Philip José Farmer bibliography


In a writing career spanning more than 60 years, American science fiction and fantasy author Philip José Farmer published almost 60 novels, over 100 short stories and novellas, two "fictional biographies", and numerous essays, articles and ephemera in fan publications.

Novel series

World of Tiers

Original publications:
  1. The Maker of Universes
  2. The Gates of Creation
  3. A Private Cosmos
  4. Behind the Walls of Terra
  5. The Lavalite World
Red Orc's Rage series-related, but not in the main sequence.
  1. More Than Fire
Later compilations:The World of Tiers Volume One The World of Tiers Volume Two World of Tiers 1 World of Tiers 2 The World of Tiers
  • ''The World of Tiers, Volume Two''

Herald Childe

  1. Image of the Beast an erotic novel.
  2. Blown: or Sketches Among the Ruins of My Mind an erotic novel.
  4. Traitor to the Living non-erotic novel featuring Herald Childe.

Secrets of the Nine

Lord Grandrith and Doc Caliban as half-brothers involved in a world-ruling conspiracy.A Feast Unknown Lord of the Trees / The Mad Goblin Omnibus reprint of the Ace Double with The Mad Goblin retitled as Keepers of the Secrets.

[Riverworld]


;Novels
  1. To Your Scattered Bodies Go
  2. The Fabulous Riverboat
  3. The Dark Design
  4. The Magic Labyrinth
  5. Gods of Riverworld River of Eternity
;Novelette
  • "Riverworld"
  • *Slightly expanded version included in "Down in the Black Gang"
  • *Expanded version included in Riverworld and Other Stories
;Short stories
  • "Crossing the Dark River"
  • "A Hole in Hell"
  • "Up the Bright River"
  • "Coda"

Tarzan-related

Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke A fictional biography which collects—and expands upon—magazine articles by Farmer: "The Arms of Tarzan", "Tarzan's Coat of Arms", "Tarzan Lives", "The Great Korak-Time Discrepancy", "An Exclusive Interview with Lord Greystoke", "Extracts from the Memoirs of 'Lord Greystoke'" Time's Last Gift A novel in which a future Tarzan orchestrates time-travel research allowing him to travel to 12,000 BC.The Adventure of the Peerless Peer Tarzan meets Sherlock Holmes, as supposedly authored by John H. Watson.
  • * Reissued by Titan Books in 2011 as part of The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series. It has the abbreviated title of The Peerless Peer.
  • * Rewritten as "The Adventure of the Three Madmen"—with Mowgli replacing Tarzan—in The Grand Adventure collection The Dark Heart of Time: A Tarzan Novel Authorized by the ERB estate. The antagonist is an American millionaire seeking the secret of Tarzan's immortality.
  • * ''Tarzan and the Dark Heart of Time''

Khokarsa

The Khokarsa series, set circa 10,000 BC with the John Gribardsun version of Tarzan as a supporting character using the name Sahhindar.Hadon of Ancient Opar Flight to Opar The Song of Kwasin, published in Gods of Opar: Tales of Lost Khokarsa omnibus.Gods of Opar: Tales of Lost Khokarsa, omnibus of Hadon of Ancient Opar, Flight to Opar, and The Song of Kwasin .
  • "Kwasin and the Bear God"

Doc Savage

Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life, a fictional biographyEscape From Loki, a novel

Dayworld

  1. Dayworld
  2. Dayworld Rebel
  3. ''Dayworld Breakup''

Other novels

The Green Odyssey Flesh A Woman a Day The Lovers Cache from Outer Space Fire and the Night Inside Outside Tongues of the Moon Dare The Gate of Time, revised and expanded as Two Hawks from Earth Night of Light Lord Tyger Love Song The Stone God Awakens The Wind Whales of Ishmael The Other Log of Phileas Fogg Venus on the Half-Shell Ironcastle Jesus on Mars Dark Is the Sun The Unreasoning Mask Stations of the Nightmare Greatheart Silver A Barnstormer in Oz Nothing Burns in Hell Up From the Bottomless Pit, published in ten parts in Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip José Farmer
Co-authored novels:The Caterpillar's Question Naked Came The Farmer The City Beyond Play, coauthored with Danny Adams The Evil in Pemberley House, coauthored with Win Scott Eckert, featuring the daughter of "Doc Savage" Dayworld: A Hole in Wednesday, coauthored with Danny Adams, Dayworld trilogy prequel

