Pseudonyms: Cordwainer Bird, Paul Chapin, Maxwell Grant, Dane Helstrom, Rod Keen, Harry 'Bunny' Manders,
Jonathan Swift Somers III, Leo Queequeg Tincrowdor, Kilgore Trout, John H.Watson, M.D.
Born: January 26, 1918 Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
First Published Short Story: In the March 1946 issue of Adventure magazine, "O'Brien and Obrenov"
First Published Novel: In 1957 by Ballantine Books, The Green Odyssey
Author's Homepage: www.pjfarmer.com
Dayworld
1971"The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World" from the anthology New Dimensions 1 edited by Robert Silverberg
1985Dayworld
1987Dayworld Rebel
1990Dayworld Breakup

Empire of the Nine
1969A Feast Unknown
1970Lord of the Trees
1970The Mad Goblin aka Keepers of the Secrets
1988 The Empire of the Nine (omnibus of 2 above)

Father John Carmody
1966Night of Light expanded from "The Night of Light" 1957
1981Father to the Stars (5 stories)
"The Night of Light" 1957 "A Few Miles" 1960 "Prometheus" 1961 "Father" 1955 "Attitudes" 1953
1953"Strange Compulsion" aka "The Captain's Daughter" from the magazine Science Fiction Plus
1963"Some Fabulous Yonder" from the magazine Fantastic, Stories of Imagination Rewritten without Farmer's permission

Harold Childe
1968Image of the Beast
1969Blown
1973Traitor to the Living

Opar
1974Hadon of Ancient Opar
1976Flight to Opar

Philip José Farmer's: The Dungeon created by Farmer but written by others
1988Volume 1: The Black Tower by Richard A. Lupoff
1989Volume 2: The Dark Abyss by Bruce Coville
1989Volume 3: The Valley of Thunder by Charles de Lint
1989Volume 4: The Lake of Fire by Robin W.Bailey
1990Volume 5: The Hidden City by Charles de Lint
1990Volume 6: The Final Battle by Richard A. Lupoff

Riverworld
1971To Your Scattered Bodies Go expanded from "Day of the Great Shout" 1965 & "The Suicide Express" 1966
1971The Fabulous Riverboat expanded from "The Felled Star" 1967 & "The Fabulous Riverboat" 1971
1977The Dark Design
1979"Riverworld" from the anthology Riverworld and Other Stories (revised from 1966 & 1971)
1980The Magic Labyrinth
1980"Riverworld War" with an abridged version of Jesus on Mars 1979
1983Gods of Riverworld
1983River of Eternity revised version of the never published original Riverworld novel, Owe For the Flesh
1992Tales of Riverworld edited by Philip José Farmer (9 stories)
Forward by Philip José Farmer "Crossing the Dark River" (Part 1 of 2) by Philip José Farmer
"A Hole in Hell" by Dane Helstrom aka Philip José Farmer "Graceland" by Allen Steele
"Every Man a God" by Mike Resnick & Barry N. Malzberg "Blandings on Riverworld" by Phillip C. Jennings
"Two Thieves" by Harry Turtledove "Fool's Paradise" by Ed Gorman
"The Merry Men of Riverworld" by John Gregory Betancourt "Unfinished Business" by Robert Weinberg
1992Quest to Riverworld edited by Philip José Farmer (14 stories)
"Up the Bright River" by Philip José Farmer "If the King Like Not the Comedy" by Jody Lynn Nye
"Because It's There" by Jerry Oltion "A Place of Miracles" by Owl Goingback
"Diaghilev Plays Riverworld" by Robert Sheckley "Secret Crimes" by Robert Sampson
"Hero's Coin" by Brad Strickland "Human Spirit, Beetle Spirit" by John Gregory Betancourt
"Nevermore" by David Bischoff & Dean Wesley Smith "Old Soldiers" by Lawrence Watt-Evans
"Legends" by Esther M. Friesner "Stephen Comes Into Courage" by Rick Wilber
"Riverworld Roulette" by Robert Weinberg "Coda" by Philip José Farmer

World of Tiers
1965The Maker of Universes
1966The Gates of Creation
1981 The World of Tiers Volume One (omnibus of 2 above)
1968A Private Cosmos
1986 World of Tiers 1 (omnibus of 3 above)
1997 The World of Tiers Volume 1 (omnibus of 3 above)
1970Behind the Walls of Terra
1977The Lavalite World
1981 The World of Tiers Volume Two (omnibus of 3 above)
1986 World of Tiers 2 (omnibus of 2 above)
1991Red Orc's Rage
1993More Than Fire
1997 The World of Tiers Volume 2 (Behind the Walls of Terra, The Lavalite World & More Than Fire)

