# Philip José Farmer bibliography

In a writing career spanning more than 60 years (1946–2008), American science fiction and fantasy author Philip José Farmer published almost 60 novels, over 100 short stories and novellas (many expanded or combined into novels), two "fictional biographies", and numerous essays, articles and ephemera in fan publications.

## Novel series
### World of Tiers

Original publications:
* The Maker of Universes (1965, ISBN 0-441-51627-0)
* The Gates of Creation (1966, ISBN 0-312-85761-6)
* A Private Cosmos (1968, ISBN 0-411-67953-8)
* Behind the Walls of Terra (1970, ISBN 0-312-86377-2)
* The Lavalite World (1977, ISBN 0-89968-401-7) Red Orc's Rage (1991, ISBN 0-8125-0890-4) series-related, but not in the main sequence.
* More Than Fire (1993, ISBN 0-8125-1959-0)
Later compilations:
* The World of Tiers Volume One (SFBC, 1991, inc Vols 1–2)
* The World of Tiers Volume Two (SFBC, 1991, inc Vols 3–5)
* World of Tiers 1 (Sphere, 1986, inc Vols 1–3)
* World of Tiers 2 (Sphere, 1986, inc Vols 4–5)
* The World of Tiers (Tor, 1996, ISBN 0-312-85761-6, inc Vols 1–3)
* The World of Tiers, Volume Two (Tor, 1997, ISBN 0-312-86377-2, inc Vols 4–6)

### Herald Childe

* Image of the Beast (1968, ISBN 1-902197-24-0) an erotic novel.
* Blown: or Sketches Among the Ruins of My Mind (1969, ISBN 0-586-06211-4) an erotic novel.
* [The third book in the series was never published, but it can be inferred that Herald Childe became amnesiac in it.]
* Traitor to the Living (1973, ISBN 0-345-23613-0) non-erotic novel featuring Herald Childe.
   * Image of the Beast (Playboy, 1979) (omnibus edition of Image of the Beast and Blown)

### Secrets of the Nine

Lord Grandrith (inspired by Tarzan) and Doc Caliban (inspired by Doc Savage) as half-brothers involved in a world-ruling conspiracy.
* A Feast Unknown (1969, ISBN 0-87216-586-8)
* Lord of the Trees / The Mad Goblin (1970, dos-a-dos Ace Double, ISBN 0-441-49252-5
* The Empire of the Nine (Sphere, 1988) Omnibus reprint of the Ace Double with The Mad Goblin retitled as Keepers of the Secrets.

### Riverworld

("Shared Universe" Riverworld works by other authors not included.)

#### Novels

* To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971, ISBN 0-345-41967-7)
* The Fabulous Riverboat (1971, ISBN 0-345-41968-5)
* The Dark Design (1977, ISBN 0-345-41969-3)
* The Magic Labyrinth (1980, ISBN 0-89370-258-7)
* Gods of Riverworld (1983, ISBN 0-345-41971-5)
* River of Eternity (Riverworld variant) (1983, ISBN 0-932096-28-X)

#### Novelette

* "Riverworld" (1966; Worlds of Tomorrow, January issue)
** Slightly expanded version included in "Down in the Black Gang" (1971) ISBN 0-451-04805-9
** Expanded (final) version included in Riverworld and Other Stories (1979)

#### Short stories

* "Crossing the Dark River" (1992)
* "A Hole in Hell" (1992; as by "Dane Helstrom", but by Farmer)
* "Up the Bright River" (1993)
* "Coda" (1993)

