Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life - New Revised Deluxe Hardcover Edition

And, without further ado... Meteor House is proud to announce a new edition of Philip José Farmer’s landmark biography!


Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life is now available for preorder and will be available in July 2013!

Cover by Doc Savage cover artist Joe DeVito!

Back in print for the first time in over 30 years, Philip José Farmer’s biography of the bronze crusader who fought almost 200 separate battles against the forces of evil “is ingenious, sardonic, adulatory, outrageous and funny in turn.” (Publisher’s Weekly)

I am the lucky guy who is penning a new foreword for this edition, and am having a ball reviewing all prior editions and putting together the bonus features. More info, including preorder details, behind the link:

Preorder direct from Meteor House

More from the preorder page:

Available now for preorder, the newly revised edition of Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life also features a brand new foreword by Farmer and pulp expert Win Scott Eckert, updates to the “List of Doc Savage Stories” including the latest novels, and rare material culled from Mr. Farmer’s notes. 

The deluxe hardcover edition arrives just in time for Doc’s 80th anniversary, and features tributes by other Farmer and Doc experts, including John Allen Small, Keith Howell, Rick Lai, Art Sippo, Christopher Paul Carey, and current Doc Savage writer Will Murray, as well as other bonus materials not seen in prior editions, such as: 

• Doc’s Coat of Arms, reconstructed by Win Scott Eckert and illustrated by Keith Howell, from notes by Philip José Farmer 

• A List of Doc Savage Comics by Win Scott Eckert and John Allen Small, a rundown of authorized Doc Savage comics which supplements Mr. Farmer’s List of Doc Savage Stories 

• Writing Doc’s Biography by Philip José Farmer 

 
“Written with wit and charm, sprinkled with allusions, this is a book to delight both science fiction and mystery fans.” (Library Journal)


All copies preordered by June 30th, 2013 will be signed by me at FarmerCon VIII / Pulpfest 2013. In addition, Meteor House will try to organize a signing by the bonus material contributors (John Allen Small, Keith Howell, Rick Lai, Art Sippo, Christopher Paul Carey, and Will Murray), who are available at FarmerCon VIII / Pulpfest 2013. (Hint: almost all of them are sure to be there!)

Hurry, get your preorder in now! Preorder direct from Meteor House.

TOC: Tales of the Wold Newton Universe by Philip José Farmer and Others

Tales of the Wold Newton Universe

A collection of Wold Newton-inspired short stories by Farmerphiles, experts, and the Grand Master of SF himself.

I am pleased to announce that Titan Books has settled on the final Table of Contents for the Wold Newton Anthology, Tales of the Wold Newton Universe. The book collects, for the first time ever in one volume, Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton short stories, and also includes tales by other writers.

The Introduction by Win Scott Eckert (coauthor with Farmer of the Wold Newton novel The Evil in Pemberley House) and Christopher Paul Carey (coauthor with Farmer of the Khokarsa novel The Song of Kwasin) will provide an overview of Farmer's Wold Newton Family and Mythos. In addition, Eckert and Carey will provide brief introductions to the stories themselves, explaining why each entry is a Wold Newton tale.

Tales of the Wold Newton Universe is available for preorder at Amazon, AmazonUK, and B&N. As with all the Farmer books from Titan, there will also be an eBook version.

Contents

Introduction by Win Scott Eckert and Christopher Paul Carey

The Great Detective and Others
“The Problem of the Sore Bridge--Among Others” by Harry Manders	Philip José Farmer
"A Scarletin Study" by Jonathan Swift Somers III	Philip José Farmer
"The Doge Whose Barque Was Worse Than His Bight" by Jonathan Swift Somers III	Philip José Farmer
Pulp Inspirations
“Skinburn”	Philip José Farmer
“The Freshman”	Philip José Farmer
“After King Kong Fell”	Philip José Farmer
Wold Newton Prehistory: The Khokarsa Series
"Kwasin and the Bear God"	Philip José Farmer and Christopher Paul Carey
Wold Newton Prehistory: John Gribardsun & Time's Last Gift
"Into Time's Abyss"	John Allen Small
"The Last of the Guaranys"	Octavio Aragão & Carlos Orsi
Wold Newton Origins / Secrets of the Nine
"The Wild Huntsman"	Win Scott Eckert

