Booklist gives Philip Jose Farmer’s VENUS ON THE HALF-SHELL AND OTHERS a Glowing Review
In addition to the starred review Publishers Weekly recently gave our upcoming collection by Philip Jose Farmer, Booklist had this to say about Venus on the Half-Shell and Others: “Collected here for the first time, Farmer’s complete fictional author tales include the complete Trout novel, a Trout faux biography, and eight more pseudonymous inventions. Inevitably and unavoidably, the star attraction here is Venus, the story of disillusioned space wanderer Simon Wagstaff and, in its own impish way, one of Farmer’s best short novels.”
Given the reviews it’s receiving, we fully expect Venus on the Half-Shell to join our other Farmer volumes and be sold out on, or shortly after, publication.
Farmer fans will be happy to know that we’ve just reached agreement for a Farmer omnibus for 2009, this one to contain three of the sf Grandmaster’s idiosyncratic, and exceptional, novels, each to be introduced by one of sf or fantasy’s luminaries. We’ll post more details soon.