The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 1: Protean Dimensions - Now Available on Amazon!

Edited by Michael Croteau, this new anthology is a tour through SF Grand Master Philip José Farmer’s many creations, featuring essays by the likes of Randall Garrett and James Gunn, interviews with Farmer, stories set in Farmer’s expanded worlds by Chris Roberson, David Bischoff, Rhys Hughes, Win Scott Eckert, Christopher Paul Carey, and other SF/F talents, and previously unpublished fiction and more by Farmer himself.

While this acclaimed anthology is still available direct from Meteor House,The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 1: Protean Dimensions is now also available from Amazon!

Obviously we'd prefer everyone to buy direct from Meteor House, but we do know that some readers prefer to buy in bulk from Amazon to save on shipping. Full contents are listed both at Meteor House and Amazon. I'd remind everyone that this book features my first Wold Newton Origins tale, "Is He in Hell?" The second tale, the short-short "Nadine's Invitation," appears in Tales of the Shadowmen 7: Femmes Fatales.

I'm also pleased to announce that Meteor House publisher/editor Mike Croteau and I have been discussing future projects and that The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 3, which should come out some time in 2012, will feature the continuation of the Wold Newton Origins series!

In the meantime, keep your browser pointed at www.meteorhousepress.com for the latest news about the forthcoming The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 2: Of Dust and Soul, which is another tour through Farmer’s many worlds, featuring essays by the likes of Charles Platt and James Sallis, stories set in Farmer’s expanded worlds by Spider Robinson, Mary A. Turzillo, and others, and featuring an all new novella by Philip José Farmer & Christopher Paul Carey ("Kwasin and the Bear God"), along with much more by Farmer himself.

Win Scott Eckert announces contents for THE GREEN HORNET CASEFILES

I'm pleased to announce the final contents Moonstone Books' second Green Hornet anthology,The Green Hornet Casefiles.

• Edited by Joe Gentile and Win Scott Eckert
• Cover Art (Limited Edition Hardcover): Rubén Procopio
• Cover Art (Trade Edition Softcover): Michael Wm. Kaluta
• 336pgs, b/w, Squarebound, 6”x9”
  
  

Contents:

• "The Outlaw Hero" - Introduction by Ron Fortier
• "Sting of the Yellowjacket" by Howard Hopkins
• "Lair of the Living Dead" by Joe McKinney
• "Through a Green Haze" by Dan Wickline
• "The Black Widow" by John Everson
• "A Thing of Beauty" by Bobby Nash
• "The Insincerest Form of Flattery" by Paul D. Storrie
• "Bad Medicine" by Vito Delsante and Win Scott Eckert
• "The Gray Line Between" by F.J. DeSanto, Michael Uslan and Joe Gentile
• "Up in Smoke" by Deborah Chester
• "The Worst Angels of Our Nature" by Paul Kupperberg
• "Now That Would Be Telling" by Bradley H. Sinor
• "Summer of Death" by Barry Reese
• "The Wet and the Wicked" by David Boop
• "The Carlossi Caper" by Arthur A. Lyon
• "Soldanus, the Sultan of Crime" by Gary Phillips
• "The Dangerous Game" by Eric Fein
• "Beauty Is As Beauty Dies" by James Mullaney
• "Auld Acquaintance" by Matthew Baugh
• "Memories of My Grandfather, Raymond J. Meurer" - Afterword by Lisa Meurer Long
• Bonus Story In Limited Edition: "If These Walls Could Buzz" by Tim Lasiuta and Rafael Nieves

Pre-order:

• Moonstone Direct
• Amazon (trade edition)
• Amazon (limited edition)
• B&N (trade edition)
• B&N (limited edition)

Philip Jose Farmer's THE PEERLESS PEER--a new Afterword!

For several months now, fans of Philip Jose Farmer's The Peerless Peer have been looking forward to the new edition from Titan Books--part of their wonderful Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series (I've been getting them all, even though I already have most of them in their prior 1970s or '80s editions).

Now, I'm very pleased (okay, ecstatic!) to announce that I've been in touch with the kind (and very easy to work with) folks at Titan, and that I'm contributing an afterword to the new edition! I've just reviewed the proofs and it looks great.

The release date is less than two months away (June 7), but obviously you can pre-order now!

• Direct fom Titan Books
• Amazon
• B&N
• B&N -- NOOKbook (eBook)

The New York Review of Science Fiction reviews CROSSOVERS

A review of the two-volume Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World appeared in the January 2011 issue of The New York Review of Science Fiction.

Said reviewer Peter Rawlik: "Eckert's rules, scholarly style, and knowledge complement one another, and his work is done with such horrible intense love and logic that somewhere along the way it ceases to be flummery and becomes something more. What would seem an impossible task is acheived in a manner that not only entertains but also informs about the original work."

