In addition to a coveted starred review in Publishers Weekly, Pearls from Peoria is garnering even more glowing reviews:

From Booklist:
“More than 60 pieces in all showcase Farmer’s amazing versatility and should gratify the pants off fans searching for previously unpublished and long-out-of-print gold.”

Paul Di Filippo, in Science Fiction Weekly (A+ Review):
“… we have to acknowledge that Farmer’s unique voice leaps out of every piece. Cumulatively, they represent as clear a transmission of his startling mind and talents as any other book in his oeuvre. The sheer bulk of the material has the effect of enwrapping the reaer in PJF’s warm embrace. (Perhaps that image is a bit too creepy, gien Farmer’s notoriously kinky fiction, but we’ll let it stand.) Farmer’s ludic delights in fiction as gameplaying; his nostalgia for the milestones of Western pop culture (Oz, pulps, Hollywood, etc.); his Midwestern moral sunniness underpinned by psychological darkness (Farmer is the genre’s Sherwood Anderson or Thornton Wilder); his vibrant prose, packed with metaphors–all of this is on display in even the most ‘trivial’ piece herein.”

Look for the trade hardcover edition of Pearls at the end of August, with the limited edition to follow roughly a month later.

Posted on Sunday, August 13th, 2006 at 4:37 pm.