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Pearls from Peoria / Philip José Farmer ; edited by Paul Spiteri.
Van Pelt Library PS3556.A72 A6 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Farmer, Philip José.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Farmer, Philip José.
- American literature.
- Science fiction, American.
- Physical Description:
- 773 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Burton, MI : Subterranean Press, 2006.
- Contents:
- Nobody's perfect
- Wolf, iron, and moth
- Evil, be my good
- Mother Earth wants you
- Opening the door
- The wounded
- Heel
- A scarletin study
- The doge whose barque was worse that his bight
- Jonathan Swift Somers III: cosmic traveller in a wheelchair
- Seventy years of decpop
- Fundamental issue
- Some fabulous yonder
- Planet pickers
- The terminalization of J.G. Ballard
- The blind rowers
- Hunter's moon
- The rise gotten
- The good of the land
- O'Brien and Obrenov
- -Writing Doc's biography
- Savage shadow
- Doc Savage and the cult of the Blue God
- The monster on hold
- The princess of Terra
- The golden age and the brass
- An appreciation of Edgar Rice Burroughs
- The arms of Tarzan
- The two Lord Ruftons
- A reply to "The red herring"
- The Great Korak time discrepancy
- The Lord Mountford mystery
- From ERB to YGG
- A language for Opar
- The purple distance
- The source of the river
- A rough knight for the queen
- The journey as the revelation of the unknown
- The Josés from Rio
- Getting a-long with Heinlein
- God's hat
- To Forry Ackerman, the wizard of sci-fi
- Pornograms and supercomputers
- A review of Chrysalis
- Review of The Prometheus project
- Review of How the wizard came to Oz
- Oft have I travelled
- White whales, raintrees, flying saucers
- If R.I.P.
- The Tin woodman slams the door
- Witches and gnomes and talking animals, oh my
- Suffer a witch to live
- Imagination
- Good but not good enough
- The pterodactyl
- Sestina of the space rocket
- Beauty in this iron age
- In common
- Black squirrel on cottonwood limb's tip
- Job's Leviathan
- Maps and spasms
- Religion and myths
- Creating artificial worlds
- Phonemics
- Lovers and otherwise
- A fimbulwinter introduction
- On a mountain upside down
- Afterword
- The mother of Pearl
- The artwork and the artists
- Photo montages.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 159606059X
- OCLC:
- 71316165
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