Story collections

Strange Relations The Alley God The Celestial Blueprint: And Other Stories Down in the Black Gang The Book of Philip José Farmer, or the Wares of Simple Simon's Custard Pie and Space Man Riverworld and Other Stories Riverworld War: The Suppressed Fiction of Philip José Farmer The Cache Father to the Stars The Purple Book The Classic Philip José Farmer, 1952–1964 The Classic Philip José Farmer, 1964–1973 The Grand Adventure Riders of the Purple Wage Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe The Best of Philip José Farmer Strange Relations Pearls from Peoria Up from the Bottomless Pit and Other Stories Venus on the Half-Shell and Others includes novels Venus on the Half-Shell and The Adventure of the Peerless Peer plus other stories written as by fictional characters
;Posthumous reprints:The Other in the Mirror The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 1: Protean Dimensions Up the Bright River, ed. by Gary K. Wolfe. The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 2: Of Dust and Soul The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 3: Portraits of a Trickster
  • ''Tales of the Wold Newton Universe''

Short fiction

  • "O'Brien and Obrenov"
  • "Duo Miaule" The Lovers
  • "Sail On! Sail On!"
  • "The Biological Revolt"
  • "Mother"
  • "Moth and Rust"
  • "Attitudes"
  • "Strange Compulsion"
  • ""
  • "Daughter"
  • "Queen of the Deep"
  • "The God Business"
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  • "Totem and Taboo"
  • "Father"
  • ""
  • "The Night of Light"
  • "The Alley Man"
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  • "My Sister's Brother" or "Open to Me, My Sister"
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  • "Prometheus"
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  • "Uproar in Acheron"
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  • "Some Fabulous Yonder"
  • "The Blasphemers"
  • "The King of the Beasts"
  • "Day of the Great Shout"
  • "Riverworld"
  • "The Suicide Express"
  • "The Blind Rowers"
  • "A Bowl Bigger than Earth"
  • "The Felled Star "
  • "The Felled Star "
  • "The Shadow of Space"
  • "Riders of the Purple Wage"
  • "Don't Wash the Carats"
  • "The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod"
  • "Down in the Black Gang"
  • "The Oogenesis of Bird City"
  • "The Voice of the Sonar in my Vermiform Appendix"
  • "Brass and Gold"
  • "The Fabulous Riverboat "
  • "The Fabulous Riverboat "
  • "Only Who Can Make a Tree?"
  • "The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World"
  • "Seventy Years of Decpop"
  • "Skinburn"
  • "The Sumerian Oath"
  • "Father's in the Basement"
  • "Toward the Beloved City"
  • "Mother Earth Wants You"
  • "Sketches Among the Ruins of My Mind"
  • "Monolog"
  • "After King Kong Fell"
  • "Opening the Door"
  • "The Two-Edged Gift"
  • "The Startouched"
  • "The Evolution of Paul Eyre"
  • "Passing On"
  • "A Scarletin Study, as Jonathan Swift Somers III"
  • "The Problem of the Sore Bridge - Among Others, as Harry Manders"
  • "Greatheart Silver"
  • "The Return of Greatheart Silver"
  • "Osiris on Crutches, as Leo Queequeg Tincrowder"
  • "The Volcano, as Paul Chapin"
  • "The Doge Whose Barque Was Worse Than His Bight, as Jonathan Swift Somers III"
  • "Fundamental Issue"
  • "The Henry Miller Dawn Patrol"
  • "Greatheart Silver in the First Command"
  • "Savage Shadow as Maxwell Grant"
  • "The Impotency of Bad Karma as Cordwainer Bird"
  • "It's the Queen of Darkness, Pal, as Rod Keen"
  • "Freshman"
  • "The Leaser of Two Evils"
  • "J.C. on the Dude Ranch"
  • "Spiders of the Purple Mage"
  • "The Making of Revelation, Part I"
  • "The Long Wet Dream of Rip Van Winkle"
  • "The Adventure of the Three Madmen"
  • "UFO vs IRS"
  • "St. Francis Kisses His Ass Goodbye"
  • "One Down, One to Go"
  • "Evil, Be My Good"
  • "Nobody's Perfect"
  • "Wolf, Iron and Moth"
  • "Crossing the Dark River"
  • "A Hole in Hell"
  • "Up the Bright River"
  • "Coda"
  • "The Good of the Land"
  • "The Face that Launched a Thousand Eggs"
  • "The Unnaturals"
  • "Who Stole Stonehenge?"
  • "That Great Spanish Author, Ernesto"
  • "The Essence of the Poison"
  • "The Doll Game"
  • "Keep Your Mouth Shut"
  • "The Frames"
  • "A Spy in the U.S. of Gonococcia"
  • "A Peoria Night"
  • "The First Robot"
  • "Getting Ready to Write"
  • "My Summer Husband"
  • "What I Thought I Heard"
  • "Kwasin and the Bear God"