Anthologies
1960Strange Relations (5 stories)
"Mother" 1953 "Daughter" 1954 "Father" 1955 "Son" retitled from "Queen of the Deep" 1954
"My Sister's Brother" retitled from "Open to Me, My Sister" 1959
1962The Alley God (3 stories)
"The Alley Man" 1959 "The Captain's Daughter" retitled from "Strange Compulsion" 1953
"The God Business" 1954
1962The Celestial Blueprint (4 stories)
"Rastignac the Devil" 1954 "The Celestial Blueprint" 1954 "They Twinkled Like Jewels" 1954
"Totem and Taboo" 1954
1971Down in the Black Gang (8 stories)
"Down in the Black Gang" 1971 revised from 1969 "The Shadow of Space" 1967
"A Bowl Bigger than Earth" 1967 "Riverworld" 1971 revised from 1966 "A Few Miles" 1960
"Prometheus" 1961 "The Blasphemers" 1964 "How Deep the Grooves" 1963
1973The Book of Philip José Farmer (16 stories)
"My Sister's Brother" retitled from "Open to Me, My Sister" 1959 "Skinburn" 1972 "Polytropical Paramyths" 1973
"The Alley Man" 1959 "Father's in the Basement" 1972 "Towards the Beloved City" 1972
"Don't Wash the Carats" 1968 "The Sumerian Oath" 1972 "Only Who Can Make a Tree?" 1971
"An Exclusive Interview With Lord Greystoke" retitled from "Tarzan Lives" 1972
"Sexual Implications of the Charge of the Light Brigade" excerpt from "Riders of the Purple Wage" 1967
"The Obscure Life and Hard Times of Kilgore Trout" 1971 "Thanks for the Feast" essay by Leslie A. Fiedler 1972
"Totem and Taboo" 1954 "The Voice of the Sonar in my Vermiform Appendix" 1971 "Brass and Gold" 1971
The 1982 and after editions replaced the last 3 above with the 3 below
"The Last Rise of Nick Adams" retitled from "The Impotency of Bad Karma" 1977 "The Freshman" 1979
"Uproar in Acheron" 1962
1979Riverworld and Other Stories (11 stories)
"Riverworld" 1979 revised from 1971 "J.C. on the Dude Ranch" 1979 "The Volcano" 1976
"The Henry Miller Dawn Patrol" 1977 "The Problem of the Sore Bridge--Among Others" 1975
"Brass and Gold" 1971 "The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod" 1968
"The Voice of the Sonar in My Vermiform Appendix" 1971 "Monolog" 1973
"The Leaser of Two Evils" 1979 "The Phantom of the Sewers" retitled from "It's the Queen of Darkness, Pal" 1978
1981The Cache (3 stories)
"The Long Warpath" 1981 revised and retitled from The Cache From Outer Space 1965
"Rastignac the Devil" 1965 "They Twinkled Like Jewels" 1965
1982Greatheart Silver (3 stories)
"Greatheart Silver in Showdown at Shootout, or The Grand Finale" 1975
"The Return of Greatheart Silver or The Secret Life of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" 1975
"Greatheart Silver in the First Command, or Inglories Galore" 1977
1982The Purple Book (5 stories)
"The Oögenesis of Bird City" 1970 "Riders of the Purple Wage" 1967
"Spiders of the Purple Mage" 1980 "The Making of Revelation, Part I" 1980
"The Long Wet Purple Dream of Rip van Winkle" retitled from "The Long Wet Dream of Rip van Winkle" 1981
1982Stations of the Nightmare (5 stories)
"The Two-Edged Gift" (Part 1) 1974 "The Startouched" (Part 2) 1975 "The Evolution of Paul Eyre" (Part 3) 1975
"Passing On" (Part 4) 1975 "Osiris On Crutches" 1976
1984The Grand Adventure (7 stories)
"The Shadow of Space" 1967 "A Bowl Bigger Than Earth" 1967
"Sketches Among the Ruins of My Mind" 1973 "The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World" 1971
"After King Kong Fell" 1973 "Totem and Taboo" 1954
"The Adventure of the Three Madmen" 1984 revised and retitled from The Adventure of the Peerless Peer 1974
1984The Classic Philip José Farmer, 1952-1964 edited by Martin H. Greenberg (6 stories)
"Retrieving the Lost" Forward by Isaac Asimov Introduction by Martin H. Greenberg
"Sail On! Sail On!" 1952 "Mother" 1953 "The God Business" 1954 "The Alley Man" 1959
"My Sister's Brother" retitled from "Open to Me, My Sister" 1960 "The King of the Beasts" 1964
1984The Classic Philip José Farmer, 1964-1973 edited by Martin H. Greenberg (8 stories)
"Retrieving the Lost" Forward by Isaac Asimov Introduction by Martin H. Greenberg
"The Shadow of Space" 1967 "Riders of the Purple Wage" 1967 "Don't Wash the Carats" 1968
"The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod" 1968 "The Oögenesis of Bird City" 1970
"The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World" 1971 "Sketches Among the Ruins of My Mind" 1973
"After King Kong Fell" 1973
1992Riders of the Purple Wage (8 stories)
"One Down, One to Go" 1990 "UFO Versus IRS" retitled from "Uranus or UFO Versus IRS" 1985
"The Making of Revelation, Part 1" 1980 "The Long Wet Purple Dream of Rip van Winkle" 1981
"Osiris on Crutches" 1976 "St. Francis Kisses His Ass Goodbye" 1989
"The Oögenesis of Bird City" 1970 "Riders of the Purple Wage" 1967
1974Mother Was A Lovely Beast edited by Philip José Farmer (9 stories)
"The God of Tarzan" by Edgar Rice Burroughs "Extracts from the Memoirs of 'Lord Greystoke' " by Philip José Farmer
"Tarzan of the Grapes" by Gene Wolfe "Relic" by Mack Reynolds
"One Against a Wilderness" by William L..Chester "Shasta of the Wolves" by Olaf Baker
"Scream of the Condor" by George Bruce "The Man Who Really Was...Tarzan" by Thomas Llewellan Jones
"The Feral Human in Mythology and Fiction" essay by Philip José Farmer

