It was PFJ that first got me to change my reading style from fairly straight forward space opera to more of a fantasy/fantastic mix, and who opened my eyes to Lovecraft and other styles.
A Barnstormer in Oz is a great book, if you like sexy, revisionist versions of Oz that feature hot Glinda sex, odd and disturbing funeral rituals and explanations for the death of President Warren G Harding, (hint: he was assassinated).
@ 13: Farmer specifically set out to tap into the implications of core Pulp archetypes, like Tarzan and Doc Savage, and flesh them out with more complete 'human' sensibilities (you'd be amazed, even with all the violence and machismo, Pulp novels were relatively sexless)...
Farmer worked to build an overarching cosmology of pulp and fantastic fiction, all loosely braced under the "Wold-Newton" books... He wasn't a plagiarist at all...
If you like sexy, revisionist versions of Oz that feature hot Glinda sex, odd and disturbing funeral rituals and explanations for the death of President Warren G Harding.
He will be missed. One of the good guys.
But I thought Farmer was already dead.
It's way better than Wicked...
The Riverworld books are among my favorites.
Jack Vance may be about the last of the sci-fi pulp era greats still alive.
Good he's still around.
Or a bad rip off of Edgar Rice Burroughs?
I still have first editions of Tarzan and the Ant Men and one of the Mars books on the top of a bookshelf.
Appreciate a writer for what s/he brings new to the table, and consider when they wrote it.
Farmer worked to build an overarching cosmology of pulp and fantastic fiction, all loosely braced under the "Wold-Newton" books... He wasn't a plagiarist at all...