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To My Sister, Joan




Table of Contents
Preface
My Sister's Brother
Skinburn
The Alley Man
Father's in the Basement
Toward the Beloved City
Polytropical Paramyths
Don't Wash the Carats
The Sumerian Oath
Only Who Can Make a Tree?
The Last Rise of Nick Adams
The Freshman
Uproar in Acheron
An Exclusive Interview with Lord Greystoke
Sexual Implications of the Charge of the Light Brigade
The Obscure Life and Hard Times of Kilgore Trout
Thanks for the Feast
Notes on Philip Jos├й Farmer by Leslie A. Fiedler




Preface
This collection is a reprint of The Book of Philip Jos├й Farmer, published in
1973 in softcover in the States and in hardcover in England in 1976. However, for this
edition the forewords, where needing it, have been revised and updated. And since
three stories, "Totem and Taboo," "The Voice of the Sonar in My Vermiform
Appendix," and "Brass and Gold" have been recently reprinted in other collections, I
have replaced them with "The Last Rise of Nick Adams," "The Freshman," and a non-
science-fiction tale, "Uproar in Acheron."
The title of this book implies a broad spectrum of my works, samples from
each of the many fields of the vast genre of science-fiction in which I've worked.
(Played, rather.)
Unfortunately, I can't include every field. I've written stories in many:
adventure, space opera, parallel worlds, pocket universes, psychological, political,
sexual, biological, pastiche, parody, religious, horror, time travel, ESP, "biograph-
ical," Cthulhu mythos, metaphysical, ecological, and Marxian. The last term refers to
Groucho, Chico, and Harpo, not Karl, and could be applied to my polytropical
paramyths. To include one sample of each would make a book twice as long as this,
maybe three times as long. Also, some of the samples would have to be novels.