula for long life and to end the repressive hegemony.

A brand new Doc Savage adventure, a prequel to the original MAN OF BRONZE book. A young Clark Savage joins the army at age 16, fights in WWI and meets the men who would become his companions while in a German prison camp. The story of their escape and the damage they do to the Germans in the process is vintage Doc and vintage Farmer. This story was adapted to a comic book in the DC Comics 1989 Annual Doc Savage issue.

This is # 183 in the Doc Savage Novels series.

More information about Escape From Loki available at the Hidalgo Trading Company website.

This mind-blowing classic conjures a universe of unrelenting sexual degradation and horror. Private dick Herald Childe is sent a snuff movie of his partner being hideously murdered. His pursuit of the killers leads him into a waking nightmare of sexual brutality and supernatural bestiality, as he becomes entangled with sex-starved she-ghosts, libidinous snake-women, a filthy human sow, and a she-creature who gives birth to an ectoplasmic simulacrum of Satanic child-killer Gilles de Rais.

Herald Childe has quit being a detective and gone back to college to study history. One day he sees one of the "people" from his adventure and decides to follow her. He gets caught and becomes their prisoner once again but this time things are different. It turns out that he is actually the son of Lord Byron, who was also one of "them". All of these monsters are aliens and there are two waring groups of them. Both sides want to control Childe because he is the only one who can get them back home. Childe, however, has other plans.

A machine that enables the living to communicate with the dead threatens to allow angry and vengeful ghosts to reenter the world of the living and enact cruel revenge.

Every seven years, for one night, the peaceful planet Dante's Joy becomes both hell and heaven.

All who stay awake and take the Chance become what their inmost longings dictate: a beast howling with lust or depravity, or a godlike being flowering in truth and light. Thousands are transformed into monsters, and others find perfect happiness. Those who are afraid to take the Chance escape by lying drugged in the Sleep.

John Carmody, a conscienceless exile from Earth, arrogantly chooses to take the Chance.

It is too late to turn back. Shrieking in terror, he confronts the darkness...

A collection of Farmer's Father Carmody stories, including:

• The Night of Light - Jun '57
• A Few Miles - Oct '60
• Prometheus - Mar '61
• Father - Jul '55
• Attitudes - Oct '53

Space Commander Stagg explored the galaxies for 800 years. Upon his return, the hero Stagg is made the centerpiece of an incredible public ritual, one that will repeatedly take him to the heights of ecstasy and the depths of hell.

The 1968 Doubleday edition (as well as subsequent editions) is a revised and expanded version of the 1960 orginal.

The diaries of Lord Grandrith, the legendary Apeman, Lord of the Jungle and bastard son of Jack the Ripper. Blessed with unnatural long life, his power brings with it a gruesome side effect - one shared by his nemesis, the formidable Doc Caliban, Man of Bronze and Champion of Justice.

Originally appeared in Ace Double #51375 (1970).

"Having lived long enough with the charming fairy tale created by my biographer, I feel the time has come for the truth to be known. I propose to tell all; of the origins of The Nine, the elixir that gives us nearly eternal youth and superhuman strength, the struggles between us that set the world atremble."

The follow-up to Jose Farmer's shocking and controversial A Feast Unknown.

Originally appeared in Ace Double #51375 (1970).

They were known simply as the Nine - grim and ancient rulers who thirty thousand years ago had discovered the key to eternal life and ever since had secretly held the world in thrall.

Once, Doc Caliban had been their servant and had shared their secrets. Now, appalled by their tyranny, he has turned against them, daring to challenge their centuries-old supremacy. Together with two henchmen whose superhuman skills match his own, Caliban sets out on the trail of the deadliest of the Nine: the mad goblin Iwaldi, the very incarnation of evil...

Opar, the lost colony of Atlantis, is hidden deep in the heart of Africa, awash with incredible riches. From this ancient city comes Hadon, an impoverished but ambitious young man who sets out to win the great games of Klakor, and thus become king of the Khokarsan Empire. As his quest for the throne leads him into the wild lands beyond the empire's edge, Hadon finds himself embroiled in a bloody civil war.

