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It is with a great sense of sadness and emptiness that I write this message as I've just learned the news of Philip José Farmer's passing.
Certainly, Black Coat Press would never have seen the light of the day if it hadn't been for the literary "mouvement" that Mr. Farmer created when he began his prodigious multi-pronged revisionist/ metafictional look at popular literature -- from RIDERS OF THE PURPLE WAGE to his OPAR books, the Grandrith/Caliban erotica to TARZAN ALIVE, LORD TYGER through PEERLESS PEER, etc, etc, His rewriting of IRONCASTLE was my sole excuse for our rewriting of DOCTOR OMEGA; his "biographies" led to the SHADOWMEN then the TOTS anthologies...
Mr. Farmer's "movement" extended beyond the simple confines of the Wold Newton concept -- like the Surrealists who praised Fantômas and Dr Cornelius, he was our Apollinaire and Jarry rolled into one.
This month our two releases would have pleased Mr. Farmer, I think.
One if a very straighforward collection of three excellent Sherlock Holmes novellas written by Steve Leadley, in which the Great English Detective travels to Cape May, the Scottish Highlands and intersects with famous events and historical figures.
The cover is by Daylon.
The other is a "sequel" by Brian Stableford to his earlier anthology of proto-SF stories NEWS FROM THE MOON. This one, entitled THE GERMANS ON VENUS, would have appealed to the "world builder" in him, for several stories including Nodier's Perfectibility and the title piece pait in broad strokes "past future worlds" of remarkable vision and coherence.
The cover is by Gil Formosa. |
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