Three Powerful Science Fiction Classics

Author : Philip José Farmer
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504046064
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Powerful Science Fiction Classics written by Philip José Farmer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a multiple Hugo winner and Science Fiction Grand Master: Three mind-bending stories featuring future worlds, space travel, and aliens. Author Philip José Farmer blasts into space, races into the future, and travels back in time in three astoundingly original and thrilling science fiction adventures. The Lovers: Linguist Hal Yarrow catches a lucky break with an assignment on planet Ozagen, allowing him to escape the theocracy on thirty-first-century Earth. But he can’t shake Pornsen, his gapt—something like a personal guardian angel—who harangues him for even the slightest wrongdoing. Yarrow submits to Pornsen’s constant chaperoning, until he meets Jeannette Rastignac. She’s not his wife, his faith says any contact with her is sin, and there are other, odder warnings about Jeannette. But Yarrow’s in love . . . Dark Is the Sun: Fifteen billion years in the future, the Earth is cooling and dying. All the planet’s life forms have wildly mutated, civilization is primitive, and the sun is cold and black. Deyv, a young member of the Turtle Tribe, is on the hunt for his stolen soul egg, which has been purloined by the thieving creature Yawtl. Without his egg, he won’t be able to mate, so Deyv and his companions set out on a quest, leading them across a continent, through many wonders and terrors, to the lair of a mysterious off-worlder who may hold the key to an escape from their rapidly perishing planet. Riders of the Purple Wage: This Hugo Award winner introduces Chib, a young artist hiding out from the IRS in the ultimate welfare state, a society where everyone receives the same wage from birth and stays connected through a personal video device called “fido.” Chib must win a grant at his next art show—or he’ll be shipped to another society as part of a government exchange program. But his tendency toward provocation and blasphemy may be his undoing. Showcasing the epic range of Farmer’s imagination, these varied tales are brilliant, provocative, and endlessly entertaining.

Author : Philip José Farmer
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504091396
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lord Tyger written by Philip José Farmer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A South African tycoon attempts to engineer his own Tarzan in a novel that deconstructs the original legend with unparalleled imagination. In a remote African valley, Ras Tyger is the Lord of the Jungle. He lives each day fulfilling his appetites for deadly prey and sexual conquest. But something sinister lurks behind his unspoiled life. He will soon discover the devastating truth: his entire existence has been engineered by a madman. Obsessed with the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, a white South African uses his fortune to turn an English nobleman into the heroically untamed figure. Everything in Ras Tyger’s world—from his jungle home to the “apes” who raised him—is an elaborate lie. But the Tarzan books weren’t very plausible. And the experiment is about to get dangerously out of control . . . Drawing on true stories of feral children, Lord Tyger explores the real-life implications of the Tarzan legend. With ingenious meta-fiction, Philip José Farmer delivers a wildly entertaining sci-fi adventure that critiques popular colonial mythmaking.

Author : Philip José Farmer
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504090144
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Other Log of Phileas Fogg written by Philip José Farmer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author boldly reimagines the Jules Verne classic Around the World in Eighty Days in this outrageous sci-fi fantasy. The famous adventurer Phileas Fogg was not at all what he seemed—and his legendary journey was far more remarkable than previous accounts let on. Fogg was actually a human foster child of an alien race known as the Eridaneans. After being marooned on Earth, they enlisted Fogg as a secret agent in their underground war against their extraterrestrial rivals. Now Fogg himself recounts what really happened behind the scenes of his trip around the world as he executes a major phase of the Eridanean war. Readers will discover the true origins of Fogg, Passepartout, Captain Nemo, and other Jules Verne characters. The Other Log of Phileas Fogg is set in Philip José Farmer’s expansive fantasy world where Sherlock Holmes, James Bond, Flash Gordon, and other larger-than-life heroes all intersect.

Author : Philip José Farmer
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 150409140X
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lord of the Trees written by Philip José Farmer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alternate-universe Tarzan seeks revenge on an all-powerful cabal in this science fiction adventure—a sequel to A Feast Unknown. He is Viscount Grandrith: member of the House of Lords, slayer of wild beasts, and righter of wrongs. Having tasted the elixir of life, he possesses near-immortal power—a power that comes with a dark affliction shared only by his half-brother, Doc Caliban. On his way to rediscover his childhood roots in Gabon, Lord Grandrith survives a thousand-foot plunge into shark-infested seas—an experience that revitalizes his taste for adventure. And that is just as well. For the Lord of the Trees has fallen into the grip of the Nine, grim and ancient rulers who control the world from afar . . . A partner novel to The Mad Goblin, Lord of the Trees continues the strange saga that began with Philip José Farmer’s controversial novel A Feast Unknown.

Author : Philip José Farmer
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504090152
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time's Last Gift written by Philip José Farmer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-first-century scientists make shocking discoveries on an expedition to the prehistoric age in the Hugo Award–winner’s “mystery within a mystery” (Wired). In 2070 AD, anthropologist John Gribardsun assembles a team of scientists to travel back in time to the prehistoric world of 12,000 BC. Their unprecedented mission—one that could never be repeated—is to learn about the primitive Magdalenian culture. They are willing to risk anything to finally uncover the origins of human civilization. But they could never have imagined what their findings reveal . . . or the effects they will have on the future. After emerging from their timeship, the other members of the crew begin to suspect something out of the ordinary about their enigmatic leader. As Gribardsun adapts to their primitive surroundings with remarkable ease, it is almost as if he belongs . . . Time’s Last Gift is set in Philip José Farmer’s expansive fantasy world that interweaves the lives of Sherlock Holmes, Jack the Ripper, James Bond, Flash Gordon, and other larger-than-life characters.

