RIP Philip Jose Farmer

[Klaus]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/books/02/25/obit.farmer/index.html



Well, he'll be waking up as Peter Jairus Frigate when next he knows...

 

[Starbreaker]

I'll read a little Farmer tonight before going to bed. Always sad to see a prolific SF writer go.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Rest in peace Mr. Farmer.

 

[stonester1]

RIP.

Still need to read Riverworld. Saw the back channel TV pilot/movie on Skiffy. Wasn't bad, but I'll bet the books are better.

 

[Klaus]

^^by about thirty-seven million percent lol... The first book is a classic, and I liked the series a lot overall. It does suffer from the common sf syndrome of the answers not being as much fun as the questions were [among his peers, the Heechee saga by Pohl comes to mind a another example of this]... I also like the Dayworld series too, a great concept...

 

[Misfit Toy]

RIP to a good, sometimes great, sometimes , author.

 

[Ward Fowler]

That's a damn shame. The Riverworld series was fantastic. At least he went peacefully.

 

[Mistral]

RIP.

Still need to read Riverworld. Saw the back channel TV pilot/movie on Skiffy. Wasn't bad, but I'll bet the books are better.

Don't read the books. If you do you will end up in prison because after reading them you're gonna want to KILL the jerks at Skiffy for botching it so badly...

PJF-you brought me hours and hours of wonder and I got to meet some famous and not so famous people along the way. Riverworld is probably the only series that made me sit next to the encyclopedias while I read so I could look the characters up. I hope you wake up on a friendly section of River-bank next Alice Liddell-you earned it.

RIP.

 

[Klaus]

RIP.
Still need to read Riverworld. Saw the back channel TV pilot/movie on Skiffy. Wasn't bad, but I'll bet the books are better.

Don't read the books. If you do you will end up in prison because after reading them you're gonna want to KILL the jerks at Skiffy for botching it so badly...

QFT

I also loved him writing as Vonnegut's Kilgore Trout in Venus on the Half-Shell... though I didn't learn it was him 'til years later.

 

[Neopeius]

RIP to a good, sometimes great, sometimes , author.

Truer words were never spuck.

 

[Ptrope]

See you along the banks of the River, Philip.

 

[RevDMV]

Just saw this thread and checked the online articles.

The Riverworld series is classic, and I agree, the answers were not nearly as fun as the journey.

I find the World of Tiers to be an even more fun ride.

Went to a book signing at the old Change of Hobbit in LA way back when, he took the time to start drawing on the wooden lap board he was using in response to a question I had about the four wheel paddle boat design of the second riverboat. The only author I ever felt was spending time to talk to everyone.

Long life well lived...thanks for words you left.

 

[AJBryant]

Rest in peace, PHF. Thanks for creating the concept of a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen BEFORE the comics did, and making the idea cool. Thanks for Riverworld. And everything else.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I was a big fan as a teenager, Riverworld, World of Tiers and countless others, His Tarzan Alive got me into reading pulp heroes like the Shadow and Doc Savage. In my thirteen year old brain is seemed very possible that Lord Greystoke real. Years later PJF signed a oversized foam core mounted cover of a Tarzan Alive reissue for me at a bookstore appearence.

Thank you Mister Farmer. RIP

 

[Misfit Toy]

RIP to a good, sometimes great, sometimes , author.

Truer words were never spuck.

I like most of his work quite a lot, but A Feast Unknown was *really* out there.

 

[RevDMV]

RIP to a good, sometimes great, sometimes , author.

Truer words were never spuck.

I like most of his work quite a lot, but A Feast Unknown was *really* out there.

For such an unassuming fellow he was thinking some odd thoughts.

 

[Klaus]

The NY Times obit is up...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/books/27farmer.html

 

[RJDiogenes]

Aw. This is sad. Farmer was a fantastic writer. I loved Venus On The Half Shell and "The Adventure Of The Peerless Peer." His passion for the pulps was one of his quirks that really appealed to me. I think his Greatheart Silver stories were my favorites of what I've read; there's probably not many people that remember those.

RIP, Mr Farmer. And thank you.

 

[Davros]

RIP Mr Farmer.

 

[THE CHEBB]

Wow. Gone. RIP Mr. Farmer.