Awards, and Farmer
An Amazon post on recent awards and on Farmer’s passing.
Farmer was also responsible for the pseudonymous Kilgore Trout novel Venus on the Half-Shell. This was one of my dad’s favorite books back in the day (although I think he thought it was by Kurt Vonnegut), and one of my first encounters with science fiction as a result. The confusion surrounding who it was by led me to first Vonnegut and then Farmer.
Note: John Coulthart had a great post on Farmer’s more trangressive works back in 2007.
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First thing I read of Farmer’s was a short story about a werewolf, and, if memory serves, it was also the first time I read the word “ejaculate” in the non-speech sense of the word. Perhaps it is redundant to say I took to his work? Embarrassingly enough, my tattered copy of Venus on the Half-shell currently resides in the V’s instead of the J’s; will have to amend that when I get home, thanks for the clarification.
Er, the F’s? Maybe there’s more than my thinking it was Vonnegut to the state of shelves…
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