Venus on the Half-Shell and Others collects for the first time the best of the best from Philip Jos? Farmer's scintillating fictional-author period. In the mid-1970s a fever-pitched furor was created when an actual novel purported to be by Kilgore Trout -- the sadsack science fiction writer who appears as a character in the works of Kurt Vonnegut -- materialized on the bookracks, complete with a mysterious back cover photo of the author looking like a bearded vagabond sage. Debate raged as to who had truly written Venus on ...
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Venus on the Half-Shell and Others collects for the first time the best of the best from Philip Jos? Farmer's scintillating fictional-author period. In the mid-1970s a fever-pitched furor was created when an actual novel purported to be by Kilgore Trout -- the sadsack science fiction writer who appears as a character in the works of Kurt Vonnegut -- materialized on the bookracks, complete with a mysterious back cover photo of the author looking like a bearded vagabond sage. Debate raged as to who had truly written Venus on the Half-Shell. Was it Vonnegut himself, or perhaps Theodore Sturgeon, rumored to have been the inspiration for Trout? Or did Kilgore Trout really exist? Just as one respected newspaper published an article proving that Vonnegut had written the book, the Hugo Award-winning science fiction author Philip Jose Farmer announced he was the true author. The controversial Kilgore Trout episode was neither the first nor the last time Farmer would impishly slip out of h
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Fine in very good dust jacket. Signed by illustrator. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 323 p. Audience: General/trade. No. 19 of 125 and 26 lettered copies signed by Philip Jose Farmer. Clean, tight unmarked copy. Dust jacket preserved in Mylar.
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Eggleton, Bob. 323 p. 1st Limited Edition hardcover from Subterranean, 2008. SIGNED BY PHILIP JOSE` FARMER! One of only 125 such copies. NEW IN DJ AND SLIPCASE. Bob Eggleton jacket art.
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Dust jacket in very good condition. First edition. SIGNED by the illustrator. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Signed by Bon Eggleton. Secure packaging for safe delivery.