<div>Harlan Ellison, Richard Christian Matheson, Connie Willis, and many more contribute to a compelling psychological exploration of the many shades of love An incubus disguised as a high school girl puts a disturbing spin on the teacher/student fantasy. An engineer creates a robot with unexpected consequences during the end of the world. A man becomes the pet of alien invaders. From stories of aliens in other worlds to those living among us, these tales will move you out of your comfort zone and open you up to experiencing something&mdash;or someone&mdash;completely different. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Ellen Datlow, including rare photos from the editor&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Alien Sex

<div>Three stories of a world shared by resurrected humans from all times and places&mdash;plus ten more tales by the Hugo Award&ndash;winning author of the World of Tiers series. On author Philip Jos&eacute; Farmer&rsquo;s Riverworld, humans from every era and culture have been simultaneously resurrected. Ancient Hebrews, medieval warriors, Spanish Inquisitors, and modern Americans intermingle in this strange new environment, but many still cling to old prejudices. Tom Mix, a silent-film star originally from early-twentieth-century Earth, is journeying among the vast population along the millions of miles of the River, in search of familiar faces from his own time. He&rsquo;s been traveling the River for five years and believes people are starting to change. But when he&rsquo;s entangled in a brutal clash between states, he discovers that some are slow to let go of the ideas that ruled them on Earth. This volume includes the novelette &ldquo;Riverworld,&rdquo; along with two additional Riverworld tales and ten other short stories, all strange, clever, and profound. Farmer&rsquo;s explorations of the wonderful and bizarre&mdash;from a portrayal of Jesus and Satan as cowpokes to a reimagining of Edgar Rice Burroughs&rsquo;s Tarzan in the style of William Burroughs&mdash;plunge the reader into &ldquo;one of the most imaginative worlds in science fiction&rdquo; (Booklist). This ebook includes&ldquo;Riverworld,&rdquo; &ldquo;J. C. on the Dude Ranch,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Volcano,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Henry Miller Dawn Patrol,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Problem of Sore Bridge&mdash;Among Others,&rdquo; &ldquo;Brass and Gold (or Horse and Zeppelin in Beverly Hills),&rdquo; &ldquo;The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Voice of the Sonar in My Vermiform Appendix,&rdquo; &ldquo;Monolog,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Leaser of Two Evils,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Phantom of the Sewers,&rdquo; &ldquo;Up the Bright River,&rdquo; &ldquo;Crossing the Dark River,&rdquo; and Philip JosFarmer&rsquo;s article on the making of Riverworld, &ldquo;The Source of the River.&rdquo; </div>

Riverworld and Other Stories

<div>From a multiple Hugo Award winner: Four more novels in a brilliantly imaginative series. In the second half of the World of Tiers series, Kickaha embarks on a journey to the eternally shifting landscape of the Lavalite World of Lord Urthona&mdash;and the ultimate clash with his arch nemesis. On Earth, Kickaha and the Lord Anana pursue a rogue Beller called Thabuuz. They thought they had wiped out the last of the biolab-generated artificial intelligences created by the Lords, but it seems one has escaped through a portal to Southern California. Thabuuz must be found before he can spawn more Bellers and revive their war against the Lords. But even though he came from Earth fifty years ago, Kickaha no longer recognizes his former home, now ruled by a hostile Lord known as the Red Orc. Leaving an unwelcoming Earth, Kickaha is trapped on the strange planet he thinks of as Lavalite World, and the only way out is a single gate, located inside Urthona&rsquo;s palace. But the stronghold moves as readily as the dangerous terrain, making survival an unlikely prospect. After facing harrowing challenges and finally returning home to the World of Tiers, Kickaha is led into one last trap. He&rsquo;ll have to confront the fearsome enemy who has been hunting him all along&mdash;and the fate of the pocket universes lies in the balance. This omnibus contains the author&rsquo;s preferred text of the novels Behind the Walls of Terra and Lavalite World, reprinted from the limited edition volumes published by Phantasia Press. </div>