Cover Reveal: Sherlock Holmes und die Legende von Greystoke

With a tip of the hat to Rias Nuninga at the Philip José Farmer International Bibliography site, I'm pleased to reveal the cover for the new German edition of Farmer's Wold Newton novel The Adventure of the Peerless Peer. 

The new edition, Sherlock Holmes und die Legende von Greystoke (Sherlock Holmes and the Legend of Greystoke), is forthcoming in Spring 2013 from Atlantis Verlag (German version). English translation: Atlantis Verlag. 

I'm very happy to report that the afterword I penned for the Titan Books reissue (The Peerless Peer, June 2011) has also been translated and will be included in the German edition. The foreword is by Christian Endres and the new cover is by Mark Freier.

The book will be available in hardcover, softcover, and eBook.

Honey West and T.H.E Cat, in A GIRL AND HER CAT!

It’s Honey West and T.H.E Cat, in the first new Honey West novel in over 40 years, A Girl and Her Cat!

Following on the heels of the first ever Honey West & T.H.E Cat crossover comic, Moonstone's "Death in the Desert," comes the Honey West & T.H.E Cat novel, A Girl and Her Cat.....

When an exotic green-eyed Asian doctor hires Honey to recover a stolen sample of a new Rubella vaccine from a rival scientist, the blonde bombshell private eye—suspicious but bored—takes the case. But after she’s attacked not once, but twice, on her way from Long Beach to San Francisco to track down her quarry, she knows there’s more—much more—to her femme fatale client than meets the eye.

Along the way, Honey’s one-time paramour Johnny Doom—ex-bounty hunter and current Company agent—reenters the picture, and the gorgeous doctor’s insidious—and deadly—grandfather deals himself in. But when Honey questions whether Johnny’s playing her game, or just playing her for a patsy, she joins forces—as only Honey can—with the one man in Frisco who can help her recover the stolen vaccine-cum-bioweapon and prevent worldwide genocide by germ-warfare—former cat burglar-turned-bodyguard Thomas Hewitt Edward Cat: T.H.E Cat! 

Join writers Win Scott Eckert and Matthew Baugh, and cover artist Douglas Klauba, for A Girl and Her Cat, a groovy, racy 1960s romp coming in 2013 from Moonstone!

(Promotional art - not actual cover)

• Win Scott Eckert (The Green Hornet, The Avenger, The Domino Lady, Zorro, The Phantom, Sherlock Holmes, Wold Newton Origins, etc.)
• Matthew Baugh (Zorro, The Avenger, The Green Hornet, Sherlock Holmes, Six-Guns Straight from Hell, The Phantom, the Cthulhu Mythos, etc.)
• Douglas Klauba (The Phantom, Zorro, The Green Hornet, The Spider, Kolchak, The Black Terror, The Green Lama, Philip Marlowe, Doc Savage, etc.)
• Moonstone: Classic & new heroes in thrilling tales of adventure, mystery, & horror!

LORD OF THE TREES!

Coming next Tuesday, Nov 13, from Titan Books ... Lord of the Trees (Secrets of the Nine #2 - Wold Newton Parallel Universe) (The Memoirs of Lord Grandirth)

"Having lived long enough with the charming fairy tale created by my biographer, I feel the time has come for the truth to be known. I propose to tell all; of the origins of The Nine, the elixir that gives us nearly eternal youth and superhuman strength, the struggles between us that set the world atremble."

A brand-new edition of the classic novel, a follow-up to Philip José Farmer's shocking and controversial A Feast Unknown.

