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Riders of the Purple Wage by Philip José Farmer

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Author Biography

Name: Philip José Farmer
Birth Date: 1918
Place of Birth: North Terre Haute, Indiana, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: Writer, Technical writer

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Biography of Philip Jose Farmer
9381 words, approx. 31.3 pages
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 passion to know. No modern writer expresses and explore...
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Biography of Philip José Farmer
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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, according to Franz Rottensteiner in Science-Fiction Studies....


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Riders of the Purple Wage Information
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Riders of the Purple Wage was a science fiction novella by Philip José Farmer. It appeared in Dangerous Visions, the famous New Wave science fiction anthology compiled by Harlan Ellison, in 1967, and won the Hugo Award for best novella in 1968, jointly...


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The Washington Post
Riders at the Purple Stage; Temperatures Down, They Still Mount Up
02/07/1996: 1,068 words, approx. 4 pages
When the going gets tough, some men put on nylons. The air has sharp teeth and an indiscriminate appetite for jockeys when the temperature is 15 degrees, as it was at Laurel Park Sunday and Monday. A still breeze isn't still for long,...
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The Washington Post
Purple Line Could Draw 47,000 Riders a Year, Officials Say [Correction 12/11/07]
12/04/2007: 468 words, approx. 2 pages
A light-rail line cutting across the Maryland suburbs could draw as many 47,000 riders a year, and a dedicated bus line along a similar route could bring in as many as 45,000 passengers, according to projections that state transportation officials released yesterday for the...
 


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