Philip José Farmer (born January 26 is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 339 days remaining (340 in leap years). Events 1340 - King Edward III of England is declared King of France. 1500 - Vicente Yáñez Pinzón become the first European to discover Brazil. 1531 - Lisbon, Portugal... January 26, 1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). Events January-February January 8 - President Woodrow Wilson announces his Fourteen Points for the aftermath of World War I. January 24 - a decree of the Council of Peoples Commissars, introducing the Gregorian calendar in Russia since February... 1918) is an The United States of America — also referred to as the United States, the U.S.A., the U.S., America¹, the States, or (archaically) Columbia — is a federal republic of 50 states located primarily in central North America (with the exception of two states: Alaska and Hawaii... American The word author has several meanings: The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). This can be short or long, fiction or nonfiction, poetry or prose, technical or literature; in particular it is a profession (doing this... author, principally known for his Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. There are exceptions (or, at least, some unusual examples) to this general definition. Scope In defining the scope of the science fiction genre, we... science fiction and For other definitions of fantasy see fantasy (psychology). In literature, fantasy is a form of fiction, usually novels or short stories, though fantasy role-playing games comic books and movies are also popular. In its broadest sense, fantasy fiction covers an immense number of works by many authors, from ancient... fantasy A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. The English word novel derives from the Italian word novella, meaning a tale, a piece of news. The novel is longer (40,000 words and onwards) and... novels and This article is in need of attention. Please improve it in any way you see fit. The short story is a form of narrative prose writing that is characterised by the number of words contained therein. Determining the actual length of a short story is problematic. A classic definition of... short stories.

Many of Farmer's works involve reworking existing characters from fiction and history, such as The Other Log of Phileas Fogg, filling in the missing time periods from Jules Verne. Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910). Jules Verne (February 8, 1828—March 24, 1905) was a French author and a pioneer of the science fiction genre. Verne was noted for writing about space, air, and underwater travel long before they were possible. Early years Verne was... Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours) is a classic adventure novel by Jules Verne, first published in 1872. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French butler Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the late Victorian world in 80... Around the World in Eighty Days. His favorite subjects for this type of work are the Pulp magazines, often called simply the pulps, were inexpensive text fiction magazines widely published in the 1920s through the 1950s. The first pulp is considered to be Frank Munseys revamped Argosy Magazine of 1896. Most of the few pulps still thriving today are science fiction (SF) or mystery magazines... pulp heroes Tarzan, a character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, first appeared in the 1914 novel Tarzan of the Apes, and then in twenty-three sequels. The Tarzan story Tarzan is the orphaned son of aristocratic English parents marooned in Africa in the late 19th century. Upon their deaths, he is adopted... Tarzan and Doc Savage is a fictional character, one of the most enduring pulp heroes of the 1930s and 1940s. The character was created by Street and Smith Publications executive Henry Ralston and editor John Nanovic, but fully realized by Lester Dent, who wrote most of the 190 short novels in the... Doc Savage.

This has led to a burgeoning of a particular type of this form of fiction which is frequently referred to by reference to Farmer's original premise, the The Wold Newton family is a literary conceit derived from a form of crossover fiction developed by the science fiction writer Philip José Farmer. Farmer suggested in two fictional biographies of fictional characters (Tarzan Alive and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life), that a radioactive meteorite fell in Wold Newton, England... Wold Newton family.