Fabulous Opar, whose ruins and primitive priestess were memorable features of great Tarzan novels, was the birthplace of the warrior-hero Hadon.

This was twelve thousand years ago, a time when great inland seas made Central Africa a land of mighty cities and high civilizations.

Hadon was the rightful claimant to the throne of that long-forgotten empire, but his was no easy route to power. Instead he had become the hunted prey of a tyrant's armies, accursed by the tyrant's gods, and fighting for his very life.

Philip José Farmer, chronicler of Tarzan Alive, brings it all back to live in an exciting novel to stand alongside the famous jungle books of Edgar Rice Burroughs himself.

Hank Stover was one of the two people in the world who knew that Oz really existed ... but he never expected to go there. He never expected his plane would be forced down by a green cloud that April day in 1923. Nor that he would meet the witch who had befriended his mother, Dorothy. Nor that she would be so beautiful...

In a delicious slice of sci-fi whimsy that sits cleverly alongside Verne's original tale, Phileas Fogg's epic global journey is not the product of a daft wager but, in fact, a covert mission to chase down the elusive Captain Nemo - who is none other than Professor Moriarty.

A secret alien war has raged on Earth for years and is about to culminate in this epic race.

A novel in the Wold Newton universe, in which characters such as Sherlock Holmes, Flash Gordon, Doc Savage, James Bond and Jack the Ripper are all mysteriously connected.

Five novelettes of unbounded imagination telling of strange--and often deadly--encounters between human and alien.

Contents:

• Mother (1953)
• Daughter (1954)
• Father (1955)
• Son (1954)
• My Sister's Brother (1960)

The Baen edition is an omnibus containing, along with the Strange Relations collection, the original versions of the novels Flesh (1960) and The Lovers (1961).

From the Avon/Equinox edition: It was a Universe, with its own sun and its own atmosphere. But like a little glass ball filled with whirling artificial snow, it was finite, curling back upon itself. And through its inner space, rock, mountains, fragments of buildings, and a host of eerie creatures whirled and eddied. It was a Hell... an insane compromise of terrestrial ideas and infernal facts. And Jack Cull knew he must escape from it. Here is the story of how his escape was attempted... and how he found the truth of this particular Hell.

At last--after decades--one of the most famous heroes in literature is back! Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, returns with a vengeance in this brand-new, action-packed adventure by Philip José Farmer, Hugo Award-winning author of the incredible Riverworld saga.

Tarzan's beloved mate, Jane, has been kidnapped, and the furious ape-man will let nothing stand in the way of rescuing her--not even a sinister safari whose target is Tarzan himself. With fierce Masai trackers leading the chase, a trio of white hunters are hellbent on capturing the Jungle Lord. But as the pursuers, and their uncanny half-human tracker, close in from behind, Tarzan races toward even greater danger ahead.

For the trail leads to a bizarre, long-forgotten land boasting a multitude of strange and terrifying mysteries: the City Built by God, the Hideous Hunter, the One to Avoid, and most shocking of all, the Crystal Tree of Time--whose seductive powers could ultimately spell Tarzan's doom . . .

Philip José Farmer, a descendant of the actual Greystoke family, is famous for his adventure novels starring Tarzan characters. Now, for the first time, he lends his vast imagination to the authorized legend of the Lord of the Apes himself!

Hugo Award nominated story. It originally appeared in Worlds of Tomorrow, January 1965. The stoyr was later incorporated in the fixup novel To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971).

