Farmer, Philip José –
(Kilgore Trout, John H. Watson)
PERSONAL: Born January 26, , in North Terre Haute, IN; son of George (a civil and electrical engineer) and Lucile Theodora (Jackson) Farmer; married Elizabeth Virginia Andre, May 10, ; children: Philip Laird, Kristen. Education: Attended University of Missouri, –37, ; Bradley University, B.A., ; Arizona State University, graduate study, –
ADDRESSES: Home— North Isabell Ave., Peoria, IL Agent—Ted Chichak of Scovil, Chichak, Galen, Park Avenue South, Suite , New York, NY,
CAREER: Worked at various jobs, –56, with some periods as full-time writer; General Electric, Syracuse, NY, technical writer, –58; Motorola, Scottsdale, AZ, technical writer, –62; Bendix, Ann Arbor, MI, ; Motorola, Phoenix, AZ, –65; McDonnell-Douglas, Santa Monica, CA, technical writer, –69; freelance writer, –67, –. Military service: U.S. Army Air Forces, –43, aviation cadet.
MEMBER: Authors Guild, Authors League of America, Society of Technical Writers and Editors, Burroughs Bibliophiles, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
AWARDS, HONORS: Hugo Award, World Science Fiction Convention, , for best new writer in the sc
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| 29 Jun The antholgy The Ultimate Dracula, edited by Byron Preiss, was translated in Chinese and published on Taiwan. Released in and in by YueSheng Culture Publishing, in a trade paperback With the title as &#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#; : &#;&#;&#;&#;&#; /. This anthology contains Farmer's short story "Nobody's Perfect". I could hardly find any online information about the book, and especially not about its contents. So I translated the original US title, "Nobody's Perfect", via Google into Chinese as "&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;". I have no idea if this is used with the printed book. | |||||||
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| 28 Jun Farmer's novel The Gate of Time was first published in It was restored and revised for publication in , as Two Hawks from Earth.
Farmer wrote a brief foreword with the new publication: «This novel was first published in and then in (actually ) as The Gate of Time. That was not my title. I have no idea why the editors changed it, since this is not a time travel tale, and their title certainly was misleading. So I have restored the original, Two Hawks Fro Entry updated 13 January Tagged: Author. () US author whose active career extended over half a century, though he was a comparatively late starter as an author, and his first story, "O'Brien and Obrenov" for Adventure in March , was nonfantastic and promised little. A part-time student at Bradley University, he gained a BA in English in , and two years later burst onto the sf scene with his novella The Lovers (August Startling; exp ; rev ). Although originally rejected by John W Campbell Jr of Astounding Science-Fiction and H L Gold of Galaxy Science Fiction, it gained instant acclaim when it did appear, and won Farmer a Hugo for Most Promising New Author. It concerned Xenobiology, Parasitism and Sex, an explosive mixture, certainly for the Genre SF of that era; transgressive mixtures of this sort would feature repeatedly in Farmer's best work. After publishing such excellent short stories as "Sail On! Sail On!" (December Startling) (see Flat Earth) and "Mother" (April Thrilling Wonder), Farmer became a full-time writer. His second short novel, A Woman a Day (June Startling as "Moth and Rust"; rev ; vt The Day of Timestop; vt Timestop!), was billed as a seq
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