First Ever Hardcover Edition of Philip José Farmer's THE OTHER LOG OF PHILEAS FOGG!

The first ever hardcover edition of Philip José Farmer's groundbreaking 1972 novel The Other Log of Phileas Fogg!

The first ever hardcover edition... 

• ...of what was "steampunk" long before the term was coined!
• ...of a key Wold Newton Universe novel!
• ...of a seminal crossover novel by one of the masters of the genre!

Don't let your Philip José Farmer collection go without this new unique edition that also includes Jules Verne's Around the World in Eight Days... 

The limited edition hardcover includes:

• Leatherette cover with gold foil stamping
• Custom printed end papers
• Illustrated signature page in color, signed by contributors Win Scott Eckert, Henry Franke, Dennis Power, and cover artist M. S. Corley!

BOTH the limited edition hardcover and the trade paperback include:

• Farmer’s Foreword and Introduction (as included in all prior editions of Other Log)
• “A Submersible Subterfuge, or, Proof Impositive” by H. W. Starr (as included in all prior editions of Other Log)
• “Jules Verne’s Extraordinary Voyages Around the World” by Jules Verne expert Henry G. Franke III
• “Only a Coincidence: Phileas Fogg, Philip José Farmer, and the Wold Newton Family” by Farmer and Wold Newton Family expert Win Scott Eckert—including a family tree graphic showing Philip José Farmer’s place in the Wold Newton Family!
• “A Chronology of Major Events Pertinent to The Other Log of Phileas Fogg” by Win Scott Eckert
  

Also included are two bonus stories, set in the latter part of the novel when Fogg and company are traveling across the midwestern United States:

• “Being an Account of the Delay at Green River, Wyoming of Phileas Fogg, World Traveler” by Win Scott Eckert
• “Passing through the Hands of Steel” by Dennis E. Power

In addition, by arrangement with artist Rick J. Bryant, we have included his original interior illustrations originally published in the 1982 TOR Books edition of Other Log!

Preorder your copy today!

The Lone Ranger: Frontier Justice - Table of Contents

I'm very pleased to announce the Table of Contents for Moonstone Books' forthcoming anthology, The Lone Ranger: Frontier Justice, edited by Matthew Baugh.

• Introduction—Troy D. Smith
• Daze of Yesteryear—Lane Adamson 
• Being an Account of the Delay at Green River, Wyoming of Phileas Fogg, World Traveler—Win Scott Eckert (1872) 
• Ghost Flowers—Thom Brannan (1874)
• Stone Creek Revenge—Joe Gentile (1874–75) 
• Soul of the East—Frank Schildiner (1876)
• The Lake Spirit—Troy D. Smith (1878)
• The Last Uprising—Matthew Baugh (1879)
• Frozen Hell on the Llano—Chuck Dixon (1880)
• To the Land of Gold—Richard Dean Starr (1883) 
• Dead Man’s Gold—Bill Crider (1885) 
• The Death of the Lone Ranger—Tim Lasiuta (1887) 
• Tonto, Teddy, and the Ranger—Johnny D. Boggs (1905) 
• Encounters—Various Authors 
• Leap of Faith—Thom Brannan 

The masked ex-Texas ranger and the Native warrior Tonto fight injustice in the Wild West, in an anthology of brand new, never before seen stories! Guest starring Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, The Cisco Kid, Phileas Fogg, and more!

The "Encounters" section is a unique idea, with snippets of short-short "what if" tales. My own "encounter" takes place in 1873 and flows from the events of my 1872 story. Fans of Barbara Hambly's Star Trek novel Ishmael might be pleased.

The book is scheduled for a July 2018 release and is available for preorder from Amazon. Hopefully I'll have copies on hand in time for PulpFest 2018 in late July.

The Lone Ranger and Tonto: Frontier Justice

Announcing The Lone Ranger and Tonto: Frontier Justice, an anthology of new stories edited by Matthew Baugh, in which the masked ex-Texas ranger and the Native warrior Tonto fight injustice in the Wild West!

My story is "Being an Account of the Delay at Green River, Wyoming, of Phileas Fogg, World Traveler, or, The Masked Man Meets an English Gentleman."

Coming from Moonstone Books in March 2018!

Preorder on Amazon

Sherlock Holmes chapbook - available for preorder

I'm pleased to announce that my Sherlock Holmes chapbook, The Adventure of the Fallen Stone,is available for preorder right now from Meteor House. I'll be signing all copies at Win Scott Eckert Meet & Greet and Book Signing at Fleur Fine Books in Port Neches, TX on March 25, 2017. Thereafter, I'll ship the books back to Meteor House HQ in Atlanta for distribution to readers worldwide!

Link to preorder.

While you're there, please also consider picking up my first chapbook, Being an Account of the Delay at Green River, Wyoming, of Phileas Fogg, World Traveler, or, The Masked Man Meets an English Gentleman.

Link to order.


Thanks, and Happy Monday!

