Philip Jose Farmer's Basement
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NOVELS BEGUN:
The first four items on the list are very tantalizing but sadly unfulfilling because they were never completed! They are
the first three to five chapters of proposed novels with outlines of the remaining chapters. This is how Farmer, and most
authors, submit story ideas to publishers. The letters included with THE CITY BEYOND PLAY, date it at 1970. I don’t know when the other stories were begun.
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THE EVIL IN PEMBERLY HOUSE by Abbey Tarnhelm: First four chapters 24p - entire story outline 12p - typed notes 5p - hand written notes 3p
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Of the four incomplete novels available here, this one is the most exciting for several reasons. First these first 24 pages are a pleasure to read, the story just pulls you along. Second, the story has major Wold Newtonian implications. The main character, Patricia Wildman, born in 1950 is the daughter of a brilliant doctor and criminologist who had a "college" for treating criminals in upstate New York. If that doesn't get you excited you can turn in your Wold Newton Scholar certificate at the door. After losing her parents and being widowed she inherits an estate in England and travels there to take it over and start life anew. The estate is Pemberly House from Jane Austen’s works, which of course figures large in Phil's Wold Newton bios, and which Watson had called "Holdernesse Hall." Thirdly, and most amazingly, this story is erotic.
COPIES are available for $70.00
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COUGAR BY THE TAIL: First five chapters 42p - rest of the story outline 28p
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Yes, Philip Jose Farmer started to write a Western! I have never read a Western novel
but I have to guess that most are not like this. The start of this book shows how brutal
and cheap life was back then. With killers, whores and politicians this is not your
father’s Western.
I thought this was a very good read and even had a sense of humor, a shame it was never
finished.
COPIES are available for $70.00
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THE FUR CLAD CAMERA: First three chapters 116p - rest of the story outline 3p
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This story is hard to describe. It is about a loner whose life is suddenly turned upside-
down by a smelly bum who claims to have saved his life in Vietnam. The bum always
seems to do the evil thing that the loner would like to do but never would. I can’t really
say much more without giving too much away.
COPIES are available for $70.00
COMPLETE UNPUBLISHED NOVEL:
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UP FROM THE BOTTOMLESS PIT
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Farmer wrote this book for Ballantine but they did not like it. He made some changes and they
still did not want it so he gave up and wrote DARK IS THE SUN, which they promptly bought. I
read the book in one sitting and loved it. It is not really scifi except that it is set in the
near future. The story is about a run away off-shore oil well and a huge ecological disaster.
Three pages are missing from the manuscript (101, 279 and 291) but I have recreated them from an
earlier working version of the ms. The book was written in 1978 and 1979 and is slightly dated in
some places but that does not detract from the enjoyment of reading this long lost novel. The
manuscript is 311 pages long. The last 19 pages were oringinally numbered 264-286 (with a gap between
270 and 275). These last 19 pages were the first draft and are covered with penciled corrections.
The cover page of the manuscript has a note written by Farmer dated August 21, 1986 which states that
he has given up on the story.
COPIES are available for
$125.00
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