The World of Tiers Volume Two

<div>From the Hugo Award&ndash;winning author of Riverworld: The conclusion of the trilogy set on a future Earth where freedom is threatened by an insidious lie. Before the dawn of the New Era, the world was divided into nations with separate governments that engaged in wars, and populations ravaged by poverty, starvation, and disease. After a final bloody conflict, a single government emerged and took drastic measures to control the dangerous overpopulation in the Organic Commonwealth of Earth: Each citizen is &ldquo;stoned&rdquo; in suspended animation for six days each week and closely monitored at all times. Thus, resources are plentiful, and there&rsquo;s peace and prosperity&mdash;or is there? It seems the World Council has been lying. Now, rebel daybreaker Jeff Caird and Panthea Snick, formerly of the organic police force, must risk their lives to expose the truth about the corrupt government and rally the citizens of Earth to rise up against the powers that are robbing them of their freedom&mdash;and their lives. But what will become of Jeff and his multiple identities as the struggle draws to a close? The breathtaking finale in the Dayworld Trilogy reveals the truth about the perverse government of Earth in the New Era, and the ramifications of its fall, along with a deeper understanding of the man who dares to challenge it. </div>

Dayworld Breakup

<div>A daybreaker rebels on an overpopulated planet in this dystopian adventure by the author of the World of Tiers series. Jeff Caird was once a daybreaker: a criminal who avoided government-required suspended animation by living seven different identities. Now he goes by the name William St.-George Duncan, and he&rsquo;s suppressed the memory of his past, and even his real identity, in order to avoid harsh punishment by the government of the Organic Commonwealth of Earth. But the danger is far from over, and the authorities continue to hunt him&mdash;because among the things he&rsquo;s forgotten there&rsquo;s something very important . . . In the wilderness of northern New Jersey, Dunc has fallen in with a group of rebel daybreakers. As he struggles to retrieve the memory that&rsquo;s so valuable&mdash;and dangerous&mdash;to the government, he learns from his new allies that there&rsquo;s a larger movement to break free from the control of the corrupt World Council that limits citizens to one day of consciousness per week. And the knowledge buried deep within him may be the key to their success. Hugo award&ndash;winning Science Fiction Grand Master Philip Jos&eacute; Farmer returns to the Dayworld universe for the second installment of his richly imagined trilogy, in which Earth&rsquo;s overpopulation has led to the most stringent government restrictions on personal freedom imaginable. </div>

Dayworld Rebel

<div>The first three adventures set in the amazing realm created by the Hugo Award&ndash;winning author of Riverworld and &ldquo;an excellent science fiction writer&rdquo; (Isaac Asimov). His past a mystery and his present unbearably mundane, Robert Wolff is simply trying to buy a new house in Arizona when he stumbles upon a secret doorway through space and time and enters the World of Tiers. Made up of ascending levels of jungles, plains, medieval cities, and, at the top, a Garden of Eden, and populated by fantastical creatures, from nymphs and centaurs to merpeople and strange amalgams nonexistent on Earth, it&rsquo;s beyond anything Wolff could have imagined in his previous humdrum existence. And when his youth is restored in the bargain, it seems he&rsquo;s truly found paradise. But there are dark forces in this new world, and Wolff is plunged into an epic quest up through the tiers, accompanied by Paul Janus Finnegan, another earthling, now known as Kickaha. Wolff&rsquo;s journey to find Jadawin, the Lord of this world, will lead to answers about his own identity&mdash;and determine his fate. Wolff and Kickaha will face off against feuding Lords&mdash;who hold the power to control private worlds of their own design&mdash;and the depraved Bellers. Devices originally created in the biolabs of the Lords, the Bellers are now conscious entities waging war on the Lords and their &ldquo;pocket universes.&rdquo; As they infiltrate the bodies of creatures throughout the World of Tiers and hunt down the Earth-born, the survival of all the worlds hinges upon the battle between the strangers from Earth and enemies disguised as their allies. This omnibus contains the author&rsquo;s preferred text, reprinted from the limited edition volumes published by Phantasia Press. </div>

