Philip José Farmer is legendary for having so many series running at the same time. During the mid seventies, while fans were waiting on the next Riverworld and World of Tiers books, a writer's block stopped him from writing about those worlds. He could only work with new ideas, or with other people's ideas, so he began a few more series; Opar, Paul Eyre, Greatheart Silver and the fictional authors and worked with those until he was able to return to what the fans were calling for.

The following links try to cover all material related to a series or subject, including scans of books and magazine covers.

The Sturch

Farmer's first science fiction story, The Lovers, was set in a future where the Church and State had combined into the Sturch...

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Father Carmody

One of Farmer's more interesting characters, Father John Carmody has several adventures throughout the 1950's and into the 1960's...

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World of Tiers

While Riverworld is Farmer's best known series, the World of Tiers novels have introduced more fans to Farmer than anything else...

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Harold Childe

In 1968 Farmer added to his reputation for mixing science fiction and sex. What Farmer came up with will blow your mind...

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Lord Grandrith / Doc Caliban

Yet another amazing idea from the imagination of Philip José Farmer. A FEAST UNKNOWN is his version of pulp heroes with sex drives...

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Riverworld

One of the greatest concepts in all of SF. Everyone who has ever lived on Earth is resurrected along the banks of a million mile long river...

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Dayworld

Earth is so over populated that people are only allow to live one day in seven. The other six days they are put in suspended animation or "stoned"...

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Khokarsa

Opar, the lost city from Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan novels, but reimagined against a greater civilization of Farmer's own creation...

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Fictional Authors

A series begun in the mid 1970's when Farmer had a writer's block that would not allow him to work on the books that his fans were waiting for...

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Ralph von Wau Wau

This series is an offshoot of the Fictional Author series that took on a life of its own when Ralph walked into Callahan's Place.

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Paul Eyre

The story of a man and the strange things that happen to him after his encounter with a space ship...

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Greatheart Silver

From WEIRD HEROS, a series of books that were trying to recapture the feeling of the pulp magazines of the 1930s and 1940s...

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