Up the Bright River
by Philip José Farmer
This posthumous collection of the short fiction of Philip José Farmer includes space adventures published in science fiction magazines from the 1950s through the 1970s, satires of religion and medicine, fictional biographies and memoirs, and stories set in Riverworld. Appearing for the first time in a Philip José Farmer collection are his last three “Riverworld” stories—featuring characters from his own family history—as well as the “memoir” of Lord Greystoke which he claimed to have merely edited. Other highlights include “Attitudes,” the first of the Father Carmody stories; “The Two-Edged Gift,” which introduces the fictional science fiction writer Leo Queequeg Tincrowdor; “Toward the Beloved City”; and “Father’s in the Basement,” a Gothic horror tale which is also a satire of the writing profession.
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This posthumous collection of the short fiction of Philip José Farmer includes space adventures published in science fiction magazines from the 1950s through the 1970s, satires of religion and medicine, fictional biographies and memoirs, and stories set in Riverworld. Appearing for the first time in a Philip José Farmer collection are his last three “Riverworld” stories—featuring characters from his own family history—as well as the “memoir” of Lord Greystoke which he claimed to have merely edited. Other highlights include “Attitudes,” the first of the Father Carmody stories; “The Two-Edged Gift,” which introduces the fictional science fiction writer Leo Queequeg Tincrowdor; “Toward the Beloved City”; and “Father’s in the Basement,” a Gothic horror tale which is also a satire of the writing profession.