Author : Philip José Farmer
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504090802
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wind Whales of Ishmael written by Philip José Farmer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nineteenth-century sailor must navigate a future world of airships and soaring whales in the Hugo Award–winning author’s sci-fi sequel to Moby-Dick. When the whaling ship Pequod is destroyed, Ishmael is the lone survivor to escape a watery grave. But shortly after his rescue, he finds himself slipping through a rift in time and space—into a future Earth. In this strange new world, he encounters bloodsucking vegetation and a blood-red sun. Here, too, there are whales to hunt—but whales that soar like airships through the alien sky. With no seas to sail and no safe harbor to call home, Ishmael must take to the heavens. And so he embarks on wild new adventures that include being hunted by air-sharks, wild aerial battles on floating ships, journeys through booby-trapped labyrinths, hand-to-hand combat, and much more derring-do.

Author : Philip José Farmer
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504094522
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Venus on the Half-Shell written by Philip José Farmer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disaster sends a man across the universe in search of answers to life’s big questions in this humorous classic adventure by a Science Fiction Grand Master. When a massive flood wipes out Earth and spoils his date, lone survivor Simon Wagstaff finds refuge in an abandoned Chinese spaceship, the Hwang Ho. Accompanied by three new companions—a dog, an owl, and a beautiful robot—and his electric banjo, Wagstaff sets off on an extraterrestrial adventure. He travels from planet to planet, seeking the definitive answer to the ultimate question: Why are we created if only to suffer and die? Of course, after he drinks an elixir granting him eternal life, the real question is what to do for the rest of eternity after he answers his first question . . . “Lively and inventive and goes by faster than a holiday weekend.” —The Washington Post “A comedy of sexual mores, an investigative search for Love, a lampoon of people who require answers to imponderable questions.” —Science Fiction Review “Not only a science-fiction epic of the most incredible proportions, but it is also a satiric-fantasy, a clever parody of its own genre.” —The Daily Eastern News

Author : Dan Simmons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 942 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hyperion Cantos written by Dan Simmons and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight centuries from now-- long after the Big Mistake and the death of Old Earth-- humanity is again on the brink of war. Galactic war this time.

Author : J. H. Rosny
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819572306
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Science Fiction Novellas written by J. H. Rosny and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Probably the greatest of all French-speaking science-fiction writers [after Jules Verne] . . . I was unprepared for the power and beauty.” —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post To the short list that includes Jules Verne and H.G. Wells as founding fathers of science fiction, the name of the Belgian writer J.-H. Rosny Aîné must be added. He was the first writer to conceive, and attempt to narrate, the workings of aliens and alternate life forms. His fascination with evolutionary scenarios, and long historical vistas, from first man to last man, are important precursors to the myriad cosmic epics of modern science fiction. Until now, his work has been virtually unknown and unavailable in the English-speaking world, but it is crucial for our understanding of the genre. Three wonderfully imaginative novellas are included in this volume. “The Xipehuz” is a prehistoric tale in which the human species battles strange geometric alien life forms. “Another World” is the story of a mysterious being who does not live in the same acoustic and temporal world as humans. “The Death of the Earth” is a scientifically uncompromising Last Man story. The book also includes an insightful critical introduction that places Rosny’s work within the context of evolutionary biology. “Rosny was a species pluralist, and believed that human beings are no more entitled than any other creature to reign supreme. He would have felt right at home among the Men In Black.” —Laura Miller, The New Yorker

Author : Philip José Farmer
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504067118
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Hawks from Earth written by Philip José Farmer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times–bestselling author of the Riverworld series: An alternate history classic in which the American continents never existed. Two Hawks from Earth, an expanded and revised version of Philip José Farmer’s The Gate of Time, is the story of an Iroquois pilot in World War II. First Lt. Roger Two Hawks is on a bombing run over Romania when his aircraft is shot down and collides with a German plane midair. Two Hawks bails out and survives, but when he reaches the ground, gone are the suburbs he saw from the sky. Instead, there are dirt roads, trees, farms, and an unsettling quiet. Then Two Hawks sees the soldiers: fur-clad men with shiny steel helmets shaped like wolf heads and armed with swords and arrows. Soon he comes to understand that, though a world war still rages, the Americans are absent—because they don’t exist, and neither does the land they’d come from. With his modern-day military and technical knowledge, Two Hawks becomes a prize that both armies covet. But he’ll have to learn to play by the rules of a new realm in order to survive—and live to see another world . . . Praise for Philip José Farmer “An excellent science fiction writer.” —Isaac Asimov “[Farmer’s work is a] blend of intellectual daring and pulp fiction prose.” —The New York Times “Farmer offers his audience a wide-screen adventure that never fails to provoke, amuse, and educate. . . . His imagination is certainly of the first rank.” —Time on The World of Tiers