Featuring an all-new Introduction, which I have written especially for this edition, "A Tale of Two Universes."

Pre-order your copy now, in print and eBook!

• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble
• Forbidden Planet

The Wild Huntsman

    Thus, Tarzan has as ancestor Woden. It would be difficult to find a more highly placed forefather than the All-Father.
     Perhaps the great god of the North is not dead but is in hiding. It pleased the Wild Huntsman to direct the falling star of Wold Newton near the two coaches. Thus, in a manner of speaking, he fathered the children of the occupants. The mutated and recessive genes would be reinforced, kept from being lost, by the frequent marriages among the descendants of the irradiated parents.
—Philip José Farmer, Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke

In November 1795, after undergoing a harrowing adventure in France, Sir Percy Blakeney—The Scarlet Pimpernel—decided to call a Conclave of some of the most remarkable people of his time to plan how to influence the political and revolutionary climate sweeping across Europe. These extraordinary people, many of them heroes in their own right, were the ancestors of a group of mutant supermen who have played a large role in our affairs—Sherlock Holmes, Doc Wildman, Captain Nemo, and the lord of the jungle, among many others.

It is December 13, 1795. The ionized radiation accompanying a meteor strike in the tiny village of Wold Newton, Yorkshire, endows Blakeney and his fellow Conclave attendees with a boost—a nova of genetic splendor—that will result in those supermen and women.

Or does it?

A mysterious time traveler has come to Wold Newton to witness the momentous event, and is quickly drawn into investigating a series of impossible murders heralded by an ominous tolling, murders never recorded in the history books. As the Conclave guests divide into camps, and hopes for a solution to the European problem dwindle, so too dwindles hope for the future. For if the enigmatic time voyager cannot overcome the machinations of an immortal trickster and ensure that the right people are at the right place, at the right time, then not only will his own future and past be erased, but the whole of history itself will be rewritten…

Drawing on the cornerstone Wold Newton novels, biographies, and stories by science-fiction Grandmaster Philip José Farmer, including Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke, Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life, Time’s Last Gift, The Other Log of Phileas Fogg, and A Feast Unknown, “The Wild Huntsman” is a 12,000-word novelette by Wold Newton expert Win Scott Eckert. A sequel to Eckert’s tale “Is He in Hell?” (The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 1: Protean Dimensions), “The Wild Huntsman” will see publication in Meteor House’s The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 3: Portraits of a Trickster (2012).

Note: Time is running out for readers to win to a chance be Tuckerized in a major story in The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 3: Portraits of a Trickster. Readers can enter this contest up to three times (see www.pjfarmer.com for details) but the deadline is June 30.

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

PulpFest 2011 / FarmerCon VI podcasts

The Book Cave: PulpFest Special 1

Credit and thanks go to Art Sippo for recording this episode at PulpFest. This episode has Wayne Reinagel and Win Scott Eckert reading from their books. This week will feature several more recordings from PulpFest. If you weren't able to attend, this is the next best thing.

The Book Cave: PulpFest Special 4

Credit and thanks go to Art Sippo for recording this episode. Ron Fortier moderates a panel on New Pulp. Panel members include Duane Spurlock, Bill Craig, Greg Gick,Wayne Reinagel, Art Sippo, and Win Scott Eckert.

The Book Cave: PulpFest Special 6

Thanks and credit go to Jason Aiken for the final episode of PulpFest. FarmerCon VI, featuring:

• Mike Croteau: Philip Jose Farmer and the history of FarmerCon
• Win Scott Eckert: The Wold Newton Universe
• Art Sippo: A Feast Unknown
• Rick Lai: The Shadow and Wold Newton
  

Ltd ed of THE EVIL IN PEMBERLEY HOUSE sold out

With a mixture of pleasure and wistfulness, I note that the limited edition of The Evil in Pemberley House is now sold out.

