Philip Jose Farmer

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  • Bibliography:
    95 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1954
  • Latest Book:
    August 2019
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Full Series List in Order

Dayworld

1 - Dayworld (Jan-1985)
2 - Dayworld Rebel (Jun-1987)
3 - Dayworld Breakup (May-1990)

Khokarsa (Wold Newton Prehistory)

1 - Hadon of Ancient Opar (Jan-2013)

Riverworld

1 - To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1972)
2 - The Fabulous Riverboat (1971)
3 - The Dark Design (Sep-1977)
4 - The Magic Labyrinth (Jun-1980)
5 - Gods of Riverworld (Oct-1983)
6 - Riverworld and Other Stories (Nov-1979)
Tales of Riverworld (Aug-1992)
Quest to Riverworld (Aug-1993)

A Wold Newton Novel

A Feast Unknown (Jun-1983)
Other Log of Phileas Fogg (Feb-1988)
The Lord of the Trees (Nov-2012)
The Mad Goblin (Jun-2013)

A World of Tiers Novel

1 - The Maker of Universes, the Gates of Creatio (1966)
2 - Behind the Walls of Terra (1970)
More Than Fire (Sep-1993)
The World of Tiers (Dec-1997)

Multi-Author Series List

Doc Savage

182 - Escape from Loki (Jul-1991)

Book List in Order: 95 titles

  • Queen of the Deep

    Jones was on his way on a Luxury Liner when it was suddenly blown up. He is captured by a robotic enemy submarine. The secret high-tech sub has a robot with a definite female voice and character and "she" is a weapon of war. It drugs, prods him and e...

  • Heel & The Wounded

    Two stories from Science Fiction Grand Master, Philip José Farmer.Heel -- There's a great movie being made thousands of years in our past. The Director is Zeus and the screenplay writer is Apollo. Their actors are Achilles and the cast of the Troj...

  • Flesh

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    A starship crew returns to a primitive, post-apocalyptic -- and deadly -- Earth in this classic adventure by a Science Fiction Grand Master. After eight centuries of exploring the stars, Space Capt. Peter Stagg and his starship crew return to Earth t...

  • Tongues of the Moon

    Earth was dying. Possibly the only human beings left in the Universe were those on the Moon. On this last outpost of humanity, the age-old controversy between ideologies continued to tear the human race apart, as each group prepared to unleash the de...

  • Dare

    • 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...

  • The Maker of Universes, the Gates of Creatio

    A World of Tiers Novel - 1

    Robert Wolff, 66, had opened the door -- to discover not a closet, but another world. It was an Eden populated by strange and lovely creatures, and after living there a few days, Wolff actually grew young again. He saw no reason to return to Earth; t...

  • A Private Cosmos

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    Kickaha had made a life for himself on each of the tiers -- an existence which did occasionally cause him problems. He managed to cope with most of them without losing his innate good spirits, but the "Black Bellers" were a different story. They were...

  • Riders of the Purple Wage

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    A collection of short science fiction takes readers on a voyage through time with St. Francis, into a brutal future city where sterilization is the only cure to poverty, and to a struggle between alien beings and the IRS. Original....

  • Behind the Walls of Terra

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    A World of Tiers Novel - 2

    All they knew was that one of the dreamed Bellers had escaped to Earth, and so Kickaha and Jadawin's beautiful sister, Anana, had joined forces to track the evil one down. Their mission was far more dangerous than either of them expected, however. Fo...



  • The Fabulous Riverboat

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    Riverworld - 2

    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...

  • Down in the Black

  • To Your Scattered Bodies Go

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    Riverworld - 1

    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 stra...

  • Time's Last Gift

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    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 ...

  • Lord Tyger

    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, s...

  • Traitor to the Living

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  • The Book of Philip Jose Farmer

    DAW Books, collector's No. 63, paperback original, 1973. Foreword by Farmer and these works: My Sister's Brother (1960); Skinburn (1972); The Alley Man (1959); Father's in the Basement (1972); Toward the Beloved City (1972); Polytropical Paramyths (e...

  • The Adventure of the Peerless Peer

    The Aspen Press, 1974. Hardcover with dustjacket, stated first edition. Philip Jose Farmer, writes as Dr. John H. Watson, about the meeting of Sherlock Holmes and Tarzan. This was one of several works Farmer wrote that involved Tarzan....

