Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip José Farmer

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Farmerphile is a quarterly magazine completely dedicated to works by and about Philip José Farmer. It features the unpublished novel UP FROM THE BOTTOMLESS PIT, a suspense-thriller about the ultimate disaster in the oil industry, serialized over the first ten issues. These ten issues will also include other unpublished stories, speeches and letters by Farmer himself, as well as articles about the Grand Master and his work from his fans and peers. Farmerphile is fabulously illustrated by such talented artists as Jason Robert Bell, Charles Berlin, Keith Howell, Karl Kauffman and Shannon Robicheaux.

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Issue No. 1 - July 2005
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48 pages (5.5 x 8.5 inches)
$11 (includes shipping in the US and Canada)

Table of contents:

The Roller Coaster Ride with Phil Farmer
- by Bette Farmer

The Face that Launched a Thousand Eggs
- by Philip José Farmer
--- illustrated by Charles Berlin

Creative Mythography
- by Win Scott Eckert

Bibliophile
- by Paul Spiteri

Daring to be Farmer
- by Joe Haldeman

Up from the Bottomless Pit (part 1)
- by Philip José Farmer
--- illustrated by Keith Howell


Cover art by Keith Howell.



Issue No. 2 - October 2005
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48 pages (5.5 x 8.5 inches)
$11 (includes shipping in the US and Canada)

Table of contents:

Gatherings of Ticksters
- by Bette Farmer

Who Stole Stonhenge?
- by Philip José Farmer … and you?

Farmer & Rosny—Kindred Souls
- by Jean-Marc Lofficier

The Unnaturals
- by Philip José Farmer
--- illustrated by Karl Kauffman

The Innocent Dilemma
- by Christopher Paul Carey

My Feast Unknown
- by Jason Robert Bell

Bibliophile
- by Paul Spiteri

Creative Mythography
- by Win Scott Eckert

Up from the Bottomless Pit (part 2)
- by Philip José Farmer
--- illustrated by Keith Howell


Cover art by Karl Kauffman.



Issue No. 3 - January 2006
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52 pages (5.5 x 8.5 inches)
$11 (includes shipping in the US and Canada)

Table of contents:

A Man Bigger Than His Works
- by Tracy Knight

The Roller Coaster Ride with Phil Farmer
- by Bette Farmer

That Great Spanish Author, Ernesto
- by Philip José Farmer
--- illustrated by Charles Berlin

Farmerphile Interviews Chris Roberson and Win Scott Eckert

Creative Mythography
- by Win Scott Eckert

Bibliophile
- by Christopher Paul Carey

I Still Live!
- a speech by Philip José Farmer
--- illustrated by Charles Berlin

Essex House, Tarzan and Time’s Last Gift
- by Bob Zeuschner

How Tarzan Introduced Me to Philip José Farmer
- by Rick Beaulieu

The Peerless Pastiche Farmer Does Doyle and Burroughs
- by Archimedes Q. Porter, Ph. D.

Up from the Bottomless Pit (part 3)
- by Philip José Farmer
--- illustrated by Keith Howell

Cover art by Charles Berlin.



Issue No. 4 - April 2006
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52 pages (5.5 x 8.5 inches)
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Table of contents:

On a Riverboat with the Farmers
- by Gary K. Wolfe

Hayy ibn Yaqzam: An Arabic Mowgli
- by Philip José Farmer
--- illustrated by Keith Howell

Why Do I Write?
- a speech by Philip José Farmer
--- illustrated by Keith Howell

The Roller Coaster Ride with Phil Farmer
- by Bette Farmer

Bibliophile
- by Paul Spiteri

The Essence of the Poison
- by Philip José Farmer
--- illustrated by Charles Berlin

Phil Farmer Meets Roger Bacon at the Ends of the Earth
- by Danny Adams

Creative Mythography
- by Win Scott Eckert

Up from the Bottomless Pit (part 4)
- by Philip José Farmer
--- illustrated by Keith Howell

Cover art by Jason Robert Bell.



Issue No. 5 - July 2006
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52 pages (5.5 x 8.5 inches)
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Table of contents:

The Roller Coaster Ride with Phil Farmer
- by Bette Farmer

The Trickster Awakens
- by Tracy Knight

The Trout Letters
- by Philip José Farmer

Trout Fishing in Bermuda: Why and How
- by Roger Crombie

Bibliophile
- by Paul Spiteri

Hertiage of the Flaming God
- by Alan Hanson

The Doll Game
- by Philip José Farmer
--- illustrated by Charles Berlin

Alias Philip José Farmer
- by Danny Adams

Creative Mythography
- by Win Scott Eckert

Up from the Bottomless Pit (part 5)
- by Philip José Farmer
--- illustrated by Keith Howell

Cover art by Keith Howell.



