The Locus Index to Science Fiction

Books, Listed by Author

FARMER, PHILIP JOSÉ (stories) (continued)

• * _The Magic Labyrinth (Grafton 0-586-05387-5, 1986 [Dec ’86], £2.95, 496pp, pb) [Riverworld] Reissue (Putnam 1980) sf novel. Volume 4 in the “Riverworld” series.
• * _The Magic Labyrinth (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-41970-7, Aug ’98 [Jul ’98], $12.95, 398pp, tp, cover by John Stevens) [Riverworld] Reprint (Putnam 1980) SF novel, fourth in the “Riverworld” series.
• * _The Maker of Universes (Berkley 0-425-07378-5, Sep ’84 [Aug ’84], $2.75, 247pp, pb) [World of Tiers] Reprint (Ace 1965) sf novel, first in the “World of Tiers” series.
• * *More Than Fire (Tor 0-312-85280-0, Oct ’93 [Sep ’93], $20.95, 304pp, hc, cover by Boris Vallejo) [World of Tiers] Sf novel, sixth book of the “World of Tiers” series.
• * _More Than Fire (SFBC #02156, Dec ’93 [Nov ’93], $9.98, 304pp, hc, cover by Boris Vallejo) [World of Tiers] Reprint (Tor 1993) sf novel, sixth book of the “World of Tiers” series. Similar to the Tor edition except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
• * _More Than Fire (Tor 0-812-51959-0, Feb ’95 [Jan ’95], $5.99, 312pp, pb, cover by Boris Vallejo) [World of Tiers] Reprint (Tor 1993) SF novel, sixth and final book of the “World of Tiers” series.
• * *Nothing Burns in Hell (Tor/Forge 0-312-86470-1, May ’98 [Apr ’98], $22.95, 287pp, hc, cover by Thomas Canty) Associational mystery set in the dark underside of Peoria, IL.
• * _The Other Log of Phileas Fogg (Tor 0-812-53757-2, Feb ’88 [Jan ’88], $3.50, 303pp, pb) Reissue (DAW 1973) sf novel, second printing. Uncredited illustrations by Rick J. Bryant.
• * _The Other Log of Phileas Fogg (Tor 0-812-52468-3, Apr ’93 [Mar ’93], $4.99, 303pp, pb, cover by Vincent DiFate) Reissue (DAW 1973) Vernian sf novel with uncredited illustrations by Rick J. Bryant; third printing.
• * _A Private Cosmos (Berkley 0-425-07299-1, Nov ’84 [Oct ’84], $2.75, 275pp, pb) [World of Tiers] Reprint (Ace 1968) sf novel, Book III of the “World of Tiers” series.
• * *Red Orc’s Rage (Tor 0-312-85036-0, Sep ’91 [Aug ’91], $18.95, 282pp, hc, cover by Doug Beekman) Fantasy novel in which a boy undergoes Tiersian therapy, an imaginative roleplaying therapeutic technique based on Farmer’s “World of Tiers” series. There is an afterword by the therapist, Dr. James Giannini.
• * _Red Orc’s Rage (Tor 0-812-50890-4, Dec ’92 [Nov ’92], $4.99, 282pp, pb, cover by Doug Beekman) Reprint (Tor 1991) quasi-fantasy novel in which a boy undergoes Tiersian therapy, an imaginative roleplaying theraputic technique based on Farmer’s “World of Tiers” series. There is an afterword by the therapist, Dr. James Giannini.
• * _Red Orc’s Rage (Grafton 0-586-21122-5, Jun ’93, £4.99, 282pp, pb) Reprint (Tor 1991) fantasy novel about a 20th-century boy who enters the “World of Tiers” universe as part of his psychotherapy. [First U.K. edition]
• * *Riders of the Purple Wage (Tor 0-812-51905-1, Apr ’92 [Mar ’92], $3.99, 216pp, pb, cover by David Hardy) Collection of eight short stories, including one not previously in book form. (Contents)
• * _Riverworld and Other Stories (Grafton 0-586-05379-4, 1986 [Dec ’86], £2.50, 303pp, pb) Reissue (Berkley 1979) sf collection.
• * _Stations of the Nightmare (Tor 0-812-53773-4, Nov ’88 [Oct ’88], $3.95, 256pp, pb) Reissue (Tor 1982) fantasy novel. Illustrations by Peter Kuper. This is probably the second printing, although only the 1982 one is mentioned on the copyright page.