And: "...Fans of Philip Jose Farmer's Wold Newton stories and crossover fiction in general have good reason to celebrate. Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers should be viewed as an essential work of the metafictional canon with value to fans ans scholars alike, placing it next to such standard works as Jess Nevins's Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana and Shadowmen by Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier."

Crossovers is available:

• Direct from Black Coat Press
• Amazon.com: Volume 1 | Volume 2

The New York Review of Science Fiction reviews CROSSOVERS

A review of the two-volume Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World appeared in the January 2011 issue of The New York Review of Science Fiction.

Said reviewer Peter Rawlik: "Eckert's rules, scholarly style, and knowledge complement one another, and his work is done with such horrible intense love and logic that somewhere along the way it ceases to be flummery and becomes something more. What would seem an impossible task is acheived in a manner that not only entertains but also informs about the original work."

And: "...Fans of Philip Jose Farmer's Wold Newton stories and crossover fiction in general have good reason to celebrate. Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers should be viewed as an essential work of the metafictional canon with value to fans ans scholars alike, placing it next to such standard works as Jess Nevins's Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana and Shadowmen by Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier."

Crossovers is available:

• Direct from Black Coat Press
• Amazon.com: Volume 1 | Volume 2

Wold Newton novel Evil in Pemberley House SOLD OUT!

The Wold Newton novel The Evil in in Pemberley House, by Philip Jose Farmer and, well, me, is sold out at the publisher.

There are two copies left in stock at Amazon.

Perhaps a few copies of the Trade and Limited editions at Camelot Books.

And that's pretty much it, except for copies, as they pop up, on eBay and ABE Books.

The daughter of "Doc Savage"--ahem--Doc Wildman... The Sherlockian mythos... A kick-ass cover by the incomparable Glen Orbik...

"Call now, supplies are limited!" and so forth. :-)

More Tales of Zorro - Now Available!

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I’m pleased to announce that Moonstone Books’ More Tales of Zorro is now in stock! My tale is called “Zorro’s Rival,” and I’m thrilled to contribute to Zorro’s mythos, particularly in such august company.

Edited by Richard Dean Starr

Written by: Carole Nelson Douglas, Alan Dean Foster, Joe R. Lansdale, Timothy Zahn, Kage Baker, Matthew Baugh, Johnny D. Boggs, Henry Darrow, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Win Scott Eckert, Jennifer Fallon, Craig Shaw Gardner, Joe Gentile, John Peel, Jean Schanberger, Richard Dean Starr, & Steve Rasnic Tem

Interior Art: Rubén Procopio
Cover Art: Douglas Klauba

$16.95

Moonstone is proud to present More Tales of Zorro, the second anthology featuring all-new, original tales of The Fox!  Best of all, More Tales of Zorro includes stunning new cover art by Spectrum award-winner Douglas Klauba and even more original interior illustrations by acclaimed Disney animator and sculptor, Rubén Procopio!

With the International success of the recent Telemundo television series Zorro: The Sword and the Rose, as well as the blockbuster films starring Antonio Banderas, the New York Times bestselling Zorro: A Novel by Isabel Allende, the Young Zorro novels by Jan Adkins, and the first Zorro anthology, Tales of Zorro, The Fox continues to be one of the most popular and enduring heroes of the twentieth century. For more than eighty-seven years Zorro has entertained and thrilled audiences around the world.

Direct order from Moonstone Books

Coming soon:

• Amazon.com
• B&N.com

Completed!

I finished a very short (2,500 words) but very complex piece today. I'm pretty proud of it. It's out to a couple valued reviewers right now, and should be on its way to the publisher mid-week.

Can't say more right now, but will as soon as I'm able.

And yes... simultaneously continuing work on The Green Hornet Casefiles editing. Busy weekend.

Crossovers podcast @ The Book Cave

I've done a little podcast about Crossovers (both the books of that title as well as forthcoming crossover stories) at The Book Cave, kindly hosted by Ric Croxton and Art Sippo.

Check it out!

Philip José Farmer’s THE PEERLESS PEER - New Edition, New Cover!

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Here is the cover for the new edition of Philip José Farmer’s The Adventure of the Peerless Peer, coming from Titan Books in June 2011 as part of their Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series.

I like!

Order from:

• Amazon
• B&N.com

February Previews is here, and things are looking very Green!

Diamond Previews' February issue is now out and I'd like to let everyone who orders through their local comic shop know that I've got two items listed this month:

THE GREEN HORNET CASEFILES Softcover

SRP: $18.95

Diamond Code: FEB11 1083

THE GREEN HORNET CASEFILES Limited Edition Hardcover

(Rubén Procopio cover)

SRP: $43.95

Diamond Code: FEB11 1084

I'll have two stories in The Green Hornet Casefiles, which I am also co-editing with Joe Gentile:

• "Bad Medicine," co-written with Vito Delsante, and
• another entry which is a sequel to "Fang and Sting" from the first anthology, The Green Hornet Chronicles.

