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Bezig met laden... The Classic Philip Jose Farmer, 1952-1964 (1984)door Philip José Farmer
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Definitely interesting short stories, still original, and some quite disturbing, ranging from space travel over creation of a new faith to thoughts about extinction. ( ) Blech. I cannot see what fans do. A story has to be more than imaginative to be good - it has to offer ideas interesting & worth thinking about. And short stories need to get to the point. These silly sexist ramblings don't work for me at all, and, tbh, I'm not sure I want to befriend the person for whom they do. Very often in writing classes, students are challenged to create “elevator pitches”, challenging them to summarize the premise of a story in one or two sentences. When it comes to Philip Jose Farmer, good luck with that. It was a struggle even for me and I consider myself well practiced at it. The Classic Philip José Farmer, 1952-1964 is my first exposure to Farmer’s work and if nothing else, it has instilled a respect for his unorthodox approach to storytelling. There is little one could call conventional about Farmer’s style and imagination. His worlds are replete with bizarre aliens and even more peculiar humans. In the first of two anthologies published by Crown Classics, we are presented with three short stories and three novellas, albeit the final story could easily be classified as flash fiction. In “Sail On! Sail On!”, we are given a glimpse into an alternate history of Columbus’s expedition across the Atlantic wherein a bibulous monk uses a mysterious device that sends ship to shore communications through the intervention of angels. When his messages are disrupted by signals from the moon, might it spell danger for their voyage? An apathetic, fragile young man and his doting mother are the only survivors of a crashed ship. While exploring their alien surroundings, the boy is taken captive by an alien who becomes his surrogate “Mother" and protector. In “The God Business”, a former college professor invents a libation called the Brew that liberates people from all inhibitions, elevating himself to godhood in the process. When two investigators are sent in to gather intelligence where military incursions previously failed, they find a strange destiny awaits. “The Alley Man” claims to be last of the Neanderthals. Living in a trailer beside a garbage dump, he accepts payment from a local research scientist to allow her to study him in his daily routine—until a strange attraction overcomes her. “My Sister’s Brother” tests the prejudices of the sole survivor of a Mars expedition when he stumbles across an attractive alien with a surprising sexuality. A biologist provides a guided tour of a zoo that recreates specimens from various extinct species, including one that is considered “The King of Beasts”. In “Mother” and “My Sister’s Brother” particularly, I found Farmer’s detailed descriptions of the aliens and their respective biologies remarkable. “The God Business” was my favorite of the collection. I look forward to volume two and then moving onto Farmer's acclaimed Riverworld series. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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This collection of short fiction spans the first twelve years of Farmer's published writing. Here you will encounter such gems as "Mother", the story of a homesick young man who adopts a bizarre alien as his parent and protector; "The Alley Man", about the last living Neanderthal and a twentieth-century woman's strange attraction to him; and the disturbing "My Sister's Brother", in which the humanlike beauty of an alien creature tests an Earthman's deepest prejudices when he discovers the true nature of her sexuality. All these stories reveal a sensitivity in dealing with provocative themes that marks their author as an outstanding innovator and a serious writer of science fiction at its best and most thoughtful. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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