Philip José Farmer

The Mad Goblin (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Hugo Award-winning author continues his epic fictional pastiche that began with A Feast Unknownin this further adventure of Doc Caliban.

One of Philip José Farmer's most iconic creations, "Doc Caliban" is an alternate-universe version of the famous fictional character Doc Savage. In A Feast Unknown, Caliban and Lord Grandrith (based on Tarzan) discover they share the same devastating affliction caused by a mysterious cabal known as the Nine. In a pair of sequels- The Mad Goblinand Lord of the Trees-Farmer follows each hero on separate adventures as they pursue their revenge on the Nine.

In The Mad Goblin,Doc Caliban tracks down one of the Nine's most powerful members, an ancient dwarf named Iwaldi. Soon, Savage is navigating the dwarf's deadly stronghold, a maze of tunnels honeycombed with hidden devices and traps. Whatever danger he faces, Caliban must overcome-because Iwaldi plans a hideous end to all humanity if he cannot be stopped.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781504091411
• Artikelnr.: 75712505

Autorenporträt

Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) was born in North Terre Haute, Indiana, and grew up in Peoria, Illinois. A voracious reader, Farmer decided in the fourth grade that he wanted to be a writer. For a number of years he worked as a technical writer to pay the bills, but science fiction allowed him to apply his knowledge and passion for history, anthropology, and the other sciences to works of mind-boggling originality and scope. His first published novella, "The Lovers" (1952), earned him the Hugo Award for best new author. He won a second Hugo and was nominated for the Nebula Award for the 1967 novella "Riders of the Purple Wage," a prophetic literary satire about a futuristic, cradle-to-grave welfare state. His best-known works include the Riverworld books, the World of Tiers series, the Dayworld Trilogy, and literary pastiches of such fictional pulp characters as Tarzan and Sherlock Holmes. He was one of the first writers to take these characters and their origin stories and mold them into wholly new works. His short fiction is also highly regarded. In 2001, Farmer won the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement and was named Grand Master by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America.