  • Inside Outside

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  • Mother Was a Lovely Beast

    Anthology. Contributor Olaf Baker (Shasta of the Wolves); George Bruce (Scream of the Condor); Edgar Rice Burroughs (God of Tarzan); William L. Chester (One Against a Wilderness (Part 1)); Philip Jose Farmer (Extracts from the Memoirs of Lord Greystr...



  • The Dark Design

    Riverworld - 3

    A New York Times bestsesller, The Dark Design is the third novel in Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction legend Philip José Farmer's Riverworld series. Milton Firebrass, once Mark Twain's enemy and now his greatest ally, plans to build a gi...

  • Strange Relations

    Avon Equinox, 1974. Trade paperback. A very attractive edition of this 1960 collection of thematically linked tales: Mother (1953); Daughter (1954); Father (1955); Son (1954); My Sister's Brother (1960)....

  • The Wind Whales of Ishmael

    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 w...

  • Lovers

    Escaping the religious tyranny of a 31st-century Earth by a fluke assignment to the planet Ozagen, linguist Hal Yarrow found that the worst of Earth had followed him - Pornsen, his personal Guardian Angel, vigilant for any evidence of sin or wrong th...

  • Jesus on Mars

    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 th...

  • Dark Is the Sun

    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. But young Deyv of the Turtle Tribe knew nothing of his world's history or its fate. He lived only to track...

  • Riverworld and Other Stories

    Riverworld - 6

    Riverworld. To millions of readers it is as familiar as Earth -- this awesome planet where all humanity that ever lived, all 36 billion of us, from Tom Mix to Joan of Arc, are simultaneously reincarnated along the banks of a million-mile-river... Th...

  • Stone God Awakens

  • Lord of the Trees, the Mad Goblin

    Ace Books, 1980. Reprints the back-to-back Ace Double from 1970. Along with "A Feast Unknown" these are part of Farmer's Grandrith/Caliban series involving characters meant to mirror Tarzan and Doc Savage....

  • Ironcastle



  • The Magic Labyrinth

    Riverworld - 4

    Reissued to follow the Syfy Channel film of Riverworld, this fourth book in the classic Riverworld series continues the adventures of Samuel Clemens and Sir Richard Francis Burton as they travel through Farmer's strange and wonderful Riverworld, a pl...

  • A Woman a Day

    Post-holocaust Paris is a pretty seedy stand-in for the original, but hat can you expect when te government's main function is Orgasm Prevention, and when the national heor is wandering around in Nowhen... But things are changing! Rumor has it that t...

  • Riverworld War

  • Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life

  • Father to the Stars

    Paperback, one of three printings. Collection of Farmer's "Father Carmody" stories, including: The Night of Light (1957); A Few Miles (1960); Prometheus (1963); Father (1955); Attitudes (1953). Introduction by Roger Zelazny....

  • Hadon of Ancient Opa

    Twelve thousand years ago the great lost city of Opar was in its prime, with its Atlantean tradition, its fabled jewels, its living goddess and Hadon, son of ancient Opar, whose claim to a throne launches him upon an enthralling and dangerous venture...

  • The Lavalite World

    Urthona's private world was a place of sudden land shifts...of mountains that sank into valleys, and plains that rose into peaks. Kickaha was trapped there with Anana and three other reluctant companions -- and they were in desperate straits. Because...

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  • Flight to Opar

    Flight to Opar is a fantasy novel by Philip José Farmer, first published in paperback by DAW Books in June 1976, and reprinted twice through 1983. The first British edition was published by Magnum in 1977.[1] The novel is a sequel to Farmer's earlie...

  • Greatheart Silver



  • The Purple Book

  • A Feast Unknown

    A Wold Newton Novel

  • The Green Odyssey

    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,...

  • The Unreasoning Mask

    Ramstan, captain of the al-Buraq, a rare model spaceship capable of instantaneous travel between two points, attempts to stop an unidentified "creature" that is annihilating intelligent life on planets throughout the universe...

  • A Barnstormer in Oz

  • Gods of Riverworld

    Riverworld - 5

    Gods of Riverwold is the fifth and final chapter in Philip Jose Farmer's New York Times bestselling classic SF series, Riverworld Thirty billion people from throughout Earth's history have been resurrected along the great and winding waterways of Ri...

  • Night of Light

  • River of Eternity

  • Gates of Creation

    It was a game the Lords played. Jadawin knew that his father had stolen Chryseis, the woman he loved. The only way to rescue her was to find the gateway into his father's universe and bring her back. But the portal was difficult to locate, and even i...

