Anthologies#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Microcosmic God |
1965 |
Buy |
| Orbit 3 |
1967 |
Buy |
| Dangerous Visions |
1967 |
Buy |
| Backdrop of Stars |
1968 |
Buy |
| Orbit 11 |
1972 |
Buy |
| Alpha 3 |
1972 |
Buy |
| Demon Kind |
1973 |
Buy |
| Bug-Eyed Monsters |
1974 |
Buy |
| Continuum 1 |
1974 |
Buy |
| Jack the Knife: Tales of Jack the Ripper |
1975 |
Buy |
| Weird Heroes Volume 1 |
1975 |
Buy |
| Weird Heroes Volume 2 |
1975 |
Buy |
| Nebula Award Stories Ten |
1976 |
Buy |
| Weird Heroes Volume 6 |
1977 |
Buy |
| Weird Heroes Volume 8 |
1977 |
Buy |
| Chrysalis Volume 2 |
1978 |
Buy |
| The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction / Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century |
1980 |
Buy |
| Shadows of Sanctuary |
1981 |
Buy |
| The Monster Book of Monsters |
1988 |
Buy |
| The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes |
1989 |
Buy |
| Semiotext SF |
1991 |
Buy |
| Tales Of Riverworld |
1993 |
Buy |
| The Science Fiction Century |
1997 |
Buy |
| Naked Came the Farmer |
1998 |
Buy |
| The Worlds of Philip José Farmer: Protean Dimensions |
2010 |
Buy |
Dayworld Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Dayworld: A Hole in Wednesday |
2016 |
N/A |
| The Sliced-Crosswise Only-on-Tuesday World |
1971 |
N/A |
| Dayworld |
1985 |
Buy |
| Dayworld Rebel |
1987 |
Buy |
| Dayworld Breakup |
1990 |
Buy |
Doc Caliban and Lord Grandrith Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| A Feast Unknown |
1995 |
Buy |
| Lord of the Trees |
1970 |
Buy |
| The Mad Goblin |
1970 |
Buy |
Herald Childe Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Image of the Beast |
1968 |
Buy |
| Blown |
1969 |
Buy |
| Traitor to the Living |
1973 |
Buy |
Non-Fiction#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| A Rough Knight for the Queen |
2020 |
Buy |
Opar Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Hadon of Ancient Opar |
1974 |
Buy |
| Flight to Opar |
1976 |
Buy |
Philip Jose Farmer’s The Dungeon Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Black Tower |
1988 |
Buy |
| The Lake of Fire |
1989 |
Buy |
| The Hidden City |
1990 |
Buy |
| The Dungeon |
2003 |
Buy |
| The Dark Abyss |
2016 |
Buy |
| Philip José Farmer’s The Dungeon |
1988 |
Buy |
| The Valley of Thunder |
1989 |
Buy |
| The Final Battle |
1990 |
Buy |
| Philip José Farmer’s The Dungeon Vol. 6, The Final Battle |
2017 |
Buy |
Philip José Farmer Short Stories/Novellas Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Queen of the Deep |
1954 |
Buy |
| The Black Tower |
1988 |
N/A |
| How Deep the Grooves |
1963 |
Buy |
| The Dark Abyss |
1989 |
N/A |
| The Valley of Thunder |
1989 |
N/A |
| Heel & The Wounded |
2009 |
Buy |
| The Lake of Fire |
1989 |
N/A |
| Rastignac the Devil |
2021 |
Buy |
| The Hidden City |
1990 |
N/A |
| The Final Battle |
1990 |
N/A |
Philip José Farmer Short Story Collections Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| They Twinkled Like Jewels |
1954 |
Buy |
| The Black Tower |
1988 |
N/A |
| Alley God |
1959 |
Buy |
| The Dark Abyss |
1989 |
N/A |
| Strange Relations |
1960 |
Buy |
| The Valley of Thunder |
1989 |
N/A |
| Down in the Black Gang |
1971 |
Buy |