Trade editions still available, of course:
* Direct from Subterranean Press
* Amazon.com
* Barnes&Noble.com
* Tor.com
* Borders.com
* Camelot Books

THE EVIL IN PEMBERLEY HOUSE ltd ed half off in Subterranean Press eBay sale

Subterranean Press has listed several copies of the limited edition of The Evil in Pemberley House on their eBay store -- half price!

If you've been waiting to get a limited edition... you probably shouldn't wait much longer...

Tales of the Shadowmen, Vol. 6: Grand Guignol - pre-order on Amazon

Tales of the Shadowmen, Vol. 6: Grand Guignol is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com.

Edited by Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier, this latest entry in the Tales of the Shadowmen anthology series from Black Coat Press "is dedicated to simpler horrors and theatrical villainy. Tremble as you face the terror of Fantômas, the villainy of Madame Atomos, the sorcery of Leonox, the unspeakable King in Yellow and the insanity of Alphaville! Fortunately for us, and for the world, there are always stalwart heroes rising up to stem the tides of darkness and restore peace and order to the world. Chevalier Dupin! Harry Dickson! Mowgli! Arsène Lupin! The Scarlet Pimpernel! Raffles and many more are there, to confront crazy sorcerers and ravening zombies, mad scientists and giant rats, evil computers and Hindu death cults, Martians and monsters!"

Contents:

• Christopher Paul Carey: Caesar's Children starring The Ponto Family.
• Win Scott Eckert: Is He in Hell? starring The Scarlet Pimpernel, Leonox.
• Emmanuel Gorlier: Out of Time starring The Nyctalope, The Time Patrol.
• Matthew Baugh & Micah Harris: The Scorpion and the Fox starring Becky Sharp, the Yellow Shadow.
• Travis Hiltz: The Treasure of the Ubasti starring Sâr Dubnotal, Mowgli.
• Rick Lai: Incident in the Boer War starring Fantômas, Raffles.
• Roman Leary: The Children of Heracles starring The Nyctalope, Professor Quatermass, The Master.
• Jean-Marc Lofficier: J.C. in Alphaville starring Jerry Cornelius, Alphaville, The Castle.
• Randy Lofficier: The Spear of Destiny starring Phantom Angel.
• Xavier Mauméjean: The Man for the Job
• William P. Maynard: Yes Virginia There is a Fantômas starring Fantômas, Frederick Dickson.
• John Peel: The Biggest Guns starring Doc Ardan, Lord Roxton, The Gun Club.
• Neil Penswick: The Vampire Murders starring Harry Dickson.
• Dennis E. Power: No Good Deed… starring Père Tabaret, Chevalier Dupin.
• Frank Schildiner: Laurels for the Toff starring Jean Kariven, The Toff.
• Bradley H. Sinor: Where the Shadows Began... starring Michel Ardan, Inspector Legrasse.
• Michel Stéphan: The Red Silk Scarf starring Harry Dickson, Madame Atomos.
• David L. Vineyard: The Children's Crusade starring Arsene Lupin, Harry Lime.
• Brian Stableford: Where Zombies Armies Clash by Night (Part IV of The Empire of the Necromancers) starring Ned Knob, Germain Patou.

For you Wold Newton fans out there, my tale pitting the Scarlet Pimpernel against Leonox takes place in November 1795--just one short month before a meteor with strange properties landed near the village of Wold Newton, England.

Hmmm.

CROSSOVERS: A Secret Chronology of the World, Volume 1 -- cover by Mark Maddox!

...And here it is!

Artist Mark Maddox has done a wonderful job bringing my and Black Coat Press publisher Jean Marc Lofficier's vision for the cover to life.

We've already supplied our direction for Volume 2 and have no doubt the results will be equally stunning!

THE EVIL IN PEMBERLEY HOUSE - author copies have arrived...

... and wow!

