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MYTHS FOR THE MODERN AGE:
PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER'S WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE
edited
by Win Scott Eckert
is now available from MonkeyBrain Books:
In his classic “biographies” of fictional
characters (Tarzan Alive and Doc
Savage: His Apocalyptic Life), Hugo- and
Nebula-award winning author Philip José Farmer
introduced the Wold Newton family, a collection of heroes
and villains whose family-tree includes Sherlock Holmes,
Fu Manchu, Philip Marlowe, and James Bond. In books,
stories, and essays he expanded the concept even further,
adding more branches to the Wold Newton family-tree. MYTHS
FOR THE MODERN AGE: PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER’S WOLD
NEWTON UNIVERSE, edited by Win Scott Eckert,
collects for the first time those rarely-seen essays.
Expanding the family even farther are contributions from
Farmer’s successors—scholars, writers, and
pop-culture historians—who bring even more fictional
characters into the fold.
Phil
Farmer's Wold Newtonian essays included in MYTHS
are hard-to-find, and appeared in various fanzines or
other publications over the years. It is certainly a boon
to have them collected here in one Wold Newton-oriented
volume. Almost every contribution from the
"post-Farmerian" writers has been
revised—sometimes significantly—for this book.
These are the official publication versions.
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Paperback: 400 pages; Dimensions (in
inches): 6 x 9
Release Date: November 2005
ISBN: 1-932265-14-7
List Price: $14.95
Two versions of the book cover by
Hugo-nominated artist John Picacio:
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Contents:
Introduction: Myths for the Modern
Age: Farmer’s Wold Newton Family and Shared Universe
Win Scott Eckert
Wold-Newtonry: Theory and
Methodology for the Literary Archaeology of the Wold Newton
Universe
Dr. Peter M. Coogan
The Arms of Tarzan (The English
Nobleman whom Edgar Rice Burroughs called John Clayton, Lord
Greystoke)
Philip José Farmer
The Secret History of Captain Nemo
Rick Lai
From Pygmalion to Casablanca: The
Higgins Genealogy
Mark K. Brown
A Reply To "The Red
Herring"
Philip José Farmer
The Daughters of Greystoke
Chuck Loridans
The Green Eyes Have It - Or Are
They Blue? or Another Case of Identity Recased
Christopher Paul Carey
The Two Lord Ruftons
Philip José Farmer
Kiss of the Vampire
John A. Small
Name of A Thousand Blue Demons
Cheryl L. Huttner
The Great Korak-Time Discrepancy
Philip José Farmer
Asian Detectives in the Wold
Newton Family
Dennis E. Power
This Shadow Hanging Over Me Is No
Trick Of The Light
Jess Nevins
The Lord Mountford Mystery
Philip José Farmer
The Magnificent Gordons
Mark K. Brown
The Legacy of the Fox: Zorro in
the Wold Newton Universe
Matthew Baugh
From ERB To Ygg
Philip José Farmer
Who's Going to Take Over the World
When I'm Gone? (A Look at the Genealogies of Wold Newton Family
Super-Villains and Their Nemeses)
Win Scott Eckert
Jungle Brothers, Or, Secrets Of
The Jungle Lords
Dennis E. Power
A Language For Opar
Philip José Farmer
Watching the Detectives, Or, The
Sherlock Holmes Family Tree
Brad Mengel
Fu Manchu Vs. Cthulhu
Rick Lai
Jonathan Swift Somers III, Cosmic
Traveller in a Wheelchair: A Short Biography by Philip José
Farmer (Honorary Chief Kennel Keeper)
Philip José Farmer
John Carter: Torn from Phoenician
Dreams (An Examination Into the Theories that John Carter was
Phra the Phoenician and Norman of Torn)
Dennis E. Power and Dr. Peter M. Coogan
D is for Daughter, F is for Father
Mark K. Brown
The Monster on Hold (A chapter
from a projected novel in the Lord Grandrith/Doc Caliban series)
Philip José Farmer
Travels in Time
Loki Carbis
A Review of Final Menacing
Glimpses
Art Bollmann
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