Issue No. 6 - October 2006
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48 pages (5.5 x 8.5 inches)
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Table of contents:

The International Appeal of Philip José Farmer
- by Rias Nuninga

Bibliophile
- by Fender Tucker

Keep Your Mouth Shut
- by Philip José Farmer
--- illustrated by Jason Robert Bell

The Roller Coaster Ride with Phil Farmer
- by Bette Farmer

Caliban
- by Will Murray

A Box Within a Box
- by Danny Adams

Creative Mythography
- by Win Scott Eckert
---- Doc Savage Montage by Chuck Loridans

Through the Seventh Gate
- by Christopher Paul Carey

Up from the Bottomless Pit (part 6)
- by Philip José Farmer
--- illustrated by Keith Howell

Cover art by Charles Berlin.



Issue No. 7 - January 2007
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52 pages (5.5 x 8.5 inches)
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Table of contents:

Riverworld in Parody
- by Walt Liebscher

The Roller Coaster Ride with Phil Farmer
- by Bette Farmer

Excerpt from The City Beyond Play
- by Philip José Farmer & Danny Adams

Farmerphile Interviews Danny Adams and Philip José Farmer

The Frames
- by Philip José Farmer
--- illustrated by Charles Berlin

The Light-Hog Incident
- by Philip José Farmer

A Letter from Farmer
- by David Bischoff

Creative Mythography
- by Dennis E. Power

Bibliophile
- by Paul Spiteri

Up from the Bottomless Pit (part 7)
- by Philip José Farmer
--- illustrated by Keith Howell

Cover art by Shannon Robicheaux.



Issue No. 8 - April 2007
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52 pages (5.5 x 8.5 inches)
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Table of contents:

The Roller Coaster Ride with Phil Farmer
- by Bette Farmer

Finnegan’s Wage, or, Portrait of the Farmer as a Joycean Fan
- by Danny Adams

Phil & Bette Farmer, Jack London, a Wife and a Baby,
a Clean Well Lighted Hotel Room
- by Joe R. Lansdale

Creative Mythography
- by Win Scott Eckert
--- illustrated by Chuck Loridans

A Spy in the U.S. of Gonococcia
- by Philip José Farmer
--- illustrated by Charles Berlin

Images of the Soul
- by Dennis E. Power

Bibliophile
- by Michael Croteau

Up from the Bottomless Pit (part 8)
- by Philip José Farmer
--- illustrated by Keith Howell

Cover art by Keith Howell.



Issue No. 9 - July 2007
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56 pages (5.5 x 8.5 inches)
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Table of contents:

The Archaeology of Khokarsa
- by Christopher Paul Carey

White-Skinned Grey-Eyed God
- by Dennis E. Power

Sketches from the Ruins of My Mind
- by Robert R. Barrett

The Brueckel/Harwood Letter
- by Philip José Farmer

Bibliophile
- by Paul Spiteri

The Rebels Unthawed
- by Philip José Farmer
--- illustrated by Shannon Robicheaux

Star Trek’s Loss Is Your Gain
- by Danny Adams

Creative Mythography
- by Win Scott Eckert
--- illustrated by Chuck Loridans

Up from the Bottomless Pit (part 9)
- by Philip José Farmer
--- illustrated by Keith Howell

Cover art by Charles Berlin.



Issue No. 10 - October 2007
52 pages (5.5 x 8.5 inches)
$11 (includes shipping in the US and Canada)

Table of contents:

The Roller Coaster Ride with Phil Farmer
- by Bette Farmer

A Modest Proposal
- by Philip José Farmer

The Smartest Man in the World
- by Dr. Bennett L. Oppenheim, Ph.D

Creative Mythography
- by Win Scott Eckert

A Peoria Night
- by Philip José Farmer
--- illustrated by Charles Berlin

Farmercon II in Pictures

When Day Breaks the Stone God Awaits
- by Dennis E. Power

Remembering the Eyre Incident Three Decades Later
- by Danny Adams

Bibliophile
- by Paul Spiteri

Up from the Bottomless Pit (part 10)
- by Philip José Farmer
--- illustrated by Keith Howell

Cover art by Jason Robert Bell.



Issue No. 11 - January 2008
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56 pages (5.5 x 8.5 inches)
$11 (includes shipping in the US and Canada)

Table of contents:

The Roller Coaster Ride with Phil Farmer
- by Bette Farmer

Birthday Wishes and Greetings
- by S.M. Stirling, Mike Resnick, Michael Moorcock, James E. Gunn, Kim Newman, Norman Spinrad, Joe Haldeman, Piers Anthony, Richard A. Lupoff, Richard E. Geis, David Langford, Tracy Knight, Joe R. Lansdale, Harlan Ellison, Robin Wayne Bailey, Will Murray, Garth Nix, James Sallis, Gary K. Wolfe, Chris Roberson & Peter Crowther

White Whales, Raintrees, Flying Saucers
- by Philip José Farmer

Parables are Pablum
- by Tim Howller

Smoke Gets in Your Nose
- by Spider Robinson

The Magic Filing Cabinet and the Missing Page
- by Christopher Paul Carey

Further Sketches from the Ruins of My Mind!
- by Robert Barrett

The First Robot
- by Philip José Farmer
--- illustrated by Henry Covert

On Not Going There
- by Howard Waldrop

Creative Mythography
- by Win Scott Eckert

Bibliophile
- by Paul Spiteri

Duo Miaule
- by Philip José Farmer
--- illustrated by Charles Berlin

Cover art by Joey Van Massenhoven.