His Riverworld is the setting for a series of science fiction books written by Philip José Farmer. The five books in the series are as follows : To Your Scattered Bodies Go The Fabulous Riverboat The Dark Design The Magic Labyrinth The Gods of Riverworld The Riverworld is a planet, where... Riverworld series follows the adventures of such diverse characters as Richard Burton, portrait by Frederic Leighton, National Portrait Gallery, London Sir Richard Francis Burton (March 19, 1821 - October 19, 1890), British consul, explorer, translator, and Orientalist, was born at Barham House, Hertfordshire, England. He travelled alone and in disguise to Mecca, translated The Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra, journeyed... Richard Burton, Hermann Göring Hermann Wilhelm Göring (also spelled Hermann Goering in English) ( January 12, 1893 – October 15, 1946) was a prominent and early member of the Nazi party, founder of the Gestapo, and one of the main architects of Nazi Germany. He is often quoted from... Hermann Göring, and Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was a famous and popular American humorist, writer and lecturer. At his peak, he was probably the most popular American celebrity of his time. William Faulkner wrote he was the first truly American... Samuel Clemens through a bizarre afterlife in which every human ever to have lived is simultaneously resurrected along a single river valley that stretches over an entire planet.

Farmer wrote Venus on the Half-Shell under the name Kilgore Trout is a fictional character created by author Kurt Vonnegut. Said to be a fictionalization of the real author Theodore Sturgeon, Trout appears in several of Vonneguts books, in which he performs a variety of roles: he acts as a catalyst for the main characters in God Bless... Kilgore Trout, a fictitious author who appears in the works of Kurt Vonnegut, Junior (born November 11, 1922) is an American novelist, satirist, and most recently, graphic artist. He was recognized as New York State Author for 2001-2003. He was born in Indianapolis, later the setting for many of his novels. He attended Cornell University from 1941 to 1943, where... Kurt Vonnegut.

Farmer's works often contain sexual themes: his collection of short stories Strange Relations was a notable event in the history of Modern science fiction frequently involves themes of sex, gender and sexuality. This was not always so. During the 1930s and 40s golden age of science fiction sex was rarely if ever even mentioned, although there was certainly no lack of innuendo and suggestion. The idea, however, that strong female characters... sex in science fiction.

His A parallel universe, also sometimes called an alternate universe, is a hypothetical universe which exists separately from our own. Some theories of physics postulate the existence of many parallel universes, possibly even an infinite number. Depending on the details of the theory, these universes may or may not interact with... parallel universe series World of Tiers is a series of connected science fiction/fantasy novels by Philip José Farmer. The central idea of these novels is a set of customized universes, created and ruled by decadent near-immortals. The novels are: The Maker of Universes (1965) The Gates of Creation (1966) A Private... World of Tiers inspired Roger Joseph Zelazny (May 13, 1937 - June 14, 1995) was a United States writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels. He won the Nebula award three times and the Hugo award six times, including twice for novels: Lord of Light (1968) and ...And Call Me Conrad (1966... Roger Zelazny's The fictional realm of Amber is the setting for the Amber fantasy novels by Roger Zelazny (and for the Amber diceless role_playing game they inspired). In the Amber stories, Amber and the Courts of Chaos are the only two true worlds; all others, including our Earth, are but shadows of... Amber series.

His work sometimes contains religious themes and has included This article is about the figure known by both Jesus of Nazareth and Jesus Christ. For other usages, see Jesus (disambiguation). This 11th-century portrait is one of many images of Jesus in which a halo with a cross is used. Jesus of Nazareth (b. about 6–4 BC... Jesus as a character in both the Riverworld is the setting for a series of science fiction books written by Philip José Farmer. The five books in the series are as follows : To Your Scattered Bodies Go The Fabulous Riverboat The Dark Design The Magic Labyrinth The Gods of Riverworld The Riverworld is a planet, where... Riverworld series and Jesus on Mars is a 1979 science fiction novel by Philip José Farmer set on Mars and involving an alien civilization. Despite the apparently lurid, sensationalist theme evoked by the title, this novel makes social commentary on a just society and on religious belief. It was first published as a... Jesus on Mars. (To be specific, Jesus shows up in the Riverworld setting during a short story in Riverworld and Other Stories and is not a character in the primary books of the Riverworld series.)

External links

• The Official Philip José Farmer Home Page (http://www.pjfarmer.com/)
• Philip José Farmer - International Bibliography (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rnuninga/)
• An Expansion of Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe (http://www.pjfarmer.com/woldnewton/Pulp2.htm)