Anthologies edited by Farmer

Mother Was A Lovely Beast: A Feral Man Anthology, Fiction And Fact About Humans Raised By Animals Tales of Riverworld Quest to Riverworld with uncredited co-editors Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg, and Edward E. Kramer

Ephemera

  • "Bradley Brave Sees New York With Observing Injun Eyes—And with Knocking Knees"
  • "Lovers and Otherwise"
  • "The Tin Woodman Slams the Door"
  • "White Whales Raintrees Flying Saucers"
  • "The Golden Age and the Brass"
  • "On a Mountain Upside Down"
  • "Blueprint for Free Beer"
  • "Reap"
  • "Oft Have I Travelled"
  • "Report" - republished as "The Josés from Rio"
  • "The Affair of the Logical Lunatics"
  • "The Two Lord Ruftons"
  • "The Obscure Life and Hard Times of Kilgore Trout"
  • "A Reply to "The Red Herring""
  • "The Lord Mountford Mystery"
  • "Writing the Biography of Doc Savage" - republished as "Writing Doc's Biography"
  • "From Erb to Ygg"
  • "To the Wizard of Sci-Fi"
  • "The Feral Human in Mythology and Fiction"
  • "Charles L. Tanner"
  • "A Language for Opar"
  • "Some Comments" - republished as "The Source of the River"
  • "How Dinosaurs Did It"
  • "Phonemics"
  • "Philip Jose Farmer Sez ..." - republished as "A Fimbulwinter Introduction"
  • "Religion and Myths"
  • "Jonathan Swift Somers III: Cosmic Traveller in a Wheelchair"
  • "The Remarkable Adventure" with Beverly Friend
  • "Creating Artificial Worlds"
  • "Riverworld War"
  • "Maps and Spasms"
  • "The Monster on Hold"
  • "L. Frank Baum"
  • "Edgar Rice Burroughs"
  • "Memoir" - republished as "IF R.I.P"
  • "Remembering VERN"
  • "The Journey"
  • "Hayy ibn Yaqzam: An Arabic Mowgli"
  • "Robert Bloch: An Appreciation"
  • "Dede Weil: An Appreciation"
  • "I Still Live!"
  • "Why Do I Write?"
  • "The Trout Letters"
  • "The Light-Hog Incident"
  • "The Rebels Unthawed"
  • "A Modest Proposal"
  • "Sherlock Holmes & Sufism—& Related Subjects"
  • "Jongor in the Wold Newton Family"
  • "Three Metafictional Proposals"
  • "Uncle Sam's Mad Tea Party"
  • "Down to Earth's Centre"
  • "The Weird Wild Climb"
  • "Buddha Contemplates His Novel"
  • "Resumé of Riverworld Dawn"
  • "Miadzian Journal"
  • "Time Has Its Mirages"
  • "Newly Born, Newly Dead"
  • "The Legend of Mishiwapo"
  • "A Writer's Prayer"
  • "Strangers & Brothers: Pitch to Publishers"
  • "Strangers & Brothers: Francis Uquart"
  • "A Slender Tribute to a Big Man"
  • "Faith in 2097"
  • "Mark Twain and Kurt Vonnegut versus Free Will"