In a collection of new Riverworld stories, all the world's dead awaken in Riverworld and play out the grand saga of human history by a new set of rules along the banks of the ten-million-mile river.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword - (1992) - essay by Philip José Farmer
• Crossing the Dark River - (1992) - novella by Philip José Farmer
• Author's Note - (1992) - essay by Philip José Farmer
• A Hole in Hell - (1992) - short story by Dane Helstrom
• Graceland - (1992) - novelette by Allen Steele
• Every Man a God - (1992) - novelette by Mike Resnick and Barry N. Malzberg
• Blandings on Riverworld - (1992) - novelette by Phillip C. Jennings
• Two Thieves - (1992) - novelette by Harry Turtledove
• Fool's Paradise - (1992) - novelette by Ed Gorman
• The Merry Men of Riverworld - (1992) - novelette by John Gregory Betancourt
• Unfinished Business - (1992) - novelette by Robert Weinberg

All those who ever lived on Earth have found themselves resurrected--healthy, young, and naked as newborns--on the grassy banks of a mighty river, in a world unknown. Miraculously provided with food, but with no clues to the meaning of their strange new afterlife, billions of people from every period of Earth's history--and prehistory--must start again.

Sir Francis Bacon would be the first to glimpse the incredible way-station, a link between worlds. This forbidden sight would spur the renowned 19th-century explorer to uncover the truth. Along with a remarkable group of compatriots, including Alice Liddell Hargreaves (the Victorian girl who was the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland), an English-speaking Neanderthal, a WWII Holocaust survivor, and a wise extraterrestrial, Burton sets sail on the magnificent river. His mission: to confront humankind's mysterious benefactors, and learn the true purpose--innocent or evil--of the Riverworld...

Resurrected on the lush, mysterious banks of Riverworld, along with the rest of humanity, Samuel Langhorne Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain) has a dream: to build a riverboat that will rival the most magnificent paddle-wheelers ever navigated on the mighty Mississippi. Then, to steer it up the endless waterway that dominates his new home planet--and at last discover its hidden source.

But before he can carry out his plan, he first must undertake a dangerous voyage to unearth a fallen meteor. This mission would require striking an uneasy alliance with the bloodthirsty Viking Erik Bloodaxe, treacherous King John of England, legendary French swordsman Cyrano de Bergerac, Greek adventurer Odysseus, and the infamous Nazi Hermann Göring. All for the purpose of storming the ominous stone tower at the mouth of the river, where the all-powerful overseers of Riverworld--and their secrets--lie in wait...

Years have passed on Riverworld. Entire nations have risen, and savage wars have been fought--all since the dead of Earth found themselves resurrected in their magnificent new homeworld. Yet the truth about the Ethicals, the powerful engineers of this mysterious "afterlife," remains unknown. But a curious cross-section of humanity is determined to change that situation... at any cost.

Intrepid explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton leads the most remarkable voyage of discovery he has ever undertaken. Hot on his heels are Samuel Clemens, King John of England, and Cyrano de Bergerac. Spurred by the promise of ultimate answers, they chart a course across the vast polar sea--and toward the awesome tower that looms above it. But getting there will be more than half the battle. For death on Riverworld has become chillingly final...

The answers behind the enigmatic origins of Riverworld lie at last within reach, as the remarkable gathering of Earthlings--including Sir Richard Francis Burton, Samuel Clemens, Alice Liddell Hargreaves (the real-life Alice in Wonderland), Cyrano de Bergerac, Ulysses S. Grant, and Baron Von Richtoven--finally breaches the stronghold of Riverworld's extraordinary super-race.

But answers would lead to more enigmatic questions...

Who is the Mysterious Stranger who taunted the Riverworld resurrectees with hints of the truth? What is the key to the gargantuan computer that wields the power of life and death? The astonishing secrets lie within the Dark Tower--but only for those brave enough to seek them and wise enough to decipher them...

Thirty-five billion people from throughout Earth's history were resurrected along the great and winding waterways of Riverworld. Most began life anew--accepting without question the sustenance provided by their mysterious benefactors. But a rebellious handful burned to confront the unseen masters who controlled their fate--and these few launched an invasion that would ultimately yield the mind-boggling truth.

Now Riverworld's omnipotent leaders have been confronted, and the renegades of Riverworld--led by the intrepid Sir Richard Francis Burton--control the fantastic mechanism that once ruled them. But the most awesome challenge lies ahead. For in the vast corridors and secret rooms of the tower stronghold, an unknown enemy watches and waits to usurp the usurpers...