| The Lake of Fire |
1989 |
N/A |
| The Book of Philip José Farmer |
1973 |
Buy |
| The Hidden City |
1990 |
N/A |
| Riverworld War |
1980 |
Buy |
| The Final Battle |
1990 |
N/A |
| Father to the Stars |
1981 |
Buy |
| The Cache |
1981 |
Buy |
| The Purple Book |
1982 |
Buy |
| The Grand Adventure |
1984 |
Buy |
| The Classic Philip Jose Farmer 1964-1973 |
1984 |
Buy |
| Riders of the Purple Wage |
1992 |
Buy |
| The Best of Philip José Farmer |
2006 |
Buy |
| Pearls from Peoria |
2006 |
Buy |
| Up From The Bottomless Pit And Other Stories |
2007 |
Buy |
| Venus on the Half-Shell and Others |
2008 |
Buy |
| Tales of the Wold Newton Universe |
2013 |
Buy |
| Riverworld and Other Stories |
2017 |
Buy |
| Greatheart Silver and Other Pulp Heroes |
2019 |
Buy |
| The Man Who Met Tarzan |
2021 |
Buy |
Philip José Farmer Standalone Novels Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Green Odyssey |
1957 |
Buy |
| The Black Tower |
1988 |
N/A |
| A Woman a Day / The Day of Timestop / Timestop! |
1960 |
Buy |
| The Dark Abyss |
1989 |
N/A |
| Flesh |
1960 |
Buy |
| The Valley of Thunder |
1989 |
N/A |
| The Lovers |
1961 |
Buy |
| The Lake of Fire |
1989 |
N/A |
| Cache from Outer Space |
1962 |
Buy |
| The Hidden City |
1990 |
N/A |
| Fire and the Night |
1962 |
Buy |
| The Final Battle |
1990 |
N/A |
| Inside Outside |
1964 |
Buy |
| Tongues of the Moon |
1964 |
Buy |
| Dare |
1965 |
Buy |
| Night Of Light |
1966 |
Buy |
| The Gate of Time / Two Hawks from Earth |
1966 |
Buy |
| The Day of Timestop |
1968 |
Buy |
| Lord Tyger |
1970 |
Buy |
| The Stone God Awakens |
1970 |
Buy |
| Love Song |
1970 |
Buy |
| Time’s Last Gift |
1972 |
Buy |
| The Other Log of Phileas Fogg |
1973 |
Buy |
| The Wind Whales of Ishmael |
1973 |
Buy |
| Venus on the Half-Shell |
1975 |
Buy |
| Ironcastle |
1976 |
Buy |
| Dark is the Sun |
1979 |
Buy |
| Jesus on Mars |
1979 |
Buy |
| The Unreasoning Mask |
1981 |
Buy |
| Stations of the Nightmare |
1982 |
Buy |
| Greatheart Silver |
1982 |
Buy |
| A Barnstormer in Oz |
1982 |
Buy |
| Nothing Burns in Hell |
1988 |
Buy |
| The Caterpillar’s Question |
1992 |
Buy |
| The City Beyond Play |
2007 |
Buy |
| The Evil in Pemberley House |
2009 |
Buy |
| Up From The Bottomless Pit |
2020 |
Buy |
Riverworld Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Le Monde du fleuve |
1971 |
N/A |
| To Your Scattered Bodies Go |
1971 |
Buy |
| Auf dem Zeitstrom |
1971 |
N/A |
| The Fabulous Riverboat |
1971 |
Buy |
| The Dark Design |
1977 |
Buy |
| The Magic Labyrinth |
1980 |
Buy |
| Gli dei del Fiume |
1983 |
N/A |
| Gods of Riverworld |
1983 |
Buy |
| River of Eternity |
1983 |
Buy |
| Human Spirit, Beetle Spirit |
1992 |
Buy |
| The Merry Men of the Riverworld |
1992 |
Buy |
Tarzan Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Tarzan Alive |
1972 |
Buy |
| Doc Savage |
1973 |
Buy |
| Tarzan and the Dark Heart of Time |
1999 |
Buy |
The Further Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Adventure of the Peerless Peer |
1974 |
Buy |
| War of the Worlds |
1975 |
Buy |
| The Giant Rat of Sumatra |
1976 |
Buy |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac |
1994 |
Buy |
| The Angel of the Opera |
1994 |
Buy |
| Between the Thames and the Tiber |
