Pulp Magazine Authors and Literature Fans discussion

Science fiction great and pulp fan in his own right Philip José Farmer passed away on February 25, 2009. Here is a link to his official website, which has some tributes to him. I thought about it when I heard of his passing and realized that some of my all time favortie books were by this man. Just a few examples were Tarzan Alive A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke, Flesh, The Green Odyssey, and Time's Last Gift.

Sorry, I forgot to post the link:
http://www.pjfarmer.com/

Lord Tyger & the World of Tiers series were my favorites by him, although I'll always be in his debt for Venus on the Half-Shell. I'd read a fair amount of Vonnegut & always wanted to read a book by Kilgore Trout. Farmer did it very well. He will be missed.

Yes, I should have added Lord Tygerand Venus on the Half-Shell and Othersmyself. Thanks for mentioning them. I remember at the time that I read VOTHS that I wondered if Vonnegut himself hadn't wrote it.

I struggled with almost every Farmer book I tried to read. But To Your Scattered Bodies Go introduced me to authors I would never have discovered, History that would have been a hidden mystery and a whole host of characters, real and imagined, that have stayed with me for a lifetime.