• * _Time’s Last Gift (Tor 0-812-53764-5, Mar ’85 [Feb ’85], $2.95, 352pp, pb) Reprint (Ballantine 1972; revised ed. Ballantine 1977) sf novel. This edition follows the 1977 revised text.
• * _To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Easton Press no ISBN, Apr ’89 [Mar ’89], no price, 221pp, hc) [Riverworld] Reprint (Putnam 1971) sf novel, first book in the “Riverworld” series; with color plates by Richard Powers, and a new introduction by Roger Zelazny. This special leatherbound gilt-edge edition is part of the “Masterpieces of SF” series and is available by subscription only. This edition is dated 1986 but not seen until now.
• * _To Your Scattered Bodies Go (HarperCollins UK 0-586-03939-2, Sep ’93, £4.99, 206pp, pb) [Riverworld] Reprint (Putnam 1971) sf novel. Volume one in the “Riverworld” series.
• * _To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-41967-7, Jul ’98 [Jun ’98], $12.95, 217pp, tp, cover by John Stevens) [Riverworld] Reprint (Putnam 1971) Hugo-winning SF novel, first in the “Riverworld” series.
• * _Traitor to the Living (Tor 0-812-53766-1, Jan ’85 [Dec ’84], $2.95, 286pp, pb) [Herald Childe] Reprint (Ballantine 1973) sf novel.
• * _Traitor to the Living (Tor 0-812-52397-0, Feb ’93 [Jan ’93], $4.99, 286pp, pb, cover by Victoria Poyser) [Herald Childe] Reissue (Ballantine 1973) sf novel; second printing.
• * _Two Hawks from Earth (Berkley 0-425-08092-7, Jul ’85 [Jun ’85], $2.95, 311pp, pb) Reprint (Ace 1979) sf novel. A rewritten and expanded version of The Gate of Time (Belmont 1966). A modern man on a primitive parallel earth.
• * _Venus on the Half Shell (Bantam Spectra 0-553-27531-3, Sep ’88 [Aug ’88], $3.95, 178pp, pb) Reprint (Dell 1974 as by “Kilgore Trout”) satirical sf takeoff on Vonnegut. There is an interesting new introduction by Farmer.
• * _The World of Tiers (Tor 0-312-85761-6, Dec ’96 [Nov ’96], $15.95, 443pp, tp, cover by Boris Vallejo) [World of Tiers] Reprint (Sphere 1986) omnibus of the first three novels in the “World of Tiers” series: The Maker of Universes (Ace 1965), The Gates of Creation (Ace 1966), and A Private Cosmos (Ace 1968). A hc edition (-85762-4, $27.95) was also announced.
• * *World of Tiers 1 (Sphere 0-7221-3514-9, Nov ’86, £3.95, 467pp, pb) [World of Tiers] Omnibus edition of the first three sf novels in the “World of Tiers” series. (Contents)
• * *World of Tiers 2 (Sphere 0-7221-3515-7, Nov ’86, £3.95, 325pp, pb) [World of Tiers] Omnibus edition of the last two sf novels in the “World of Tiers” series. These volumes would be a reprint of the 1981 SFBC edition if A Private Cosmos were in volume 2 instead of volume 1. (Contents)
• * _The World of Tiers Volume One (SFBC #02226, Dec ’93 [Nov ’93], $9.98, 312pp, hc, cover by Boris Vallejo) [World of Tiers] Reissue (SFBC 1981) omnibus of the first and second “World of Tiers” books.
• * _The World of Tiers Volume Two (SFBC #02226, Dec ’93 [Nov ’93], $9.98, 532pp, hc, cover by Boris Vallejo) [World of Tiers] Reissue (SFBC 1981) omnibus of the third, fourth, and fifth “World of Tiers” books.
• * _The World of Tiers, Volume 2 (Tor 0-312-86377-2, Dec ’97 [Nov ’97], $19.95, 544pp, tp, cover by Boris Vallejo) [World of Tiers] Reprint (Sphere 1986) omnibus of the fourth through sixth novels in the “World of Tiers” series: Behind the Walls of Terra (1970), The Lavalite World (1977), and More Than Fire (1993). A hardcover edition (-86376-4, $25.95) was announced but not seen.

