Philip Jose Farmer

//Philip Jose Farmer
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  • Medium is a heart-warming machine, designed to provide a connection with the dead.  Now all the world could reach their loved ones - at a price. Anything so emotionally loaded and carrying that kind of price tag could be a powerful political weapon. But no-one, not even the inventor, could guess at how terrible that price might become. Cover art by Peter Jones.
  • 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/    
  • The Cold War Corps was to be the instrument of salvation in freeing the Earth from the tyranny of the Haijac Union. It was Dr. Leif Barker's idea, but he was getting kept in the dark by his bosses in the March Republic about what the CWC was actually doing. Its network of spies spread throughout the world, working towards the Ultimate Solution that would free the Jacks and turn them towards the True Religion. But Barker had suspicions. Which was freedom, which was tyranny? Which of the two super-powers was really the villain of this terrifying tomorrow? In  a mad world where love was a sin and sex a crime against humanity, he had to find out quickly - before the day of Timestop! Previously released as A  Woman A Day and The Day Of Timestop.
  • Book V of Riverworld. Thirty-five billion people from throughout Earth's history were resurrected along the great and winding waterways of Riverworld. Most began life anew - accepting without question the sustenance provided by their mysterious benefactors. But a rebellious handful burned to confront the unseen masters who controlled their fate--and these few launched an invasion that would ultimately yield the mind-boggling truth. Now Riverworld's omnipotent leaders have been confronted, and the renegades of Riverworld--led by the intrepid Sir Richard Francis Burton--control the fantastic mechanism that once ruled them. But the most awesome challenge lies ahead. For in the vast corridors and secret rooms of the tower stronghold, an unknown enemy watches and waits to usurp the usurpers...Cover art by Richard Clifton-Dey.
  • Book II of Khokarsa. Opar - the Atlantean colony in the heart of Tarzan's Africa; in the words of Edgar Rice Burroughs, a hidden city of  'gold and silver, ivory and apes, and peacocks.' And -  the starting point of this story,  twelve thousand years ago, when Africa had in inland sea and a high civilization bloomed along its forgotten shores, when lost empires flew their time-vanished banners, and deeds of daring were commonplace. Hadon, son of ancient Opar, whose claim of the throne launches him on a dangerous adventure. Cover art by Julek Heller. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/flight-opar-philip-jose-farmer/
  • Book V in World of Tiers. The lavalite world is a world of slow yet constant change.  Here, mountains rise from plains or sink into rifts; new oceans form as vast hollows collapse and seas rush in.  There is only one escape from this world  - the gateway to other universes is in the palace of the Lord Urthona.  Paul Janus Finnegan - also known as  Kickaha - must reach it if he is to survive.  And he must do so despite Urthona, Red Orc, the hired thug McKay, flesh-eating vegetation that's on the move and planetary pseudopods. Cover art by Boris Vallejo.
  • Book III of A World Of Tiers.  A world of tiers and layers - the Amerind level, the Garden of Eden level, the Talanac, the Atlantean...A universe of green skies and fabled beasts. It was the playground-cosmos of the Lord Jadawin, with transgravitational gates to the other levels and the other worlds. But now those gates were being sabotaged to permit the entry of an invading force of 'Bellers' - human bodies housing the transferred minds of rebel Lords and their minions, who sought two things: total domination of every Lo9rd's private Cosmos - now that they had achieved immortality; and the life of Kickaha the Trickster, who knew too much...Cover art by Melvyn Grant.