A linguist, studying languages on a previously unknown alien planet, begins to suspect that humans may have visited the planet at some time in the past.

The Cold War Corps was to be the instrument of salvation in freeing Earth from the tyranny of the Haijac Union. It was Doctor Leif Barker's idea, but he was being kept in the dark by his bosses in the March Republic about what the CWC was really doing. Its network of spies spread throughout the world, working towards the Ultimate Solution that would free the Jacks and turn them towards the True Religion.

But Barker had suspicions. Which was freedom, which was tyranny? Which of the two super-powers was really the villain of this terrifying tomorrow? In a mad world where love was a sin and sex a crime against humanity he had to discover quickly - before the day of ... Timestop!

An expaned and revised version of the novella "Moth and Rust" (Startling Stories, 1953), the novel was originally published under the title A Woman a Day. The 1973 Quartet Books edition used the title Timestop!

Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in the anthology Omega (1973), edited by Roger Elwood. The story can also be found in the anthologies Best SF: 1974 (1975), edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss, Nebula Award Stories Ten (1975), edited by James Gunn and The Apes of Wrath (2013), edited by Richard Klaw. It is included in the collections The Classic Philip José Farmer, 1964-1973 (1984), The Grand Adventure (1984) and The Best of Philip Jose Farmer (2006).

Through the tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs, generations of readers have thrilled to the adventures of Lord Greystoke (aka John Clayton, but better known as Tarzan of the Apes). In this biography Philip José Farmer pieces together the life of this fantastic man, correcting Burroughs's errors and deliberate deceptions and tracing Tarzan's family tree back to other extraordinary figures, including Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes, the Scarlet Pimpernel, Doc Savage, Nero Wolfe, and Bulldog Drummond.

Tarzan Alive offers the first chronological account of Tarzan's life, narrated in careful detail garnered from Burroughs's stories and other sources. From the ill-fated voyage that led to Greystoke's birth on the isolated African coast to his final adventures as a group captain in the RAF during World War II, Farmer constructs a comprehensive and authoritative account. Farmer's assertion that Tarzan was a real person has led him to craft a biography as well researched and compelling as that of any character from conventional history.

He is the greatest hero of our time--Doc Savage!

Philip José Farmer, three-time Hugo award winner and Science Fiction Grand Master, has turned his superb research and narrative skills to one of the greatest heroes of our time: Doc Savage, the bronze champion of justice.

Now, at last, the incredible life story of the real man behind the Doc Savage pulp novels, including:

His true name and family background, covering his relationship to Lord Greystoke, Sherlock Holmes, Sam Spade, James Bond, and Fu Manchu.

Detailed information on some of his most devilish opponents--John Sunlight, the Mystic Mullah, and Mr. Wail.

A summation of some of Doc's most amazing inventions.

Biographies of the Fabulous Five--Monk, Ham, Renny, Long Tom, and Johnny--as well as the group's Lady Auxiliary and Bronze Knockout, Pat Savage!

Together with other data and brilliant deductions, Philip José Farmer offers an amazing account of this remarkable man's astonishing career!

Holmes and Watson take to the skies in the quest of the nefarious Von Bork and his weapon of dread... A night sky aerial engagement with the deadly Fokker nearly claims three brilliant lives... And an historic alliance is formed, whereby Baker Street's enigmatic mystery-solver and Greystoke, the noble savage, peer of the realm and lord of the jungle, team up to bring down the hellish hun!

The Titan reissue has been retitled as The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Peerless Peer.

Three men and a woman onboard a timeship travel from 2070 AD to 12,000 BC - a journey that could never be repeated. For the passengers, all anthropologists, it was a once-in-a-million-lifetimes expedition... a chance to study primitive man as modern man never could. But none of them was prepared for what they would discover - or for the impact of their travels in a time that had yet to come...