PHANTOM DETECTIVE Graphic Novel)

(contains Green Ghost prose story which I co-wrote with Eric Fein, illustrated by David Niehaus in Moonstone's "wide-vision" format)

SRP: $8.99

Diamond Code: FEB11 1087

February Previews is here, and things are looking very Green!

Diamond Previews' February issue is now out and I'd like to let everyone who orders through their local comic shop know that I've got two items listed this month:

THE GREEN HORNET CASEFILES Softcover (Michael Wm. Kaluta cover)SRP: $18.95Diamond Code: FEB11 1083THE GREEN HORNET CASEFILES Limited Edition Hardcover (Rubén Procopio cover)SRP: $43.95Diamond Code: FEB11 1084        I'll have two stories in The Green Hornet Casefiles, which I am also co-editing with Joe Gentile:

• "Bad Medicine," co-written with Vito Delsante, and
• another entry which is a sequel to "Fang and Sting" from the first anthology, The Green Hornet Chronicles.

PHANTOM DETECTIVE Graphic Novel)(contains Green Ghost prose story which I co-wrote with Eric Fein, illustrated by David Niehaus in Moonstone's "wide-vision" format)SRP: $8.99Diamond Code: FEB11 1087








              
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Sherlock Holmes: The Crossovers Casebook - pre-order!

Sherlock Holmes: The Crossovers Casebook, is now listed for pre-order on Amazon and Barnes&Noble.com!

"Moonstone Books is proud to present this original anthology featuring never-before-seen tales of the world's first consulting detective, Mr Sherlock Holmes, as he teams up with other investigators and notables of his time! Holmes teams up with one of the most famous thieves of literature, Arsene Lupin! Lawrence of Arabi! Calamity Jane! Sexton Blake! Houdini! The Thinking Machine! Doc Savage's father, Colonel Savage! Featuring short stories from incredible authors including Barbara Hambly, Will Murray, Kevin Van Hook, Martin Powell, Matthew Baugh, Martin Gately, Don Roff, Win Scott Eckert, Chris Sequiera, and Joe Gentile, this collection showcases the secret sequel to the classic Holmes novel 'The Sign of Four', as well as Sherlock and Conan Doyle's own 'Lost World Professor Challenger."

My own contribution is "The Adventure of the Fallen Stone," a semi-sequel to Philip Jose Farmer's The Adventure of the Peerless Peer.

Edited by Howard Hopkins, the book arrives in July!

• Amazon.com
• Barnes&Noble.com

Black Coat Press - February 2011 Releases

From Black Coat Press Publisher Jean-Marc Lofficier:

"THE SUPREME PROGRESS is another anthology of eighteen 19th century French proto-SF stories (following NEWS FROM THE MOON and THE GERMANS ON VENUS) by Brian Stableford. I'll single out two as singularly ground-breaking: Charles Cros' An Interastral Drama (1872), about an unlawful love between an Earthman and a Venusian woman, and Eugène Mouton's The End of the World (1872), depicting an ecocatastrophe precipitated by global warming generated by human industrial activity. The cover is by Mike Hoffman.

UNDERSEA ODYSSEY is a suspenseful 1907 techno-thriller about a crew trapped in a sunken submarine at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, by Captain Danrit, a French war hero (he died at Verdun) and the #1 author of militaristic, near-futuristic thrillers of his time. The cover is by Meinert Hansen.

Finally, HARRY DICKSON AND THE WEREWOLF OF RUTHERFORD GRANGE not only reprints G.L. Gick's (revised) story of Tales of the Shadowmen 1 & 2, but includes four more stories by Gick (two never published before) and an original Harry Dickson tale as well. The cover is by Matt Haley."

http://www.blackcoatpress.com/

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Author John Allen Small Releases Second Collection, SOMETHING IN THE AIR

From John Allen Small:

PRESS RELEASE

AUTHOR JOHN ALLEN SMALL RELEASES SECOND SHORT
STORY COLLECTION, SOMETHING IN THE AIR

Author of the well-received western anthology Days Gone By: Legends And Tales Of Sipokni West, Small here treats his readers to a wider range of settings and subject matter. The collection opens with "The Only Real That Matters," a romantic tale in which the aging narrator recalls how he met the woman he would spend the rest of his life with; "Joshua Williams Breaks A Date" is a two-fisted adventure in the spirit of the pulp fiction magazines of the 1930s, while "A Chip Of The Ol' Block" reminds us that, no matter their age, boys will be boys.

