Philip José Farmer Livres

Le jour du grand cri, tous les humains qui avaient jamais vécu se réveillèrent, nus, sur les rives d'un fleuve immense, le Fleuve de l'éternité. Ils étaient trente ou quarante milliards entremêlés, issus de toutes les époques et de toutes les cultures, parlant chacun sa langue, ayant chacun sa conception de l'au-delà, et immensément surpris de se retrouver vivants. Parmi eux, des ressuscités célèbres en leur temps, l'explorateur Richard Burton, Sam Clemens, alias Mark Twain, Jean sans Terre, Hélène de Troie, Cyrano de Bergerac, Mozart, Ulysse. Et tous les autres. Tous, ils se demandent qui a construit ce monde impossible, qui les a ramenés à la vie. Et pourquoi ? Il a fallu le talent immense de Philip José Farmer pour évoquer cet univers picaresque, démesuré, à la dimension du passé et de l'avenir de l'humanité, où se mêlent avec allégresse science-fiction, aventures et histoire authentique.

Projeté dans un univers archaïque aux moeurs barbares, un aviateur américain va, par ses connaissances techniques... d'un autre âge, bouleverser le cours de cette guerre parallèle au milieu de laquelle il a fortuitement atterri. Et simultanément, il nous entraîne, à sa suite, vers une des « chutes » les plus extraordinaires, et les plus mémorables, de la science-fiction contemporaine !

Tous les mystères du Fleuve sont en effet, ici, dévoilés. Pourquoi les Ethiques ont-ils ressuscité l'humanité ? Et comment s'y sont-ils pris ? Pourquoi y a-t-il eu entre eux des dissensions ? Quels étaient les mystérieux comploteurs cosmiques ?

Dayworld's a Philip José Farmer trilogy set in a dystopian future in which people live only a day a week. The other days they're stoned, a suspended animation. It focuses on Jeff Caird, a daybreaker: someone who lives more than a day a week. As the series progresses, he seems to suffer Dissociative Identity Disorder. The three parts are Dayworld ('85), Dayworld Rebel ('87), Dayworld Breakup ('90). Caird's a citizen of Tuesday-World New Era 1330. The book starts on D5-W1 (Day-5, Week-1) in the 2nd Month of NE1330. (Each day of the week is the same day number, i.e. Sun-Sat will still be D5-W1). The book covers a week: Tuesday-World D5-W1 to Tuesday-World D6-W1. He's an 'organic' (police officer) by profession. Each day of the week organics have different outfits. Each day of the week has a different fashion trend, tv shows, news etc, most only knowing about each in their own day. He's also an immer, a group acting beneath governmental radar. Their goal's to subtly improve government. There are immers in almost every social sector in each day of the week. He's special in that he's a daybreaker as sanctioned by the immers, used to pass messages from day to day. As a daybreaker, he's mentally created a different identity for himself for each day of the week, different jobs, friends & wives included.

Contents: · The Night of Light · na F&SF Jun ’57 · A Few Miles · nv F&SF Oct ’60 · Prometheus · na F&SF Mar ’61 · Father · na F&SF Jul ’55 · Attitudes · nv F&SF Oct ’53

First "Tiers" novel featuring Earth-born Kickaha. Jadawin and his wife have disappeared, leaving the World of Tiers threatened by invasion and chaos. Human bodies taken over by Lord minds are pouring through uncharted gates. They seek two domination of every private cosmos, and the death of the Trickster, who knows too much.

After 800 years of exploring the stars, Space Commander Stagg had returned to Earth. But Earth had become a new world. Where science and technology had reigned, now there were agriculture and tribal warfare. And mankind worshiped the Goddess and was content. Into this New Earth came Peter Stagg. They named him "Sunhero" and worshipped him acoordingly. The secret rites were performed, and Stagg found himself setting out on a cross-country, orgiastic jaunt, with foot-high antlers throbbing on his head and endowed with the virility of a nation. Yes, Space Commander Peter Stagg was the Sunhero, king of the Earth and all its willing women. But how long he would hold his throne, only the Goddess could say...

When Robert Wolff found a strange horn in an empty house, he held the key to a different universe. To blow that horn would open up a door through space-time and permit entry to a cosmos whose dimensions and laws were not those our starry galxy knows. For that other universe was a place of tiers, world upon world piled upon each other like the landings of a sky-piercing mountain. The one to blow that horn would ascend those steps, from creation to creation, until he would come face to face with the being whose brain-child it was. But what if that maker of universes was a madman? Or an imposter? Or a super-criminal hiding from the wrath of his own superiors? The Maker of Universes is unlike any science-fiction novel you have ever read, it is wonderfully unique.