A novel in the Wold Newton universe, in which characters such as Sherlock Holmes, Flash Gordon, Doc Savage, James Bond and Jack the Ripper are all mysteriously connected.

Kidnapped by an insane millionare bent on recreating the famous Lord of the Jungle, Ras Tyger is raised in a remote African valley by people he believes to be apes.

Heroic, and beautiful, he is master of his world. And he rules his kingdom with sex, savagery, and sublime innocence. 

But the laws of nature and those of man are about to collide....

When Robert Wolff found a strange horn in an empty house, he held the key to a different universe. To blow that horn would open up a door through space-time and permit entry to a cosmos whose dimensions and laws were not those known by our starry galaxy.

For that other universe was a place of tiers, world upon world piled upon each other like the landings of a sky piercing mountain. The one to blow that horn would ascend those steps, from creation to creation, until he would come face to face with the being whose brain-child it was. But what if that maker of universes was a madman? Or an imposter? Or a super-criminal hiding from the wrath of his own superiors?

Imagine a whole series of separate universes, made to suit the whims of a race of super-beings. Imagine these universes with their own laws, cultures, creatures and ecologies-all existing only to please the fancies of their individual master. Then imagine one such universe constructed as a diabolical trap to destroy a single person-the man called Robert Wolff, one of the race of universe-makers, and once of Earth. When the satanic Master-Lord, Urizen, kidnaps Wolff's wife, he forces Wolff to enter the deadly universe of ambushes, filled with every kind of tortuous snare that the evil mind of the Master-Lord can devise. Wolf has only his courage and his wits which to combat this cosmic maze-unless he can perform a miracle, he and Chrysalis are doomed.

It was a world of tiers and layers - the Amerind level, the Garden of Eden level, theTalanac, the Atlantean - a universe of green skies and fabled beasts. It was the playground-cosmos of the Lord Jadawin, with transgravitational gates to the other levels and other worlds. But now those gates were being sabotaged to permit the entry of an invading force of 'Sellers' - human bodies housing the transferred minds of rebel Lords - and their minions, who were seeking two things: total domination of every Lord's private cosmos, now that they had achieved immortality, and the life of Kickaha the Trickster, who knew too much…

BEHIND THE WALLS OF TERRA .... LAY THE SECRET NO MAN COULD BE ALLOWED TO LEARN!

Kickaha was the name by which Paul Janus Finnegan, adventurer had been known on the artificial universes created by that super-race known as the Lords. And though Earthman and mortal, he had survived the worst they could throw at him.

But it was to be upon his return to Earth that Kickaha was to face his greatest trial. For once back on the streets of an American city, armed with the knowledge of the forces that moved the heavens, he was a target for the cosmic venom of the powers that contended for this very universe.

BEHIND THE WALLS OF TERRA lay a secret no human could learn - and live. But Kickaha had learned it - and he was not going to take it lying down!

The Lavalite World is a world of slow but constant change. The very landscape moves. Here mountains rise from plains or sink into rifts. New oceans form as vast hollows collapse and seas rush in. And there is only one escape from this bizarre planet: the one gateway to other universes is in the palace of the Lord Urthona. Paul Janus Finnegan - also known as Kjckaha - must reach it if he is to survive. And he must do so despite the Lords Urthona and Red Ore, the hired thug McKay, flesh-eating vegetation on the run, assorted strange beasts of prey, and planetary pseudopods . . .

In 1978, Dr James Giannini invented Tiersian therapy, based on Farmer's series "World of Tiers". In this novel, Jim Grimson, undergoing Tiersian therapy, actually travels to worlds inhabited by the arrogant superrace, the Lords, and the Earthman's deadly foe, Red Orc.

Philip José Farmer returns to his towering World of Tiers, where immortal Lords fight bloody wars over a host of pocket universes.

Kickaha, a freedom-seeking wanderer from the planet Earth, meets his archenemy, the most powerful of the decadent interstellar lords, Lord Red Orc, in a final battle that will determine the fate of the universes.