### Tarzan-related

* Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke (1972, ISBN 0-87216-876-X) A fictional biography which collects—and expands upon—magazine articles by Farmer: "The Arms of Tarzan" (1971), "Tarzan's Coat of Arms" (1971), "Tarzan Lives" (1972), "The Great Korak-Time Discrepancy" (1972), "An Exclusive Interview with Lord Greystoke" (1973 extract), "Extracts from the Memoirs of 'Lord Greystoke'" (1974 extract)
* Time's Last Gift (1972, ISBN 0-8125-1440-8) A novel in which a future Tarzan (using the name John Gribardsun) orchestrates time-travel research allowing him to travel to 12,000 BC.
* The Adventure of the Peerless Peer (1974, ISBN 0-915230-06-2) Tarzan meets Sherlock Holmes, as supposedly authored by John H. Watson.
** Reissued by Titan Books in 2011 (ISBN 0-85768-120-6) as part of The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series. It has the abbreviated title of The Peerless Peer.
** Rewritten as "The Adventure of the Three Madmen"—with Mowgli replacing Tarzan—in The Grand Adventure collection (1984)
* The Dark Heart of Time: A Tarzan Novel (1999, ISBN 0-345-42463-8) Authorized by the ERB estate. The antagonist is an American millionaire seeking the secret of Tarzan's immortality.
** Tarzan and the Dark Heart of Time (2018 hardcover reprint)

#### Khokarsa

The Khokarsa series, set circa 10,000 BC with the John Gribardsun version of Tarzan (from Time's Last Gift) as a supporting character using the name Sahhindar.
* Hadon of Ancient Opar (1974, ISBN 0-87997-637-3)
* Flight to Opar (1976, ISBN 0-87997-718-3)
* The Song of Kwasin (coauthored with Christopher Paul Carey), published in Gods of Opar: Tales of Lost Khokarsa omnibus (below).
* Gods of Opar: Tales of Lost Khokarsa, omnibus of Hadon of Ancient Opar, Flight to Opar, and The Song of Kwasin (2012) ISBN 978-1-59606-471-3.
* "Kwasin and the Bear God" (20,000-word novella coauthored with Christopher Paul Carey)

### Doc Savage

* Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life (1973, ISBN 0-385-08488-9), a fictional biography
* Escape From Loki (1991, ISBN 0-553-29093-2), a novel

### Dayworld

* Dayworld (1985, ISBN 0-399-12967-7)
* Dayworld Rebel (1987, ISBN 0-441-14002-5)
* Dayworld Breakup (1990, ISBN 0-8125-0889-0)

## Other novels

* The Green Odyssey (1957) ISBN 1-4344-8494-7
* Flesh (1960) ISBN 0-85391-126-6 (expanded 1967, Doubleday)
* A Woman a Day (also as The Day of Timestop; 1960) ISBN 0-425-04526-9 (expanded from 1953 novella, Moth and Rust) (connected to The Lovers)
* The Lovers (1961) ISBN 0-345-28691-X (expanded from the 1952 novella) (revised 1977)
* Cache from Outer Space (1962)
* Fire and the Night (1962)
* Inside Outside (1964) ISBN 0-425-04041-0
* Tongues of the Moon (1964) ISBN 0-515-04595-0 (expanded from the 1961 novella)
* Dare (1965) ISBN 1-60010-438-X
* The Gate of Time (1966), revised and expanded as Two Hawks from Earth (1979) ISBN 0-7043-1171-2
* Night of Light (1966) ISBN 0-425-02249-8
* Lord Tyger (1970) ISBN 0-451-05096-7
* Love Song (1970)
* The Stone God Awakens (1970) ISBN 0-441-78654-5
* The Wind Whales of Ishmael (1971) ISBN 0-441-89240-X
* The Other Log of Phileas Fogg (1973) ISBN 0-8125-2468-3
* Venus on the Half-Shell (1975) (writing as Kilgore Trout) ISBN 0-440-36149-4
* Ironcastle (1976) (translation/expansion of work by J.-H. Rosny) ISBN 0-87997-545-8
* Jesus on Mars (1979) ISBN 0-523-40184-1
* Dark Is the Sun (1979) ISBN 0-345-33956-8
* The Unreasoning Mask (1981) ISBN 1-58567-715-9
* Stations of the Nightmare (1982) ISBN 0-8125-3773-4
* Greatheart Silver (1982) ISBN 0-523-48535-2
* A Barnstormer in Oz (1982) ISBN 0-425-06274-0
* Nothing Burns in Hell (1998) ISBN 0-312-86470-1
* Up From the Bottomless Pit, published in ten parts in Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip José Farmer (2005–2007) ISBN 1-59606-128-6
Co-authored novels:
* The Caterpillar's Question (1992) (with Piers Anthony) ISBN 0-441-00213-7
* Naked Came The Farmer (1998) (with Nancy Atherton, Terry Bibo, Steven Burgauer, Dorothy Cannell, David Everson, Joseph Flynn, Julie Kistler, Jerry Klein, Bill Knight, Tracy Knight, Garry Moore and Joel Steinfeldt) ISBN 0-9624613-7-7
* The City Beyond Play, coauthored with Danny Adams (2007) ISBN 1-905834-24-1
* The Evil in Pemberley House, coauthored with Win Scott Eckert (2009), featuring the daughter of "Doc Savage" ISBN 1-59606-249-5
* Dayworld: A Hole in Wednesday, coauthored with Danny Adams (2016), Dayworld trilogy prequel ISBN 1-94542-701-9