Upon removing the dust jacket, I see that the regular trade HC is bound in blue cloth, while the limited HC is bound in purple cloth. Very nice. For those readers who purchase the regular trade HC, that version has no Wold Newton Family tree chart on the end sheets. I've made the chart available at The Evil in Pemberley House website. Just scroll down the right navigation bar to THE EVIL IN PEMBERLEY HOUSE - FAMILY TREE. Note that this version of the chart is Spoiler-Free; it does not give away any of the novel's mysteries.

The Limited Edition HC has this very same Spoiler-Free family tree chart in the book's end sheets. The Chapbook that comes with the Limited Edition has the Spoilers version of the family tree on the inside front and back covers. I will not be making that version of the family tree chart available electronically, at least not for some time--you'll need to buy the Limited Edition for that. :-) From what I can tell, copies of the Limited Edition are going very quickly.

All in all, I'm incredibly pleased, and feel very lucky. It's a beautiful package all around.

THE EVIL IN PEMBERLEY HOUSE - shipping complete & 1st look at Limited Edition Chapbook cover

According to Subterranean Press, all individual, retail, and wholesale orders for The Evil in Pemberley House have shipped.

I have yet to receive my author copies, but Mike Croteau of The Official Philip José Farmer Home Page got his copy today, and kindly has provided a scan of the Limited Edition Chapbook cover, featuring the Doc Wildman ("Doc Savage") Coat of Arms as designed and described by Philip José Farmer in Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life (with a couple extra touches added from Phil's unpublished notes by yours truly) and lovingly rendered by Keith Howell.

Subterranean Press
Amazon.com

Library Journal review of THE EVIL IN PEMBERLEY HOUSE

The folks over at Subterranean Press have noted that Library Journal has reviewed The Evil in Pemberley House, saying "this dark erotic novel mixes the gothic-horror format with pieces of Sherlockian mysteries as well as homages to Tarzan of Greystoke and the Doc Savage series."

Yep!

Booklist reviews THE EVIL IN PEMBERLEY HOUSE

The good folks over at Subterranean Press have posted a blurb from Booklist's review of The Evil in Pemberley House.

"Part pulp romance, part erotic thriller, Farmer and Eckert’s yarn is a steamy, intriguing addition to Wold Newton lore."

Golly!

50% Off Sale on Subterranean Press Forthcoming Titles, including THE EVIL IN PEMBERLEY HOUSE

Go to this Subterranean Press page for more information!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The Evil in Pemberley House by Philip José Farmer and Win Scott Eckert

The Evil is coming...

A darkly erotic Jane Austen-Pulp Fiction-Sherlockian-Gothic-Wold Newton mashup, in which the Man of Bronze's daughter confronts her family's ancient legacy, lays a ghost to rest, and meets her destiny!

The Wold Newton novel, The Evil in Pemberley House, by Philip José Farmer and Win Scott Eckert, will be published in late September 2009 by Subterranean Press. Dust jacket by Glen Orbik.

Early reviews:

• John Allen Small
• Art Sippo
• Dennis E. Power

Pre-order:

• Direct from Subterranean Press, including the signed Limited Edition with Chapbook
• Amazon.com
• Barnes&Noble.com
• Tor.com
• Borders.com
• Tattered Cover
• Camelot Books (trade edition)
• Camelot Books (limited edition)

Trade -- Fully cloth bound hardcover edition:

• novel
• endsheets with a Pemberley House/Wold Newton Family tree

Limited Edition -- 200 numbered copies, signed by Win Scott Eckert, with bonus chapbook:

• cover art (the Doc Wildman [Doc Savage] Coat of Arms by Keith Howell)
• endsheets with an expanded Pemberley House/Wold Newton Family tree--including SPOILERS from the novel
• notes on the Wildman Coat of Arms by Philip José Farmer
• outline for the novel by Philip José Farmer
• timeline of key events in the novel by Win Scott Eckert
• Wold Newtonian essay by Win Scott Eckert

Trade: $40

ISBN: 978-1-59606-249-8

Limited: $60