| 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 | |
| 1985 | Dayworld | |
| 1987 | Dayworld Rebel | |
| 1990 | Dayworld Breakup | |
| Empire of the Nine | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1969 | A Feast Unknown | |
| 1970 | Lord of the Trees | |
| 1970 | The Mad Goblin aka Keepers of the Secrets | |
| 1988 The Empire of the Nine (omnibus of 2 above) | ||
| Father John Carmody | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Night of Light expanded from "The Night of Light" 1957 | |
| 1981 | Father 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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Image of the Beast | |
| 1969 | Blown | |
| 1973 | Traitor to the Living | |
| Opar | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Hadon of Ancient Opar | |
| 1976 | Flight to Opar | |
| Philip José Farmer's: The Dungeon created by Farmer but written by others | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Volume 1: The Black Tower by Richard A. Lupoff | |
| 1989 | Volume 2: The Dark Abyss by Bruce Coville | |
| 1989 | Volume 3: The Valley of Thunder by Charles de Lint | |
| 1989 | Volume 4: The Lake of Fire by Robin W.Bailey | |
| 1990 | Volume 5: The Hidden City by Charles de Lint | |
| 1990 | Volume 6: The Final Battle by Richard A. Lupoff | |
| Riverworld | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | To Your Scattered Bodies Go expanded from "Day of the Great Shout" 1965 & "The Suicide Express" 1966 | |
| 1971 | The Fabulous Riverboat expanded from "The Felled Star" 1967 & "The Fabulous Riverboat" 1971 | |
| 1977 | The Dark Design | |
| 1979 | "Riverworld" from the anthology Riverworld and Other Stories (revised from 1966 & 1971) | |
| 1980 | The Magic Labyrinth | |
| 1980 | "Riverworld War" with an abridged version of Jesus on Mars 1979 | |
| 1983 | Gods of Riverworld | |
| 1983 | River of Eternity revised version of the never published original Riverworld novel, Owe For the Flesh | |
| 1992 | Tales 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 | ||
| 1992 | Quest 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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1965 | The Maker of Universes | |
| 1966 | The Gates of Creation | |
| 1981 The World of Tiers Volume One (omnibus of 2 above) | ||
| 1968 | A Private Cosmos | |
| 1986 World of Tiers 1 (omnibus of 3 above) | ||
| 1997 The World of Tiers Volume 1 (omnibus of 3 above) | ||
| 1970 | Behind the Walls of Terra | |
| 1977 | The Lavalite World | |
| 1981 The World of Tiers Volume Two (omnibus of 3 above) | ||
| 1986 World of Tiers 2 (omnibus of 2 above) | ||
| 1991 | Red Orc's Rage | |
| 1993 | More Than Fire | |
| 1997 The World of Tiers Volume 2 (Behind the Walls of Terra, The Lavalite World & More Than Fire) | ||
| Anthologies | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Strange 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 | ||
| 1962 | The Alley God (3 stories) | |
| "The Alley Man" 1959 "The Captain's Daughter" retitled from "Strange Compulsion" 1953 | ||
| "The God Business" 1954 | ||
| 1962 | The Celestial Blueprint (4 stories) | |
| "Rastignac the Devil" 1954 "The Celestial Blueprint" 1954 "They Twinkled Like Jewels" 1954 | ||
| "Totem and Taboo" 1954 | ||
| 1971 | Down 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 | ||
| 1973 | The 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 | ||
| 1979 | Riverworld 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 | ||
| 1981 | The 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 | ||
| 1982 | Greatheart 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 | ||
| 1982 | The 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 | ||
| 1982 | Stations 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 | ||
| 1984 | The 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 | ||
| 1984 | The 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 | ||
| 1984 | The 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 | ||
| 1992 | Riders 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 | ||
| 1974 | Mother 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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1957 | The Green Odyssey | |
| 1960 | Flesh (erotic sci-fi) | |
| 1961 | The Lovers expanded from "The Lovers" 1952 | |
| 1962 | Fire and the Night (general fiction) | |
| 1964 | Inside - Outside | |
| 1964 | Tongues of the Moon expanded from "Tongues of the Moon" 1961 | |
| 1965 | Dare | |
| 1968 | A Woman a Day aka The Day of Timestop aka Timestop! expanded from "Moth and Rust" 1953 | |
| 1970 | Lord Tyger | |
| 1970 | Love Song (erotic gothic) | |
| 1970 | The Stone God Awakens | |
| 1971 | The Wind Whales of Ishmael | |
| 1972 | Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke (fictional biography) | |
| 1972 | Time's Last Gift revised 1977 | |
| 1973 | Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life (fictional biography) | |
| 1973 | The Other Log of Phileas Fogg | |
| 1974 | Venus on the Half Shell as by Kilgore Trout | |
| 1976 | Ironcastle translated from the French L'étonnante Aventure de Hareton Ironcastle 1922 by J.H. Rosny | |
| 1979 | Jesus on Mars | |
| 1979 | Two Hawks From Earth expanded from The Gate of Time 1966 | |
| 1981 | The Unreasoning Mask | |
| 1982 | A Barnstormer in Oz | |
| 1986 | Dark Is the Sun | |
| 1991 | Escape from Loki (Doc Savage story) | |
| 1992 | The Caterpillar's Question with Piers Anthony | |
| 1998 | Naked 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 | ||
| 1998 | Nothing Burns in Hell (mystery) | |
| 1999 | The 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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | The Magic Labyrinth of Philip Jose Farmer by Edgar L. Chapman | |
| 1998 | Collecting Philip José Farmer, The Illustrated Guide, Vol. 1 by Michael Croteau | |