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• * *Quest to Riverworld (Warner Questar 0-446-36270-0, Aug ’93 [Jul ’93], $5.50, 328pp, pb, cover by Don Ivan Punchatz) [Riverworld] Original shared-world anthology of 14 stories set on Farmer’s Riverworld, including an original story by him. Copyrighted by Farmer and uncredited co-editors Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg, and Edward E. Kramer. (Contents)
• * *Tales of Riverworld (Warner Questar 0-446-36269-7, Aug ’92 [Jul ’92], $4.99, 326pp, pb, cover by Don Ivan Punchatz) [Riverworld] Original shared-world anthology of nine stories set on Farmer’s Riverworld, with an introduction and part of a serial by him. (Contents)

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• * *Naked Came the Farmer (Mayfly Productions 0-9624613-7-7, May ’98, $12.95, 160pp, tp) Associational humorous round-robin “rural romance and murder mystery” novel by 13 authors, published as a benefit for The Friends of the Peoria Public Library, and originally serialized in several Illinois newspapers. Authors include Philip José Farmer, Nancy Atherton, Steven Burgauer, and Tracy Knight. Order from Naked Came the Farmer, PO Box 192, Peoria IL 61650; add $3.00 postage. (Contents)

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• * _The Magic Labyrinth of Philip Jose Farmer See entry under Edgar L. Chapman.
• * _Philip José Farmer: A Working Bibliography See entry under Phil Stephensen-Payne.

FARRAND, PHIL

• * *The Nitpicker’s Guide for Classic Trekkers (Delta 0-440-50683-2, Nov ’94 [Oct ’94], $12.95, 393pp, tp) [Star Trek] Unauthorized Star Trek blooper book.
• * _The Nitpicker’s Guide for Classic Trekkers (SFBC #59519, Dec ’94 [Nov ’94], $9.98, 393pp, hc, cover by Bob Larkin) [Star Trek] Reprint (Dell Delta 1994) unauthorized Star Trek blooper book. This is the first hardcover edition, but is otherwise similar to the Dell trade paperback edition, except it lacks a price and has an SFBC code number on the back jacket.
• * _The Nitpicker’s Guide for Classic Trekkers (Titan 1-85286-587-3, Dec ’94, £7.99, 393pp, tp, cover by Bob Larkin) [Star Trek] Reprint (Delta 1994) guide to bloopers, plot discrepancies, and similar in Star Trek. [First U.K. edition]
• * *The Nitpicker’s Guide for Next Generation Trekkers (Dell 0-440-50571-2, Nov ’93 [Oct ’93], $12.95, 933pp, tp) [Star Trek, the Next Generation] Non-fiction. A guide to everything that’s wrong with each individual episode of Star Trek, the Next Generation, from bloopers to plot problems.
• * _The Nitpicker’s Guide for Next Generation Trekkers (SFBC #02308, Jan ’94, $9.98, 933pp, hc, cover by Bob Larkin) [Star Trek, the Next Generation] Reprint (Dell 1993) media non-fiction. A guide to everything that’s wrong with each individual episode of Star Trek, the Next Generation, from bloopers to plot problems. This edition lacks an ISBN and price, and has the SFBC number on the back jacket. First hardcover edition.
• * _The Nitpicker’s Guide for Next Generation Trekkers (Titan 1-85286-513-X, Jan ’94, £7.99, 433pp, tp, cover by Bob Parkin) [Star Trek, the Next Generation] Reprint (Dell 1993) guide to bloopers, plot discrepancies, and such-like in Star Trek, the Next Generation. [First U.K. edition]
• * *The Nitpicker’s Guide for Next Generation Trekkers, Vol. II (Dell/DTP 0-440-50716-2, Nov ’95 [Oct ’95], $12.95, 406pp, tp, cover by Bob Larkin) [Star Trek, the Next Generation] Unauthorized Star Trek blooper book, the second volume to cover ST:TNG.
• * _The Nitpicker’s Guide for Next Generation Trekkers, Vol. II (Titan 1-85286-671-3, Dec ’95, £7.99, 407pp, tp, cover by Bob Larkin) [Star Trek, the Next Generation] Reprint (Dell/DTP 1995) guide to bloopers, plot discrepancies and similar in Star Trek: The Next Generation. [First U.K. edition]
• * _The Nitpicker’s Guide for Next Generation Trekkers, Vol. II (SFBC #10710, Feb ’96 [Jan ’96], $9.98, 407pp, hc, cover by Bob Larkin) [Star Trek, the Next Generation] Reprint (Dell/DTP 1995) Star Trek bloopers and trivia guide. This is the first hardcover edition, but is otherwise similar to the Dell trade paperback. The jacket has no price, and has an SFBC number on the back.

