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INTRODUCTION
All characters in this book are fictitious. Any
resemblance to
actual persons, living
or dead, is purely
coincidental.
A PRIVATE COSMOS
A Berkley Book / published by arrangement with the author
PRINTING HISTORY
Previously published by Ace Books. Berkley edition / November 1984
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Copyright ┬й 1968 by Philip Jos┬г farmer.
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IT ALL GOES BACK to my childhood of about a year ago, when I read The Maker of Universes. I recall
it to have been a sunny Saturday in Baltimore and its morning, when I picked up Philip Jose
Farmer's book with the green Gaughan sky and the gray Gaughan harpy (Podarge) on the front, to
read a page or two before beginning work on a story of my own. I didn't do any writing that day.
I finished reading the book and immediately dashed off to my local purveyor of paperbacks, to
locate the sequel which I knew existed, The Gates of Creation. When I'd finished reading it, the
sunny morning in Saturday and its Baltimore had gone away and night filled the day all the way up
to the top of the sky. The next thing that I wrote was not my story, but a fan letter to Philip
Jose Farmer.
My intention was not to tell the man who had written The Lovers and Fire and the Night and A Woman
A Day that I thought these two new ones were the best things he had ever done. If he'd done a
painting, composed a piece of music, I couldn't
compare them to his stories or even to each other. The two books I had just then finished reading
were of the adventure-romance sort, and I felt they were exceedingly good examples of the type.
They are different from his other stories, styles, themes, different even from each other, and
hence, as always, incomparable. I had hoped there would be a third one, and I was very pleased to
learn that he was working on it.
In other words, I looked forward for over a year to the book you are presently holding in your
hands.
In considering my own feelings, to determine precisely what it was that caused me to be so taken
by the first two books, I found that there are several reasons for the appeal they hold for me:
1) I am fascinated by the concept of physical immortality and the ills and benefits attendant
thereto. This theme runs through the books like an highly polished strand of copper wire. 2) The
concept of pocket universesтАФa thing quite distinct, as I see it, from various parallel worlds
notionsтАФthe idea of such universes, specifically created to serve the ends of powerful and
intelligent beings, is a neat one. Here it allows for, among other things, the fascinating