Philip Jose Farmer

//Philip Jose Farmer
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  • Book II of World Of Tiers. Imagine a whole series of separate universes, made to suit the whims of a race of super-beings. Imagine these universes with their own laws, cultures, creatures, and ecologies - all existing solely to please the fancies of their individual master. Then imagine one such universe constructed as a diabolical trap to destroy a single person - the man called Robert Wolff, one of the race of universe-makers, and once of Earth. When the satanic Master-Lord, Urizen, kidnap's Wolff's wife, he forces Wolff to enter the deadly universe of ambushes, filled with every kind of tortuous snare that the evil mind of the Master-Lord can devise. Wolff has only his courage and his wits with which to combat this cosmic maze - unless he can perform a miracle, he and Chryseis are doomed.
  • Death will come to me as to every man. But until that moment I will live as if I were the strongest of all living things... Book II of The Secrets Of The Nine: He is James Cloamby, Viscount Grandrith. The one and only. The white monkey of the jungle. Slayer of wild beasts and righter of wrongs. Last of the wild men. Lord of the trees. Pristine spirit of darkest Africa. Member of the House of Lords and one of the wealthiest men on the planet. Thirty thousand years ago, some Stone Age people discovered the elixir of life. Unless they met with disaster, they lived for centuries. Going back to his roots in the Gabon, the Lord of the Trees is rudely intercepted. A 1200-foot plunge into shark-infested seas and a bloody rendezvous with jungle mercenaries gives him a taste for adventure again - which is just as well. For the Lord of the Trees has fallen into the grip of the Nine, grim and ancient rulers who control the world from distant mansions...Cover art by Les Edwards.
  • Book II of Riverworld. A world of resurrection where every soul who ever lived is brought back to indefinite life - where death is a momentary inconvenience. A world of peace and the end of all fear? By no mean. Among the billions clawing through warfare, slavery and violent aggression is Sam Clemens, alias Mark Twain. Sam's dream is to build a Mississippi-style paddle wheeler ad to find the source of the River, resurrected Man's focus and Riverworld's artery. But even with the aid of one of the mysterious beings responsible for Riverworld and of Sam's Neanderthal blood-brother, he is hard put to bring his dream to life. There are others - King John, for example - who will stop at nothing to steal the Fabulous Riverboat...Cover art by Peter Jones.
  • Book III of Riverworld. Years have passed on Riverworld. Entire nations have risen, and savage wars have been fought - all since the dead of Earth found themselves resurrected in their magnificent new homeworld. Yet the truth about the Ethicals, the powerful engineers of this mysterious "afterlife," remains unknown. But a curious cross-section of humanity is determined to change that situation - at any cost. Intrepid explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton leads the most remarkable voyage of discovery he has ever undertaken. Hot on his heels are Samuel Clemens, King John of England, and Cyrano de Bergerac. Spurred by the promise of ultimate answers, they chart a course across the vast polar sea - and toward the awesome tower that looms above it. But getting there will be more than half the battle. For death on Riverworld has become chillingly final... Cover art by Joe Petagno.
  • Book IV of Riverworld. After 33 years on the River, Clemens and his crew are finally near the end of their journey in the great iron riverboat Not For Hire, and only one obstacle remains: the evil Earthly king, John Lackland. John is waiting just upriver in the Rex Grandissimus the first riverboat constructed by Sam and stolen by John Lackland. Each are hell-bent on sinking the other and complicating the probable battle is that both boats carry Ethicals, members of the group of advanced beings who created Riverworld for reasons unknown. The battle is set to take place along the shores populated by members of the Church of the Second Chance, a group that believes they must attain ethical perfection in order to proceed to the next phase of existence. The Second Chancers are not violent, but their charismatic leader, La Viro, may attempt to sink one or both of the iron ships in order to prevent the battle. Among the Second Chancers is former Nazi officer Hermann Goring, who has already been more than a nuisance to those on the Quest to find the source of the River...Cover art by Melvyn Grant.
  • Book I of Philip José Farmer's The Dungeon. Plunging into a planet-sized prison, Clive Follot faces a fantastic world of dwarves, cyborgs and aliens unlike anything he has ever imagined. It is a multi-level collection of beings from the hidden folds of time and space. Trapped somewhere inside is Neville Follott, Clive's twin brother, and no creature in the Dungeon will stop Clive from finding him. Cover art by Robert Gould.

  • Book IV of World Of Tiers.  Behind the walls of Terra lay a secret no man could be allowed to learn. But Kickaha - the Earth-born adventurer of the tiered worlds - had to uncover that secret or watch his home world destroyed. Kickaha was returning to Earth from the World of Tiers, the many-levelled universe of the god-like Lords, that he had entered many years ago as Paul Janus Finnegan. Now he had returned to a world he no longer knew, to find it ruled by Red Orc, a Lord jealous of his personal domain and hostile to intruders. Yet Kickaha had to stay alive in order to defeat the deadly enemy that threatened Earth and the other worlds of tiers  - the 'Beller', the malignant creature that was the mind-essence of a rebel Lord. Cover art by Melvyn Grant.
  • The Lavalite World is a world of slow and constant change. The very landscape moves. Here, mountains rise from plains or sink into seas.  New oceans form as vast hollows collapse and seas rush in. There is only one escape from this bizarre planet: a single gateway to other universes which is in the palace of Lord Urthona. Paul Janus Finnegan - also known as Kickaha - must reach it if he is going to survive. And he must do it despite the Lords Urthona and Red Orc, the hired thug McKay, flesh eating vegetation on the run, assorted strange beasts of prey AND planetary pseudopods. Cover art by Fred Gambino.
  • Riverworld. To millions of readers it is as familiar as Earth - this awesome planet where all humanity that ever lived, all 36 billion of us, from Tom Mix to Joan of Arc, are simultaneously reincarnated along the banks of a million-mile river...Also in this volume: J.C. on the Dude Ranch; The Volcano; The Henry Miller Dawn Patrol; The Problem of the Sore Bridge - Among Others; Brass And Gold (or Horse And Zeppelin In Beverly Hills); The Jungle Rot Kid On The Nod; The Voice Of The Sonar in My Vermiform Appendix ; Monolog; The Leaser Of Two Evils; The Phantom of the Sewers. N.B. This is the first appearance of J.C. On The Dude Ranch. DVD: Tahmoh Penikett, Laura Vandervoo: preloved; very good condition; all regions. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/the-fabulous-riverboat-philip-jose-farmer/   https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/gods-of-riverworld-philip-jos-farmer/ https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/the-dark-design-philip-jose-farmer/ https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/magic-labyrinth-philip-jose-farmer/