FARRAR, STEWART (1916-2000)

• * *Backlash (Robert Hale 0-7090-3073-8, May ’88 [Dec ’88], £10.75, 191pp, hc) Novel about witchcraft in 16th century England.
• * *Forcible Entry (Robert Hale 0-7090-2651-X, Mar ’86, £8.95, 224pp, hc) Novel of sexual identity and its occult overtones.

FARREN, MICK (1943- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * *The Armageddon Crazy (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-35316-1, May ’89 [Apr ’89], $3.95, 282pp, pb) Near-future sf novel about an America where religious fundamentalists take control and suspend constitutional rights; written in hard boiled mystery style.
• * _Armageddon Crazy (Orbit 0-7474-0470-4, Apr ’90, £3.50, 282pp, pb) Reprint (Del Rey 1989 as The Armageddon Crazy) sf novel.
• * _Citizen Phaid (Ace 0-441-10602-1, Jan ’87 [Dec ’86], $2.95, 234pp, pb) [Phaid the Gambler] Hardboiled near-future sf novel. First American edition. This and the earlier part, Phaid the Gambler (Ace 1986) were first published in England as one volume, The Song of Phaid the Gambler (NEL 1981).
• * *Corpse (NEL 0-450-05841-7, Aug ’86, £2.50, 304pp, pb) Horror/sf novel of megacorporations and WWIII.
• * _Exit Funtopia (Sphere 0-7474-0140-3, Aug ’89, £3.50, 264pp, pb) Reprint (Del Rey 1988 as The Long Orbit) sf/mystery novel. [First U.K. edition]
• * +The Feelies (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-36186-5, Jun ’90 [May ’90], $3.95, 197pp, pb, cover by David Schleinkofer) Sf novel of a machine that allows you to live out your fantasies and the corporate intrigue surrounding it. Revised from an earlier British edition (Big O 1978).
• * *The Last Stand of the DNA Cowboys (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-35808-2, Sep ’89 [Aug ’89], $3.95, 283pp, pb) [DNA Cowboys] Sf adventure novel, a loose sequel to a trilogy consisting of The Quest of the DNA Cowboys, The Synaptic Manhunt, and The Neural Atrocity, all published in Britain in the mid-1970’s.
• * _The Last Stand of the DNA Cowboys (Orbit 0-7474-0469-0, Oct ’90, £3.50, 283pp, pb) [DNA Cowboys] Reprint (Del Rey 1989) sf novel. Volume 4 in the “DNA Cowboys” series.
• * *The Long Orbit (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-35318-8, Sep ’88 [Aug ’88], $3.95, 264pp, pb) Sf/mystery novel of a futuristic Sam Spade.
• * _The Long Orbit (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-35318-8, Mar ’90 [Feb ’90], $3.95, 264pp, pb, cover by David Schleinkofer) Reissue (Del Rey 1988) sf/pi novel; second printing.
• * *Mars—The Red Planet (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-35809-0, Mar ’90 [Feb ’90], $3.95, 315pp, pb, cover by David Schleinkofer) Sf novel of cold war intrigue surrounding an alien artifact on a KGB-controlled Mars.