Issue No. 12 - April 2008
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56 pages (5.5 x 8.5 inches)
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Table of contents:

The Roller Coaster Ride with Phil Farmer
- by Bette Farmer

We Were Introduced by Sherlock Holmes
- by George Scheetz

Sherlock Holmes and Sufism
- by Philip José Farmer
--- illustrated by Charles Berlin

Philip José Farmer and The Case of the Two Jungle Lords
- by Dennis E. Power

Urania’s Babysitter
- by Rick Lai

A Study of Ralph von Wau Wau
- by Danny Adams

Creative Mythography
- by Win Scott Eckert

Bibliophile
- by Paul Spiteri

How Much Free Will Does a Pumpkin Have?
- by Christopher Paul Carey

Jongor in the Wold Newton Family
- by Philip José Farmer

The Lure of the Emergency Shelf
- by Michael Carroll

Full Blown Comic Book Images of the Beast
- by Steve Mattsson

Unpolished Pearls from the Magic Filing Cabinet

Three Metafictional Proposals
- by Philip José Farmer

Uncle Sam’s Mad Tea Party
- by Philip José Farmer

Down to Earth’s Centre
- by Philip José Farmer


Cover art by Keith Howell



Issue No. 13 - July 2008
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52 pages (5.5 x 8.5 inches)
$11 (includes shipping in the US and Canada)

Table of contents:

Farmerphile Interviews Christopher Paul Carey

Excerpt from The Song of Kwasin
- by Philip José Farmer & Christopher Paul Carey
--- illustrated by Keith Howell
--- map by Charles Berlin

Farmer of the Apes
- by Charles R. Saunders

Creative Mythography
- by Win Scott Eckert & Dennis E. Power

Escape from Loki Again, and Again, and Again
- by Steve Mattsson

The Wild Weird Clime
- by Philip José Farmer

To Be, or Not to Be
- by Tom Wode Bellman

Bibliophile
- by Heidi Ruby Miller

Unpolished Pearls from the Magic Filing Cabinet

Polytropical Paramyths
- by Philip José Farmer

Getting Ready to Write
- by Philip José Farmer & Paul Spiteri
--- illustrated by Charles Berlin


Cover art by Vladimir Verano




Issue No. 14 - October 2008
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60 pages (5.5 x 8.5 inches)
$11 (includes shipping in the US and Canada)

Table of contents:

This Played in Peoria?
- by Art Sippo

A Whale of a Time
- by Leo Queequeg Tincrowdor

Tongues of the Moon
- by Philip José Farmer
--- illustrated by John Streleckis

The Voice of Farmer in My Vermiform Appendix
- by Rhys Hughes

Creative Mythography
- by Win Scott Eckert

Farmerphile Interviews Win Scott Eckert

Excerpt from The Evil in Pemberley House
- by Philip José Farmer & Win Scott Eckert
--- illustrated by Keith Howell

Say, What's the Big Idea?
- by Michael Carroll

The Doc Ravage Presidential Campaign
- by Rick Lai

Bibliophile
- by Paul Spiteri

Boris the Bear: Wold Newton and Philip José Farmer
- by Steve Mattsson

Oh the Humanity
- by Dennis E. Power

Unpolished Pearls from the Magic Filing Cabinet

Greartheart Silver
- by Philip José Farmer

Doc Wildman's Coat of Arms
- by Philip José Farmer
--- illustrated by Keith Howell


Cover art by Charles Berlin




Issue No. 15 - January 2009
60 pages (5.5 x 8.5 inches)
$11 (includes shipping in the US and Canada)

Table of contents:

Excerpt from Cougar by the Tail
- by Philip José Farmer & Tracy Knight

Farmerphile Interviews Tracy Knight

The Time Distorter
- by Paul Spiteri
--- illustrated by Charles Berlin

Buddha Contemplates His Novel
- by Philip José Farmer

Creative Mythography
- by Win Scott Eckert

Bibliophile
- by David Lars Chamberlain

On the River with Philip José Farmer
- by Robert Weinberg

My Time on the River
- by Ed Gorman

Writing “Graceland”
- by Allen Steele

The River Not Taken
- by Dennis E. Power

The Resurrection of Tom Mix
- by Danny Adams


Unpolished Pearls from the Magic Filing Cabinet

Riverworld Dawn
- by Philip José Farmer

Myadzian Journal
- by Philip José Farmer

Time Has Its Mirages
- by Philip José Farmer


Cover art by Keith Howell