Saturday, February 28, 2009

Philip José Farmer, 1918-2009: R.I.P.

Philip José Farmer, the science fiction writer, died peacefully in his sleep at age 91.

I read some of his stuff back in the mid-1980's, the World of Tiers and Riverworld series. A paperback copy of The Maker of the Universes with a striking cover by Boris Vallejo first drew my attention to Farmer:



h/t Ann Althouse.

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