• * *Necrom (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-36185-7, Feb ’91 [Jan ’91], $4.95, 371pp, pb, cover by Peter Gudynas) Sf novel about a has-been rocker traveling between dimensions to save the universe from an ancient evil.
• * +Phaid the Gambler (Ace 0-441-66232-3, Aug ’86 [Jul ’86], $3.50, 296pp, pb) [Phaid the Gambler] “Hard-boiled” sf novel of a far-future Earth, first of a series. First American edition (NEL 1981 as The Song of Phaid the Gambler, which included the second half, to be published next year as Citizen Phaid.)
• * *Protectorate (NEL 0-450-05708-9, Nov ’84 [Oct ’84], £1.95/$4.95, 252pp, pb) Sf novel.
• * +Protectorate (Ace 0-441-68680-X, Jan ’85 [Dec ’84], $2.75, 250pp, pb) Reprint (NEL 1984) sf novel. First U.S. edition.
• * _Protectorate (NEL 0-450-05708-9, Aug ’87, £2.95, 251pp, pb) Reissue (NEL 1984) sf novel.
• * _The Song of Phaid the Gambler (NEL 0-450-05343-1, Aug ’87, £3.95, 537pp, pb) Reissue (NEL 1981) sf novel.
• * *Their Master’s War (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-34554-1, Jan ’88 [Dec ’87], $3.50, 295pp, pb) Sf novel about human soldiers a la Starship Troopers fighting alien wars.
• * _Their Master’s War (Sphere 0-7474-0269-8, Dec ’88, £3.50, 295pp, pb) Reprint (Del Rey 1987) sf novel. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Their Master’s War (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-34554-1, May ’89 [Apr ’89], $3.95, 295pp, pb) Reissue (Del Rey 1987) sf novel; fourth printing.
• * *The Time of Feasting (Tor 0-312-86213-X, Dec ’96 [Nov ’96], $23.95, 384pp, hc) [Time of Feasting] Vampire novel. A colony of vampires in NYC is in danger of being uncovered by an ex-priest and a cop.
• * _The Time of Feasting (Tor 0-812-53874-9, Sep ’98 [Aug ’98], $6.99, 384pp, pb) [Time of Feasting] Reprint (Tor 1996) vampire novel.
• * +Vickers (Ace 0-441-86290-X, Jul ’88 [Jun ’88], $3.50, 263pp, pb) Hardboiled sf novel of a corrupt future with “megacorps, A-boys, ghoulies, and gutterjumps.” First American edition (NEL 1986 as Corpse).

FARRINGTON, GEOFFREY; pseudonym of Geoffrey Smith, (1955- ) (stories)

• * *The Acts of the Apostates (Dedalus 0-946626-46-4, Apr ’90, £6.99, 272pp, tp) Literary fantasy novel. Distributed in the US by Hippocrene Books.

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• * *The Dedalus Book of Roman Decadence: Emperors of Debauchery (Dedalus 1-873982-16-X, Apr ’94 [Mar ’94], £7.99, 234pp, tp, cover by Gustave Moreau) Literary fantasy anthology. Two dozen selections of Ancient Roman prose, poetry and history, including much fantasy, translated by Brian & Adrian Murdoch. Available in the USA from Hippocrene Press at $14.95.

FARRIS, JOHN (L.) (1936- ) (stories) (assoc.)

