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Philip José Farmer is a prolific science fiction writer whose success is based on his deft mixture of three primary components, "religion, sex, and violence," in each of his many works, accordi...
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Inherent in science fiction are a number of contradictory impulses: imaginative wonder and scientific exactness, romance and realism, childish joy and adult seriousness, the desire to escape and the p...
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Critical Essay by Leslie A. Fiedler
Philip José Farmer seems now to have reached the point of public recognition, and I for one am feeling a little dismayed…. I liked it much better when...
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Critical Essay by Russell Letson
Philip José Farmer has always been liked and respected inside the science fiction field as an explorer of unconventional or forbidden ideas, a maker of dangerou...
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Critical Essay by J. A. Sutherland
The most flamboyant celebration of the new licence [for sexual openness] is to be found in the late 1960s with Philip José Farmer's Herald Childe (i.e....
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