The World of Tiers Volume One

<div>&ldquo;Every bit as appealing as the Riverworld saga,&rdquo; this brilliant high-concept dystopian novel features an overpopulated Earth under strict government control (Booklist). Only by being watched may you become free. It&rsquo;s 3414 AD, the rise of the New Era, and Earth has become massively overpopulated. The worldwide government has recently implemented a system that allows human civilization to continue: Each person lives only one day a week. For the other six he or she is &ldquo;stoned&rdquo;&mdash;placed in suspended animation. To keep everyone to their particular day, the activities of all citizens of the Organic Commonwealth of Earth are closely monitored. Jeff Caird is an &ldquo;immer,&rdquo; one of the rebels secretly working to infiltrate the government to gain influence and loosen the surveillance on citizens. He&rsquo;s also a &ldquo;daybreaker,&rdquo; avoiding stoning and thereby conscious all seven days a week. He operates under a different identity every day, delivering sensitive messages between rebels. Jeff is dedicated to his cause, but maintaining seven separate identities, including jobs, families, and friends, is no small feat, and when the juggling finally begins to take its toll, the immers determine that Jeff is a liability who must be eliminated. Now, he&rsquo;s fighting for survival and on the run from both his fellow rebels and the authoritarian government that considers his mental state incurable and punishable by death. From the Hugo Award&ndash;winning author of the Riverworld and World of Tiers series, Dayworld is &ldquo;an excellent novel, set in a constructed society that is unique and fascinating&rdquo; (Science Fiction Chronicle). </div>

Dayworld

<div>From a multiple Hugo winner and Science Fiction Grand Master: Three mind-bending stories featuring future worlds, space travel, and aliens. Author Philip Jos&eacute; Farmer blasts into space, races into the future, and travels back in time in three astoundingly original and thrilling science fiction adventures. The Lovers: Linguist Hal Yarrow catches a lucky break with an assignment on planet Ozagen, allowing him to escape the theocracy on thirty-first-century Earth. But he can&rsquo;t shake Pornsen, his gapt&mdash;something like a personal guardian angel&mdash;who harangues him for even the slightest wrongdoing. Yarrow submits to Pornsen&rsquo;s constant chaperoning, until he meets Jeannette Rastignac. She&rsquo;s not his wife, his faith says any contact with her is sin, and there are other, odder warnings about Jeannette. But Yarrow&rsquo;s in love . . . Dark Is the Sun: Fifteen billion years in the future, the Earth is cooling and dying. All the planet&rsquo;s life forms have wildly mutated, civilization is primitive, and the sun is cold and black. Deyv, a young member of the Turtle Tribe, is on the hunt for his stolen soul egg, which has been purloined by the thieving creature Yawtl. Without his egg, he won&rsquo;t be able to mate, so Deyv and his companions set out on a quest, leading them across a continent, through many wonders and terrors, to the lair of a mysterious off-worlder who may hold the key to an escape from their rapidly perishing planet. Riders of the Purple Wage: This Hugo Award winner introduces Chib, a young artist hiding out from the IRS in the ultimate welfare state, a society where everyone receives the same wage from birth and stays connected through a personal video device called &ldquo;fido.&rdquo; Chib must win a grant at his next art show&mdash;or he&rsquo;ll be shipped to another society as part of a government exchange program. But his tendency toward provocation and blasphemy may be his undoing. Showcasing the epic range of Farmer&rsquo;s imagination, these varied tales are brilliant, provocative, and endlessly entertaining. </div>

Three Powerful Science Fiction Classics

<div>A whirlwind of fantasy action and adventure descends on Thieves&rsquo; World&reg;&mdash;as related by C. J. Cherryh, Diana L. Paxson, Andrew J. Offutt, and others. Welcome back to Sanctuary, &ldquo;the city where anything could happen, where characters created by some of the best fantasy writers of the generation crossed paths and shared adventures&rdquo; (Black Gate). The Thieves&rsquo; World&reg; series continues with a story line created by Robert Lynn Asprin, C. J. Cherryh, Diana L. Paxson, Lynn Abbey, Janet Morris, and Andrew J. Offutt. In Storm Season, immortal warrior Tempus Thales and his nemesis, the crime lord Jubal, go head to head in fast-paced exploits that bring the simmering tension between them to a boil. &ldquo;Much of Storm Season pertains to the conflict between Asprin&rsquo;s gladiator/crime lord Jubal and Morris&rsquo; Tempus, and the other stories work to move this plotline along, while telling their own tales. Offutt, as usual, steals the show with a Shadowspawn story . . .&rdquo; &mdash;Fantasy-Faction</div>