Headed to PulpFest 2016 / FarmerCon XI

I'm excited to see all my pulp collecting pals and fellow Philip José Farmer fans starting tomorrow at PulpFest 2016 / FarmerCon XI (July 21 - 24, 2016).

I am officially on vacation starting today, wrapping up several things around the house in preparation for an O-Dark-Hundred flight to Columbus, Ohio tomorrow morning.

In addition to helping man the Meteor House table, chatting with customers, as well as fellow readers and fans, and scouring the dealers' room for additions to my own collection, I have a reading scheduled and will appear on two panels.

Friday, July 22

Sometime between 1 pm and 4:15 pm: PulpFest 2016 and the New Fictioneers. I will be reading from my new chapbook, Being an Account of the Delay at Green River, Wyoming, of Phileas Fogg, World Traveler, or, The Masked Man Meets an English Gentleman.

7 - 7:40 pm: FarmerCon XI. Christopher Paul Carey, Paul Spiteri, Danny Adams and I (all of whom have cowritten books or stories with Philip José Farmer) discuss "Collaborating with a Grand Master."

Saturday, July, 23

2 - 2:50 pm: I join moderator Ron Fortier and fellow panelists Barbara Doran, Andy Fix, and Jeff Venture to discuss writing hero pulp in "The AMAZING World of New Pulp."

I hope to see you in Columbus!

Two Announcements: The Green Ghost & Phileas Fogg!

After a long (-LONG!-) dry spell, Fate has dealt a strange hand: two books announced, by two separate publishers, on the very same day!

First up is The Green Ghost: Declassified!

Moonstone Books - Coming in October 2016!
The Green Ghost: Declassified
By Win Scott Eckert & Eric Fein

The Green Ghost—magician sleuth George Chance—returns! Once a debunker of the supernatural, the Green Ghost terrorized criminals with his horrific skull-face and wraithlike abilities. But criminologist Chance came back from Europe changed—for his wartime experiences taught him: the occult and night creatures were real! Thrill to new prose and comic book tales featuring a multitude of murderers, monsters, and crossovers with I.V. Frost, the Domino Lady, and more!

Authors: Win Scott Eckert & Eric Fein
Artist: David Niehaus
Cover: Malcolm McClinton

Softcover, 7” x 10”, grayscale, $14.99





Next is Meteor House's very first chapbook (signed, limited edition, now available for preorder), featuring a Phileas Fogg short story:

"Being an Account of the Delay at Green River, Wyoming, of Phileas Fogg, World Traveler, or, The Masked Man Meets an English Gentleman"

US $8
5.5×8.5, 28 pages
Limited Edition of ??? Signed copies
Cover: Keith Howell
Ships in early August 2016

December 1872. Phileas Fogg, the lovely Aouda, and his faithful manservant Passepartout, are nearing the end of their frenzied eighty-day dash around the world…

One wouldn’t think, as Fogg and Co. speed across North America on the transcontinental railroad, that they would have time to befriend a mysterious masked lawman, match wits with a long-lived criminal mastermind and his tong, and battle anti-Chinese sentiment in Old West coal mining communities.

One would be wrong.

Win Scott Eckert pulls back the veil on the previously untold tale of Mr. Phileas Fogg’s fateful encounter with the legendary masked rider of the plains and his faithful companion—an episode suppressed (with good reason!) by M. Verne himself from the final publication of his classic Around the World in Eighty Days.



The Green Ghost: Declassified is due out in October 2016 and will be available for preorder via Diamond, as well as available via Amazon, etc. There will also be a hardcover edition available exclusively through Moonstone Books.

The Phileas Fogg chapbook is now available for preorder; Meteor House will ship preordered copies after I sign the books at PulpFest in late July 2016. Reserve your copy now!

Wold Newton Book Sale!

Meteor House is pleased to offer three special preorder package deals for the Signed Limited Edition hardcover of The Scarlet Jaguar by Win Scott Eckert, now through the end of October (or while supplies last).

PACKAGE #1: Save $5 plus even more with the combined shipping discount!

Purchase The Scarlet Jaguar with The Evil in Pemberley House by Philip José Farmer and Win Scott Eckert — both Pat Wildman adventures!

Meteor House’s trade paperback edition of The Evil in Pemberley House is full of bonus materials:

• Foreword to the 2014 Edition
• A Pemberley House/Wold Newton Family graphic tree
• An Expanded Pemberley House/Wold Newton Family graphic tree, including SPOILERS from the novel
• Outline for the novel by Philip José Farmer
• A timeline of key events in the novel by Win Scott Eckert
• A “Creative Mythography” essay by Win Scott Eckert, about the research and writing of the novel and ensuring it remained in continuity with Farmer’s other Wold Newtonian works, such as Tarzan Alive, Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life, and The Adventure of the Peerless Peer

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PACKAGE #2: Save $5 plus even more with the combined shipping discount!

Purchase The Scarlet Jaguar with Phileas Fogg and the War of Shadows by Josh Reynolds.