  • Grand Adventure

    Whether it is in the inventiveness of his science fiction or the charades of his literary revisionism, Philip José Farmer's work has always been characterized by humor, psychological playfulness and sexuality. Winner of the highest accolades in scie...



  • Dayworld

    Dayworld - 1

    “Every bit as appealing as the Riverworld saga,” this brilliant high-concept dystopian novel features an overpopulated Earth under strict government control (Booklist).  Only by being watched may you become free.   It’s 3414 AD, the r...

  • Image of the Beast

    Award-winning author Philip José Farmer’s 1960s Science Fiction porn epic. Comprising The Image Of The Beast " An Exorcism, Ritual One, and Blown " An Exorcism, Ritual Two. This mind-blowing classic conjures a universe of unrelenting sexual de...

  • Two Hawks from Earth

    WWII bomber pilot Roger Two Hawks, an Iroquois Indian, is shot down over enemy territory. Hilt when he parachutes down to earth, he lands in no entry he's ever heard of before. The locals don't look or speak like Romanians, but instead more closely r...

  • Keepers of the Secrets

  • The Cache

  • Riverworld: The Great Short Fiction of Philip Jose Farmer

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  • The Alley Man

    in Neanderthals: Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction #6

  • Dayworld Rebel

    Dayworld - 2

    A daybreaker rebels on an overpopulated planet in this dystopian adventure by the author of the World of Tiers series.   Jeff Caird was once a daybreaker: a criminal who avoided government-required suspended animation by living seven different i...

  • Venus on the Half Shell

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    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 3,00...

  • Other Log of Phileas Fogg

    A Wold Newton Novel

    Inspired by Around the World in Eighty Days, this classic sci-fi steampunk tale combines aliens with iconic characters like Sherlock Holmes, Flash Gordon, and James Bond In a delicious slice of sci-fi whimsy that sits cleverly alongside Verne’s ori...

  • Stations of the Nightmare

  • Dayworld Breakup

    Dayworld - 3

    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 governmen...

  • Red Orc's Rage

  • Escape from Loki

    Doc Savage - 182

  • Tales of Riverworld

    Riverworld

    In this compilation of short stories, history meets the future as everyone who has ever lived awakens in Riverworld. Authors featured in the collection include Phillip C. Jennings, Harry Turtledove and Ed. Gorman....

  • Quest to Riverworld

    Riverworld

    By the banks of a ten-million-mile river, everyone who has ever died enjoys a new life, in a collection of science fiction stories--by Harry Turtledove, George Alec Essinger, and Philip Jose+a7 Farmer, among others. Original....

  • More Than Fire

    A World of Tiers Novel

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

  • The Maker of Universes

  • Tarzan's Greatest Secret

  • The World of Tiers

    A World of Tiers Novel

    The Tiers series chronicles the adventures of both Robert Wolff, a man from our world transported through space-time to a cosmos with dimensions and laws different from our own, and Kickaha the Trickster (a.k.a. Paul J. Finnegan, also from our con...

  • Naked Came the Farmer

    "A human head crashes through a window. A naked woman zooms by on a motorcycle. A sleazy lawmaker gets an arrow in the back. "That's life in central Illinois--or at least the twisted version of central Illinois concocted by 13 writers collaborating o...

  • Nothing Burns in Hell

    This one is for fans of Quentin Tarantino and of the ever-present gratuitous violence of Robert Altman. It is a direct descendant of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer and the mystery action pulps epitomized by Black Mask. Philip José Farmer, now one of ...

  • The Dark Heart of Time: A Tarzan Novel

    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 ...

  • Blown: An Exorcism

  • Tarzan Alive

    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 fan...

  • Up from the Bottomless Pit and Other Stories

    Limited to 250 signed numbered copies, in slipcase. Up from the Bottomless Pit is the ultimate collection for Philip Jose Farmer fans, including 140,000 words (roughly 400 pages) of very obscure, never-before-collected short stories, a novel beginnin...

  • Venus on the Half-Shell and Others

    Venus on the Half-Shell and Others collects for the first time the best of the best from Philip José Farmer's scintillating "fictional-author period."

    In the mid-1970s a fever-pitched furor was created when an actual novel purported to be by ...

  • The Other in the Mirror

    The Other in the Mirror brings together three classic novels by Philip José Farmer: Fire and the Night, Jesus on Mars, and Night of Light. All three are united by one of SF s central tropes, that of The Other.

