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About Philip José Farmer

Philip José Farmer (January 26, 1918 – February 25, 2009) was an American author known for his science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories.

Farmer is best known for two sequences of novels, the World of Tiers (1965–93) and Riverworld (1971–83) series. He is noted for the pioneering use of sexual and religious themes in his work, his fascination for, and reworking of, the lore of celebrated pulp heroes, and occasional tongue-in-cheek pseudonymous works written as if by fictional characters. Farmer often mixed real and classic fictional characters and worlds and real and fake authors as epitomized by his Wold Newton family books, which tie classic fictional characters together as real people and blood relatives resulting from an alien conspiracy. Such works as The Other Log of Phileas Fogg (1973) and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life (1973) are early examples of literary mashup novels.

Literary critic Leslie Fiedler compared Farmer to Ray Bradbury, describing both as "provincial American eccentrics" who "strain at the classic limits of the [science fiction] form," but found Farmer distinctive for his capacity "to be at once naive and sophisticated in his odd blending of theology, pornography, and adventure."

Philip José Farmer writes about Fiction, science fiction, general, American Science fiction, Fiction, Science fiction, Fiction, general, and Riverworld (imaginary place), fiction. Their best-known work is To your scattered bodies go.

On FindMyTBR we track 25 books by Philip José Farmer, 13 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including Dark Is the Sun, Gods of Riverworld (Riverworld), and Les amants étrangers. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.