## Story collections

* Strange Relations (1960) (collects "Mother", "Daughter", "Father", "Son", "My Sister's Brother") ISBN 1-4165-0934-8
* The Alley God (1962) ISBN 0-283-48417-9
* The Celestial Blueprint: And Other Stories (1962)
* Down in the Black Gang (1971) ISBN 0-451-04805-9
* The Book of Philip José Farmer, or the Wares of Simple Simon's Custard Pie and Space Man (1973) ISBN 0-86007-958-9
* Riverworld and Other Stories (1979) ISBN 0-425-06487-5
* Riverworld War: The Suppressed Fiction of Philip José Farmer (1980) (includes a condensed version of Jesus on Mars and several chapters cut from The Magic Labyrinth before publication)
* The Cache (1981) ISBN 0-8125-3755-6 (collection of Cache from Outer Space (1962) plus shorts)
* Father to the Stars (1981) ISBN 0-523-48504-2
* The Purple Book (1982) ISBN 0-523-48529-8
* The Classic Philip José Farmer, 1952–1964 (1984) (edited by Martin H Greenberg) ISBN 0-517-55193-4
* The Classic Philip José Farmer, 1964–1973 (1984) ISBN 0-517-55545-X
* The Grand Adventure (1984) (includes The Adventure of the Three Madmen) ISBN 0-425-07211-8
* Riders of the Purple Wage (1992) ISBN 0-8125-1905-1
* Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe (2005) (edited by Win Scott Eckert) ISBN 1-932265-14-7
* The Best of Philip José Farmer (2006) ISBN 1-59606-036-0
* Strange Relations (2006) (omnibus of The Lovers, Flesh, and the collection Strange Relations [1960]) ISBN 1-4165-5526-9
* Pearls from Peoria (2006) ISBN 1-59606-059-X
* Up from the Bottomless Pit and Other Stories (2007) ISBN 1-59606-128-6
* Venus on the Half-Shell and Others (2008) includes novels Venus on the Half-Shell and The Adventure of the Peerless Peer plus other stories written as by fictional characters ISBN 1-59606-142-1

### Posthumous reprints

* The Other in the Mirror (2009) (omnibus of Fire & The Night, Jesus on Mars, Night of Light) ISBN 1-59606-231-2
* The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 1: Protean Dimensions (2010) ISBN 0-615-37005-5
* Up the Bright River (2010), ed. by Gary K. Wolfe. ISBN 1-59606-329-7
* The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 2: Of Dust and Soul (2011) ISBN 0-9837461-0-9
* The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 3: Portraits of a Trickster (2012) ISBN 0-9837461-1-7
* Tales of the Wold Newton Universe (2013) ISBN 1-78116-304-9

## Anthologies edited by Farmer

* Mother Was A Lovely Beast: A Feral Man Anthology, Fiction And Fact About Humans Raised By Animals (1974) ISBN 0-8019-5964-0
* Tales of Riverworld (1992) ISBN 0-446-36269-7
* Quest to Riverworld (1993) with uncredited co-editors Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg, and Edward E. Kramer ISBN 0-446-36270-0