Along the way there are tales both humorous ("Meatloaf And Me: The Untold Story") and tragic ("Day Of The Dove"); and thought-provoking looks at the possible directions society may be headed in ("Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream," "A Ghost Of Christmas Future"). Fans of a certain popular television series of the late 1960s will finally learn the "true" story of an American espionage agent's fall from grace in "The Phelps Dossier." And then there's "While The Birds Hummed Dirges," a most offbeat tale of alien invasion...

Combining several stories originally published elsewhere with others appearing here for the first time, Something In The Air is an eclectic and entertaining collection readers are bound to enjoy. Published by Ethan Books in association with CreateSpace LLC, Something In The Air is now available at Amazon.com.

Battle in the Dawn: The Complete Hok the Mighty

Coming February 2011 from Paizo Planet Stories!

By Manly Wade Wellman with an introduction by David Drake

In the 1930s, an unusual tale appeared in the influential Amazing Stories magazine. Unlike the usual yarns of robots and interstellar travel, “Battle in the Dawn” featured the brutal exploits of Hok, humanity’s first hero. Written by Pulitzer Prize-nominee Manly Wade Wellman (Who Fears the Devil?),who would later achieve fame for his American folktales of Silver John and beat out William Faulkner for a prestigious writing award, this hit story spawned several additional adventures, in which Hok battles unrelenting cavemen, explores lost Atlantis, discovers new technology, and charts a new destiny for humanity.

Now, for the first time ever, Planet Stories presents a complete authorized collection of all of Wellman’s rare Hok the Mighty tales, including an unfinished story fragment and a brand-new introduction by Wellman’s longtime friend, fantasy author David Drake.

Full stories include:
• Battle in the Dawn
• Hok Goes to Atlantis
• Hok Draws the Bow
• Hok and the Gift of Heaven
• Hok Visits the Land of Legends
• Day of the Conquerors

272-page softcover trade paperback ISBN-13: 978-1-60125-289-0

About the Author

Winner of the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Award, the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Locus Award for best novel and best compilation, Manly Wade Wellman is one of the best-regarded writers of the Pulp Age, and a foundational figure in the development of fantasy fiction.

Wold Newton takes over All Pulp!

In honor of Wold Newton Day (December 13), All Pulp Editor in Chief (sort of) Tommy Hancock is devoting not one, not two, but three days to the celebration, over at the fantastic All Pulp site.

First up is Hancock's introduction to the extravaganza, "The Meteor Has Struck!"

Next is my own Wold Newton Primer, "A Nova of Genetic Splendor."

Also, Michael Croteau, the publisher of Meteor House, has posted a 200 word teaser of the first Wold Newton Origins tale, "Is He in Hell?" from The Worlds of Philip Jose Farmer 1: Protean Dimensions.

Mike had also posted a new update at the Official Philip Jose Farmer Home Page in honor of Wold Newton Day, including incredible markdowns for the PJF estate sale.

The celebration will last for three days over at All Pulp, including articles, interviews, transcripts from speeches, even possibly PJF/Wold Newton inspired music(!), as well as reviews of current work in the Wold Newton Universe.

So head on over to All Pulp, and keep on checking back over the weekend as well as on Monday, December 13, 2010 (the 215th anniversary of the Wold Newton meteor strike).

Tales of the Shadowmen 7: Femmes Fatales is NOW AVAILABLE!

I'm pleased to announce that Tales of the Shadowmen 7: Femmes Fatales is NOW AVAILABLE from Black Coat Press!

ORDER HERE

US$22.95/GBP 14.99 - 6x9 tpb, 324 pages - ISBN-13: 978-1-935558-44-6 / cover by Phil Cohen

New non-fic online: "The Farmerian Holmes"

An article I wrote about two-and-a-half years back, covering Philip Jose Farmer's lifelong fascination with Sherlock Holmes, and the Sherlockian influence upon his body of work, is now online. "The Farmerian Holmes" originally appeared in Farmerphile no. 12 (April 2008; now out of print) and appears online by special arrangement with the Offficial Philip Jose Farmer Home Page:

Click here to read "The Farmerian Holmes"

New short fiction online

Black Coat Press has posted a story from the forthcoming anthology Tales of the Shadowmen: Femmes Fatales, and my short "Nadine's Invitation" has been selected as the teaser. The story is the second in the regencypunk "Road to Would Newton" series, describing how certain illustrious persons came to be at Would Newton,* England, on 13 December 1795. The first in the series, the Scarlet Pimpernel tale "Is He in Hell?" appeared in Tales of the Shadowmen: Grand Guignol (Jan 2010), and then was revised for The Worlds of Philip Jose Farmer 1: Protean Dimensions (Meteor House, June 2010).

Read "Nadine's Invitation"

* Would is an accurate spelling, appropriate for the time period.