Farmer, Philip Jose (Vol. 1) - Farmer, Philip Jose 1918–
Farmer, Philip Jose 1918–
American science fiction writer. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4, rev. ed.)
Farmer is best known and most often referred to in critical works about science fiction as the first to introduce speculation about sex intelligently as a legitimate subject of science-fiction extrapolation…. [But] we [also] have in [his] stories the premise that a physical species, akin to man in every way (emotionally and physically), had advanced its civilization and control of the secrets of nature so far that it was able to create entire universes, closed cosmoses, establish whatever arbitrary laws of "science" it wished to govern these man-made continuums, and then use them for its own private playgrounds!…
[Farmer's] novels are a veritable fireworks of new concepts in biology and fantasy lands—the creations fall over each other and the possibilities continue to burst from Farmer's mind in ever-growing...
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