Other Works
1957The Green Odyssey
1960Flesh (erotic sci-fi)
1961The Lovers expanded from "The Lovers" 1952
1962Fire and the Night (general fiction)
1964Inside - Outside
1964Tongues of the Moon expanded from "Tongues of the Moon" 1961
1965Dare
1968A Woman a Day aka The Day of Timestop aka Timestop! expanded from "Moth and Rust" 1953
1970Lord Tyger
1970Love Song (erotic gothic)
1970The Stone God Awakens
1971The Wind Whales of Ishmael
1972Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke (fictional biography)
1972Time's Last Gift revised 1977
1973Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life (fictional biography)
1973The Other Log of Phileas Fogg
1974Venus on the Half Shell as by Kilgore Trout
1976Ironcastle translated from the French L'étonnante Aventure de Hareton Ironcastle 1922 by J.H. Rosny
1979Jesus on Mars
1979Two Hawks From Earth expanded from The Gate of Time 1966
1981The Unreasoning Mask
1982A Barnstormer in Oz
1986Dark Is the Sun
1991Escape from Loki (Doc Savage story)
1992The Caterpillar's Question with Piers Anthony
1998Naked Came the Farmer Associational novel by 13 authors
Chapter 1 "Naked Came the Farmer" by Philip José Farmer
Chapter 2 "Seeing Red" by Bill Knight
Chapter 3 "Mad Mux" by David Everson
Chapter 4 "Lagoon Interlude" by Jerry Klein
Chapter 5 "The Bridges of McLean County" by Julie Kistler
Chapter 6 "Friends in Low Places" by Nancy Atherton
Chapter 7 "Prairie Dawgs" by Steven Burgauer
Chapter 8 "Get Your Motor Running" by Joel Steinfeldt
Chapter 9 "Morris the Explainer" by Joseph Flynn
Chapter 10 "Extra-Cellular Communications" by Terry Bibo
Chapter 11 "Off the Beaten Path" by Garry Moore
Chapter 12 "Porklips Nocturne" by Tracy Knight
Chapter 13 "Oh, Brother!" by Dorothy Cannell
1998Nothing Burns in Hell (mystery)
1999The Dark Heart of Time (Tarzan story)
 
1946"O'Brien and Obrenov" from the magazine Adventure
1953"Beauty in This Iron Age" from the fanzine Star Lanes #11 (poem)
1953"The Biological Revolt" from the magazine Science Fiction Plus Rewritten and retitled without Farmer's permission
1953"Sestina of the Space Rocket" from the magazine Startling Stories
1954"Imagination" from the magazine Thrilling Wonder Stories (poem)
1954"In Common" from the fanzine Star Lanes (poem)
1954"The Wounded" from the magazine Fantastic Universe
1960"Heel" from the magazine If
1965"The Pterodactyl" from the magazine Fantasy and Science Fiction
1967"The Blind Rowers" from the magazine Knight Vol 5 #11
1972"Seventy Years of Decpop" from the magazine Galaxy
1973"Mother Earth Wants You" from the anthology And Walk Now Gently Through the Fire... edted by Roger Elwood
1973"Opening the Door" from the anthology Children of Infinity edted by Roger Elwood
1975"A Scarletin Study" as by Jonathan Swift Somers III, from the magazine Fantasy and Science Fiction
1976"The Doge Whose Barque Was Worse Than His Bight" as by Jonathan Swift Somers III, from the magazine Fantasy and Science Fiction
1976"Fundamental Issue" from the magazine Amazing
1977"Savage Shadow" as by Maxwell Grant, from the anthology Weird Heroes Vol. 8 edited by Byron Preiss
1990"Evil, Be My Good" from the World Fantasy Convention Program Book edited by Robert Weinberg
1991"Nobody's Perfect" from the anthology The Ultimate Dracula edted by Byron Preiss, David Kellor & Megan Miller
1991"Wolf, Iron, and Moth" from the anthology The Ultimate Werewolf edted by Byron Preiss, David Kellor, Megan Miller & John Gregory

Books about Philip José Farmer
1984The Magic Labyrinth of Philip Jose Farmer by Edgar L. Chapman
1998Collecting Philip José Farmer, The Illustrated Guide, Vol. 1 by Michael Croteau







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