The Other Log of Phileas Fogg was only the beginning! It is 1889 and Phileas Fogg has settled into a life of quiet sequestration in the rural idyll of his family estate with his wife and children. The millenia-old conflict which once threatened to consume him is over and done. Or so he thought…

With less than 20 copies remaining of the Hardcover Limited Edition of Phileas Fogg and the War of Shadows, this offer is only good while supplies last!

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PACKAGE #3: Save $10 plus even more with the combined shipping discount!

Purchase The Scarlet Jaguar and The Evil in Pemberley House and Phileas Fogg and the War of Shadows.

One Mega-deal for all three books. Again, only while supplies last!

Reminder for Philip José Farmer fans!

Just a reminder that Titan Books kicks off it's Wold Newton Series of Philip José Farmer reissues in two short weeks with the elder steampunk novel The Other Log of Phileas Fogg, due in bookstores on May 8!

I'm also pleased to announce that this edition contains the original interior illustrations by Rick J. Bryant found in the 1982 Tor Books edition.

Of course, H.W. Starr's addendum entitled "A Submersible Subterfuge, or Proof Impositve" is also included.

The Titan edition also includes two new pieces:

• Afterword by Win Scott Eckert: "Only a Coincidence: Phileas Fogg, Philip José Farmer, and the Wold Newton Family"

(Family tree fans take note--this afterword has a new chart which is an extension of the Wold Newton Family tree charts found in Farmer's Tarzan Alive and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life!)

• Chronology by Win Scott Eckert: "A Chronology of Major Events Pertinent to The Other Log of Phileas Fogg 

And if you already own a copy of the book, I can't put if better than my friend Mike Croteau, webmaster of the Official Philip José Farmer Home Page:

Let's face it, if you already own a copy (or several) of any of these titles, the bonus materials are why you are buying these books. The real key will be if new readers are attracted to the books and buy them (yea again for the great covers). If so, these bonus materials, most with an emphasis on the Wold Newton Universe and how the books are related to each other, should help make it so new readers don't stop at just one. How about this: Do Phil's memory a big favor and buy at least one of these titles just to give it to someone who has never read Farmer. See if you can't set the hook and reel them in. You know you would be doing them a great favor in the long run.

Order your copy now--and put the next book in the series, Time's Last Gift, on your list as well!

• Amazon 
• Barnes & Noble 
• Titan Books direct

Countdown to the new Philip José Farmer books from Titan! (post #1)

Over the next few weeks I'll be outlining Titan Books' current plans for its series of Philip José Farmer reissues, so stay tuned to this space, or Facebook!

As previously announced, three titles are coming very soon. And of course one Wold Newton book by Farmer has already been published, although it fell under the umbrella of their "Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" line.

The Wold Newton series will have several different "sub-series." Currently the "main" Wold Newton series and the "Prehistory" sub-series are listed. More to come!

Wold Newton Series

The Peerless Peer (June 2011)

•  Afterword by Win Scott Eckert
  

• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble
• Titan Books direct
  

 

The Other Log of Phileas Fogg (May 2012)

• Afterword by Win Scott Eckert: "Only a Coincidence: Phileas Fogg, Philip José Farmer, and the Wold Newton Family"
• Chronology by Win Scott Eckert: "A Chronology of Major Events Pertinent to The Other Log of Phileas Fogg"

• Amazon 
• Barnes & Noble 
• Titan Books direct

(Wold Newton Prehistory Series)

Time’s Last Gift (June 2012)

• Afterword by Christopher Paul Carey: ""John Gribardsun and the Prehistoric Wold Newton Family"
• Chronology by Win Scott Eckert and Dennis E. Power: "Gribardsun through the Ages: A Chronology of Major Events Pertinent to Time’s Last Gift"

• Amazon 
• Barnes & Noble
• Titan Books direct

Grandmaster Series

Lord Tyger (July 2012)

• (Bonus materials to be announced next post!)

• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble

The Other Log of Phileas Fogg - Bonus Materials

I'm very pleased to announce that I'll be contributing two bonus pieces to the Titan Books reissue of Philip José Farmer's "secret history" novel The Other Log of Phileas Fogg.

Other Log reveals the hidden events behind Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days. First published in 1973, the book is considered to be one of the first examples of elder steampunk.

The Other Log of Phileas Fogg is currently scheduled for release in May 2012, and is available for pre-order at major outlets such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Editions include trade paperback and digital (Kindle & Nook).

Other Log kicks off Titan's series of Wold Newton novels, to be followed by Time's Last Gift in June 2012. More titles will follow, so stay tuned to Mr. Farmer's official website, and Facebook (Philip Jose Farmer | Win Scott Eckert) for more information.

As for the bonus materials, the new edition will contain the following pieces, exclusive to this edition:

• a new afterword entitled "Only a Coincidence: Phileas Fogg, Philip José Farmer, and the Wold Newton Family"
• a timeline entitled "A Chronology of Major Events Pertinent to The Other Log of Phileas Fogg"

So get over to Amazon or Barnes & Noble and get your pre-order in now!

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Day 3 of a week of posts of non-English language Philip José Farmer books in my collection...