Up from the Bottomless Pit and Other Stories (ISBN 978-1-59606-128-6) is an original collection featuring a novel

Novel

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 and other short literary works by science fiction

Science fiction

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 author

Author

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 Philip José Farmer

Philip José Farmer

Philip José Farmer was an American author, principally known for his award-winning science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories....

, edited by Christopher Paul Carey, published in 2007

2007 in literature

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. All of the works in the book written by Farmer previously appeared in the periodical Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip José Farmer

Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip José Farmer

Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip José Farmer was a quarterly digest-sized magazine which published fiction and non-fiction by and about science fiction and fantasy author Philip José Farmer. Over its first ten issues, the magazine serialized the first-time publication of Farmer's novel Up from...

between the years 2005–2007. The collection is notable in that it includes several mainstream stories by Farmer, who is better known for his science fiction work.

Contents

• "Introduction: Philip José Farmer: On the Road to the Emerald City" by Christopher Paul Carey

• Up from the Bottomless Pit (novel)
• "That Great Spanish Author, Ernesto"
• "The Essence of the Poison"
• "Keep Your Mouth Shut"
• "The Face That Launched a Thousand Eggs"
• "The Doll Game"
• "The Rebels Unthawed"
• "The Frames"
• "The Light-Hog Incident"
• "The Unnaturals"
• "A Spy in the U.S. of Gonococcia"
• "A Peoria Night"
• "I Still Live!"
• "Hayy ibn Yaqzam by Abu ibn Tufayl: An Arabic Mowgli"
• "Why Do I Write?"

External links

• SF Site review of Up from the Bottomless Pit and Other Stories
• Green Man Review review of Up from the Bottomless Pit and Other Stories
• Entry for Up from the Bottomless Pit and Other Stories at Philip José Farmer International Bibliography