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Philip José Farmer (January 26, 1918 – February 25, 2009) was an American author known for his award-winning science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories.〔 Obituary.〕 Farmer is best known for his sequences of novels, especially the ''World of Tiers'' (1965–93) and ''Riverworld'' (1971–83) series. He is noted for the pioneering use of sexual and religious themes in his work, his fascination for, and reworking of, the lore of celebrated pulp heroes, and occasional tongue-in-cheek pseudonymous works written as if by fictional characters. Farmer often mixed real and classic fictional characters and worlds and real and fake authors as epitomized by his Wold Newton family group of books. These tie all classic fictional characters together as real people and blood relatives resulting from an alien conspiracy. Such works as ''The Other Log of Phileas Fogg'' (1973) and ''Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life'' (1973) are early examples of literary mashup. Literary critic Leslie Fiedler compared Farmer to Ray Bradbury as both being "provincial American eccentrics" who "strain at the classic limits of the (fiction ) form," but found Farmer distinctive in that he "manages to be at once naive and sophisticated in his odd blending of theology, pornography, and adventure."〔Fiedler, Leslie A., ed. (1975), ''In Dreams Awake: A Historical-Critical Anthology of Science Fiction'', New York City: Dell Publishing Company, pg 120.〕 ==Biography== Farmer was born in North Terre Haute, Indiana. According to colleague Frederik Pohl, his middle name was in honor of an aunt, Josie. Farmer grew up in Peoria, Illinois, where he attended Peoria High School. His father was a civil engineer and a supervisor for the local power company. A voracious reader as a boy, Farmer said he resolved to become a writer in the fourth grade. He became an agnostic at the age of 14. At age 23, in 1941, he married and eventually fathered a son and a daughter. After washing out of flight training in World War II, he went to work in a local steel mill. He continued his education, however, earning a bachelor's degree in English from Bradley University in 1950.〔Jonas, Gerald (2009), 〕 Farmer had both critical champions and detractors. Leslie Fiedler proclaimed him "the greatest science fiction writer ever"〔Stoler, Peter (1980), (“’Riverworld’ Revisited” ), ''Time'', July 28.〕 and lauded his approach to storytelling as a “gargantuan lust to swallow down the whole cosmos, past, present and to come, and to spew it out again.”〔Fiedler, Leslie A. (1972), "Getting into the Task of Now Pornography" ''The Los Angeles Times'', April 23. (Reprinted in slightly different form as “Thanks for the Feast: Notes on Philip Jose Farmer,” In: Farmer, Philip Jose (1973), ''The Book of Philip Jose Farmer, or the Wares of Simple Simon’s Custard Pie and Space Man'', New York: Daw Books, Inc, pp 233–239.)〕 Isaac Asimov praised Farmer as an "excellent science fiction writer; in fact, a far more skillful writer than I am...."〔''I, Asimov.'' Isaac Asimov. Bantam Books. p. 504. 1994.〕 But Christopher Lehmann-Haupt dismissed him in ''The New York Times'' in 1972 as "a humdrum toiler in the fields of science fiction."〔 In 2001 Farmer won the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement and the Science Fiction Writers of America made him its 19th SFWA Grand Master in the same year.〔〔 Farmer died on February 25, 2009.〔 〔(Official website )〕〔() Retrieved April 8, 2009〕 At the time of his death, he and his wife Bette had two children, six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Philip José Farmer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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