Storm Season

<div>Missing Game of Thrones? Dare to &ldquo;be pulled into political intrigues, watch new gods replace old, and witness fortunes rise and fall and rise again&rdquo; (Book Riot). A classic series for a new generation of fantasy adventure fans, Thieves&rsquo; World&reg; paved the way for the shared-world anthology tradition with epic worldbuilding, unforgettable characters, and nonstop action thanks to the legendary authors who contribute to it. The series&rsquo;s groundbreaking debut features stories by John Brunner, Lynn Abbey, Poul Anderson, Andrew J. Offutt, Robert Lynn Asprin, Joe Haldeman, Christine DeWees, and Marion Zimmer Bradley, who populate the lawless city of Sanctuary with orphans and wizards, fortune tellers and emperors, merchants and madams, spies, assassins, and, of course, thieves. &ldquo;Sanctuary was the city where anything could happen, where characters created by some of the best fantasy writers of the generation crossed paths and shared adventures.&rdquo; &mdash;Black Gate &ldquo;A bold and daring experiment in fantasy storytelling . . . We are introduced to the cast of characters, including beggars and crime lords, wizards and soldiers, minstrels and thieves, as this new chapter in the life of Sanctuary begins, life under the governorship of Prince Kadakithis.&rdquo; &mdash;Fantasy-Faction </div>

Thieves' World®

<div> War looms over Sanctuary in the fifth Thieves&rsquo; World&reg; anthology compiled by the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of the Phule&rsquo;s Company series. The invasion by the Beysibs, an amphibious humanoid race, brings unusual prosperity to the city of Sanctuary. But underneath the glittering fa&ccedil;ade lies a ticking time bomb, for the nefarious residents of Sanctuary don&rsquo;t take kindly to an invasion&mdash;well-meaning or otherwise . . . Join Janet Morris, C. J. Cherryh, Robert Lynn Asprin, Lynn Abbey, David Drake, and Diana L. Paxson as their stories unravel the fates of Sanctuary&rsquo;s favorite liars, thieves, assassins, and warriors. &ldquo;Abbey . . . understands Sanctuary and its characters. She also knows how to write a short story with a strong main character, a riveting plot that contains twists and turns, and a satisfying resolution. Best story in the book . . . Lalo is the most interesting of all of the characters in Thieves&rsquo; World and his stories are always interesting. Paxson . . . spins an interesting and well written yarn that closes the book nicely.&rdquo; &mdash;brianbookreviews.blogspot.com </div>

The Face of Chaos

<div>Sixth in the magical, action-packed shared-world series: &ldquo;Thieves&rsquo; World&reg; has grown into a real presence in the fantasy genre&rdquo; (Fantasy-Faction). Under the rule of a humanoid race, the city of Sanctuary finds itself divided. Rebels and assassins stalk the shadows, bringing chaos to the streets&mdash;which is nothing new to the lawless locals. But even they will have to put aside their differences to unite against their common enemy. An accomplishment easier said than done in a city where everyone is out for themselves . . . Stories by Chris and Janet Morris, Robin W. Bailey, Diana L. Paxson, Diane Duane, C. J. Cherryh, Andrew J. Offutt, Lynn Abbey, and Robert Lynn Asprin add to the legend and lore of this &ldquo;surprisingly rich and deep world&rdquo; (Book Riot). &ldquo;In the sixth book of the collection, the friction between the residents of Sanctuary and the invading Beysib heats up and makes for some exciting reading . . . Offutt&rsquo;s character Shadowspawn gets some good coverage, and a few fresh new characters also get some play . . .&rdquo; &mdash;Fantasy-Faction &ldquo;&lsquo;The Hand That Feeds You&rsquo; [by Diane Duane] is one of the best stories in the entire collection to date.&rdquo; &mdash;brianbookreviews.blogspot.com </div>

Wings of Omen

<div>The third Thieves&rsquo; World&reg; anthology&mdash;with stories by fantasy&rsquo;s favorite authors&mdash;curated by the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of the Myth series. Times are hard, and the citizens of Sanctuary are not their greedy, immoral, grifting selves. But desperate times call for desperate measures, which means the bad guys are about to up their game. No one is safe from Sanctuary&rsquo;s evil charms&mdash;not the fish in the waters, not the prince&rsquo;s own Hell Hound guards, not even Satan himself. &ldquo;Shadows also includes another story by Offutt that reinforces my opinion that he is incapable of writing a bad story for this series. A number of the tales are Tempus stories, with several of our other recurring characters also making appearances. By virtue of Tempus&rsquo; unique relationship with the god Vashanka, these stories also bring us back toward the storyline of the competing deities, and help us to look forward to new developments in the fourth book. All in all, Shadows is the strongest book amongst the first three publications.&rdquo; &mdash;Fantasy-Faction</div>