    Fire and the Night is a mainstre...

  • The Evil in Pemberley House

    For over thirty years, readers have marveled at Philip José Farmer's inventive integration of popular fiction and literature's most beloved characters, in a mythical web known as the Wold Newton Family. First described in the fictional biographies...

  • Rastignac the Devil // Despoilers of the Golden Empire

    In the tradition of the old "Ace Doubles" two-in-one books (flip one over to read the second title) -- here is the third Wildside Double . . . "Rastignac the Devil," by Philip Jose Farmer and "Despoilers of the Golden Empire," by Randall Garrett. Two...

  • Some Fabulous Yonder

    No man had yet survived a landing on the black planet, till Raspold dared to venture his body and his mind in the cavern of Voittamaton, where the dracocentaurs gazed at some fabulous yonder! Farmer’s variation on the Chthulu Mythos of Lovecraft. F...

  • Up the Bright River

    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, t...

  • The Twinkled Like Jewels

  • The Peerless Peer

    Holmes partners with Tarzan on a quest to catch a nefarious German spy and his weapon of dread in this “glorious” sci-fi mystery from a Hugo Award"winning SFWA Grand Master (Locus) A night sky aerial engagement with a deadly Fokker aircraf...

  • The Lord of the Trees

    A Wold Newton Novel

    "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 stren...

  • Hadon of Ancient Opar

    Khokarsa (Wold Newton Prehistory) - 1

    Twelve thousand years ago the great lost city of Opar was in its prime, with its Atlantean tradition, its fabled jewels, its living goddess and Hadon, son of ancient Opar, whose claim to a throne launches him upon an enthralling and dangerous venture...

  • The Mad Goblin

    A Wold Newton Novel

    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 secre...

  • Tales of the Wold Newton Universe

    A collection of Wold Newton-inspired short stories by Farmerphiles, experts, and the Grand Master of SF himself.A real meteorite fell near Wold Newton, Yorkshire, England, on December 13, 1795, and was found to be radioactive, causing genetic mutatio...

  • The God Business

    When a mild-mannered college professor declares himself a god and takes over an Illinois town, declaring it his own Garden of Eden, what can be done? Especially when bullets and bombs refuse to explode and every man sent in to end the crisis doesn't ...

  • Dayworld a Hole in Wednesday

    Dayworld was born from the overpopulation and chaos of the late 21st century: live just one day out of seven, spend the rest in a suspended animation called stoning, and humanity will only need one-seventh of the resources it was consuming on its dyi...

  • The Song of Kwasin

    This first standalone edition of Philip José Farmer and Christopher Paul Carey's critically acclaimed novel, The Song of Kwasin -- the third volume of the Khokarsa series -- contains a host of rare and previously unpublished bonus materials, includi...

  • The Best of Farmerphile

    Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip José Farmer was a quarterly fanzine that ran fifteen issues from July 2005 to January 2009. Michael Croteau served as Publisher for all fifteen issues; Christopher Paul Carey and Paul Spiteri coedited the firs...

  • Tarzan and the Dark Heart of Time

    One of the most famous heroes in literature is back! Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, returns with a vengeance in this action-packed adventure by Philip José Farmer, Hugo Award winner, Nebula Grand Master, and author of the incredible Riverworld saga.

  • Greatheart Silver and Other Pulp Heroes

    Philip José Farmer had a life-long love affair with the pulps he read in his youth. They influenced nearly everything he wrote, but in the 1970s he paid special tribute to them with several stories. Greatheart Silver and Other Pulp Heroescollect...

  • Rastignac The Devil

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    After the Apocalyptic War, the decimated remnants of the French huddled in the Loire Valley were gradually squeezed between two new and growing nations. The Colossus to the north was unfriendly and obviously intended to absorb the little New France. ...

  • They Twinkled Like Jewels

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    Crane didn't get the nice man's name -- until it was far too late to do anything at all about it....

Award-Winning Books by Philip Jose Farmer

To Your Scattered Bodies Go
1972 Hugo Award -- Novel


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Philip Jose Farmer has published 95 books.

Philip Jose Farmer does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Greatheart Silver and Other Pulp Heroes, was published in August 2019.

The first book by Philip Jose Farmer, Queen of the Deep, was published in March 1954.

Yes. Philip Jose Farmer has 5 series.
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