• * _All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By (Tor 0-812-58264-0, Jan ’86, $3.50, 350pp, pb) Reprint (1977) supernatural fantasy/horror novel of African sorcery and a Southern U.S. family.
• * _The Axeman Cometh (Hodder & Stoughton 0-340-52226-7, Feb ’90, £11.95, 160pp, hc) Reprint (Tor 1989) horror novel. First World hardcover edition.
• * _The Axeman Cometh (NEL 0-450-53717-X, Jan ’91 [Dec ’90], £3.50, 269pp, pb) Reprint (Tor 1989) horror novel.
• * *The Axman Cometh (Tor 0-812-50008-3, Jul ’89 [Jun ’89], $4.50, 269pp, pb) Horror novel about a woman trapped in an elevator with the man who may have murdered her family twenty years before.
• * _Bad Blood (Gollancz 0-575-04648-1, Oct ’89, £3.99, 350pp, pb, cover by Danny Flynn) Reprint (Playboy 1977 as All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By) horror novel.
• * _Catacombs (Tor 0-812-58272-1, Jan ’87 [Dec ’86], $3.95, 522pp, pb) Reprint (1981) horror novel of evil creatures unearthed from Mt. Kilimanjaro by archaeologists.
• * _Catacombs (NEL 0-450-05580-9, Aug ’93 [Jul ’93], £4.99, 493pp, pb) Reissue (Delacorte 1981) horror novel; third printing.
• * _Dragonfly (Severn House 0-7278-5159-4, Feb ’97 [Jan ’97], £17.99, 506pp, hc) Reprint (Tor 1995) associational novel with fantasy elements. First UK hardcover.
• * *Fiends (Dark Harvest 0-913165-16-6, Apr ’90, $19.95, 314pp, hc, cover by Phil Parks) Horror novel about the sole survivor of a mass disappearance. A limited edition ($45.00) was announced but not seen.
• * _Fiends (Tor 0-812-51786-5, Sep ’90 [Aug ’90], $4.95, 438pp, pb, cover by Joe DeVito) Reprint (Dark Harvest 1990) vampire horror novel.
• * _Fiends (Grafton 0-246-13774-6, Mar ’91, £13.99, 331pp, hc, cover by Tim White) Reprint (Dark Harvest 1990) horror novel.
• * _Fiends (Grafton 0-586-21192-6, Aug ’92 [Jul ’92], £4.99, 430pp, pb, cover by Tim White) Reprint (Dark Harvest 1990) horror novel about the Icelandic huldufólk in modern America.
• * _The Fury (Tor 0-812-58262-4, Dec ’85 [Nov ’85], $3.50, 349pp, pb) [Fury] Reprint (Playboy 1976) horror novel. A movie was made from the book.
• * _The Fury (Grafton 0-586-21303-1, Feb ’92, £3.99, 349pp, pb, cover by Steve Crisp) [Fury] Reprint (Dell 1976) horror novel.
• * _The Fury (Severn House 0-7278-4441-5, Mar ’93, £13.99, 349pp, hc, cover by Robert Welch) [Fury] Reprint (Playboy 1976) horror novel.
• * _The Fury (Tor 0-812-51784-9, Sep ’94 [Nov ’94], $4.99, 349pp, pb, cover by John Melo) [Fury] Reissue (Tor 1985) horror novel. Fourth printing.
• * _King Windom (Tor 0-812-51793-8, Apr ’90, $4.95, 568pp, pb, cover by Gary Smith) Reprint (Playboy 1967) mainstream novel with some psychic content, packaged as a horror novel.
• * *The Minotaur (Tor 0-8125-8258-6, 1985, $3.95, 384pp, pb) Horror novel.
• * _Minotaur (NEL 0-450-05900-6, Jan ’94, £4.99, 373pp, pb) Reissue (Tor 1985) horror novel.
• * _Minotaur (Severn House 0-7278-4585-3, Mar ’94 [Apr ’94], £14.99, 373pp, hc, cover by Martin Buchan) Reprint (Tor 1985) horror novel. First world hardcover.