Shadows of Sanctuary

<div>Belly up to Thieves&rsquo; World&reg;&rsquo;s favorite bar for tales told by such fantasy stars as Philip Jos&eacute; Farmer, David Drake, Janet Morris, and others. In the second shared-world anthology of the Thieves&rsquo; World&reg; series, we see &ldquo;the gods themselves taking a hand in the fight for the hearts, minds and souls of the citizens of Sanctuary&rdquo; (Fantasy-Faction). Via contributions from Philip Jos&eacute; Farmer, David Drake, Lynn Abbey, A.E. van Vogt, Janet Morris, Andrew J. Offutt, and Robert Lynn Asprin, you&rsquo;ll revisit the nefarious characters of Sanctuary, including One-Thumb, the proprietor of the Vulgar Unicorn; Regli, a nobleman; Illyra, the seer; Hanes, the thief; the crime lord, Jubal; and introducing Tempus Thales, the immortal mercenary. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s the best kind of sequel, the kind which was not meticulously planned from the start, unlike the deliberate megafranchises being created today, which may be plotted out for a decade in advance of the launch. . . . An important book in the series . . . Many elements which will be exploited to huge degree and cast a huge shadow over later pages are introduced here for the first time. . . . In some ways, it provides an anticipatory, even direct, model for the grimdark of the nineties which would follow.&rdquo; &mdash;World of Antra </div>

Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn

<div>From the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of the Riverworld series: An alternate history classic in which the American continents never existed. Two Hawks from Earth, an expanded and revised version of Philip Jos&eacute; Farmer&rsquo;s The Gate of Time, is the story of an Iroquois pilot in World War II. First Lt. Roger Two Hawks is on a bombing run over Romania when his aircraft is shot down and collides with a German plane midair. Two Hawks bails out and survives, but when he reaches the ground, gone are the suburbs he saw from the sky. Instead, there are dirt roads, trees, farms, and an unsettling quiet. Then Two Hawks sees the soldiers: fur-clad men with shiny steel helmets shaped like wolf heads and armed with swords and arrows. Soon he comes to understand that, though a world war still rages, the Americans are absent&mdash;because they don&rsquo;t exist, and neither does the land they&rsquo;d come from. With his modern-day military and technical knowledge, Two Hawks becomes a prize that both armies covet. But he&rsquo;ll have to learn to play by the rules of a new realm in order to survive&mdash;and live to see another world . . . Praise for Philip Jos&eacute; Farmer &ldquo;An excellent science fiction writer.&rdquo; &mdash;Isaac Asimov &ldquo;[Farmer&rsquo;s work is a] blend of intellectual daring and pulp fiction prose.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times &ldquo;Farmer offers his audience a wide-screen adventure that never fails to provoke, amuse, and educate. . . . His imagination is certainly of the first rank.&rdquo; &mdash;Time on The World of Tiers</div>

Two Hawks from Earth

<div>A novel of alien gods, monsters, and galactic destruction from the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of the Riverworld series. Captain Ramstan commands the crew of one of the only alaraf-drive vessels capable of instantaneous travel between two points of space. While on an official scientific surveillance expedition, he revises their mission to join the search for a missing ship. But instead of the spacecraft, they discover a planet in its death throes, decimated by meteors that have been launched with extreme velocity from just outside of its atmosphere. The ultimate source of the destruction, however, is beyond anyone&rsquo;s imagination . . . Ramstan may be the only man who can stop the world-destroying entity known as the &ldquo;Chaos-Monster&rdquo; before it follows in their footsteps to Earth. A stolen alien idol offers aid&mdash;though at a price. But there are those who hear his warnings as nothing but the rantings of a delusional madman, and Ramstan will have to put his career&mdash;and life&mdash;on the line to prove that, though he might not be the savior the universe wants, he&rsquo;s exactly the one it needs. Praise for Philip Jos&eacute; Farmer &ldquo;An excellent science fiction writer.&rdquo; &mdash;Isaac Asimov &ldquo;[Farmer&rsquo;s work is a] blend of intellectual daring and pulp fiction prose.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times &ldquo;Farmer offers his audience a wide-screen adventure that never fails to provoke, amuse, and educate. . . . His imagination is certainly of the first rank.&rdquo; &mdash;Time on The World of Tiers &ldquo;The greatest science fiction writer ever.&rdquo; &mdash;Leslie A. Fiedler, author of Love and Death in the American Novel</div>

Philip José Farmer

Books By Philip José Farmer (16 Books)