2011 |
Buy |
| The Albino’s Treasure |
2015 |
Buy |
| Murder at Sorrow’s Crown |
2016 |
Buy |
| Imagination Theatre’s Sherlock Holmes of Scripts From The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
2017 |
Buy |
| The Improbable Prisoner |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Devil and the Four |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Instrument of Death |
2019 |
Buy |
| The Crusader’s Curse |
2020 |
Buy |
| Revenge from the Grave |
2022 |
Buy |
| Deathly Relics |
2023 |
Buy |
| The Gentleman Burglar |
2024 |
Buy |
| Sherlock vs Dracula |
1978 |
Buy |
| The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Stalwart Companions |
1978 |
Buy |
| The Stalwart Companions |
1978 |
Buy |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes |
1979 |
Buy |
| The Ectoplasmic Man |
1985 |
Buy |
| The Seventh Bullet |
1992 |
Buy |
| The Whitechapel Horrors |
1992 |
Buy |
| Seance for a Vampire |
1994 |
Buy |
| The Titanic Tragedy |
1996 |
Buy |
| The Scroll of the Dead |
1998 |
Buy |
| The Star of India |
1998 |
Buy |
| The Haunting of Torre Abbey |
2000 |
Buy |
| The Man from Hell |
2000 |
Buy |
| The Veiled Detective |
2004 |
Buy |
| The Web Weaver |
2012 |
Buy |
| The Grimswell Curse |
2013 |
Buy |
| The Devil’s Promise |
2014 |
Buy |
| The Counterfeit Detective |
2016 |
Buy |
| The Ripper Legacy |
2016 |
Buy |
| The White Worm |
2016 |
Buy |
| The Moonstone’s Curse |
2017 |
Buy |
| The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Part 1: 1881-1891 |
2019 |
Buy |
| The Martian Menace |
2020 |
Buy |
| The Venerable Tiger |
2020 |
Buy |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Four Kings of Sweden |
2021 |
Buy |
Thieves’ World Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Den vulgära enhörningen |
1980 |
N/A |
| Shadows of Sanctuary |
1981 |
Buy |
| Storm Season |
1982 |
Buy |
| The Face of Chaos |
1983 |
Buy |
| Dagger |
1988 |
N/A |
| Wings of Omen |
1984 |
Buy |
| The Dead of Winter |
1985 |
Buy |
| The Shattered Sphere |
1986 |
N/A |
| Blood Ties |
1986 |
Buy |
| Shadowspawn |
1987 |
Buy |
| Aftermath |
1987 |
Buy |
| The Shadow of Sorcery |
1993 |
Buy |
| Thieves’ World: Player’s Manual |
2005 |
N/A |
| The Secret of the Blue Star |
2013 |
Buy |
| Thieves’ World |
1979 |
Buy |
| Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn |
1980 |
Buy |
| Soul of the City |
1986 |
Buy |
| Uneasy Alliances |
1988 |
Buy |
| Stealers’ Sky |
1989 |
Buy |
| Sanctuary |
2002 |
Buy |
| Turning Points |
2002 |
Buy |
| Enemies of Fortune |
2004 |
Buy |
Wild Adventures Of Doc Savage Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Escape from Loki |
1991 |
Buy |
| Python Isle |
1991 |
Buy |
| White Eyes |
1992 |
Buy |
| The Frightened Fish |
1992 |
Buy |
| The Jade Ogre |
1992 |
Buy |
| Flight into Fear |
1993 |
Buy |
| The Whistling Wraith |
1993 |
Buy |
| The Forgotten Realm |
1993 |
Buy |
| The Desert Demons |
2011 |
Buy |
| Horror in Gold |
2011 |
Buy |
| The Infernal Buddha |
2012 |
Buy |
| Death’s Dark Domain |
2012 |
Buy |
| The Miracle Menace |
2013 |
Buy |
| Skull Island |
2013 |
Buy |
| Phantom Lagoon |
2013 |
Buy |
| The War Makers |
2014 |
Buy |
| The Ice Genius |
2014 |
Buy |
| The Sinister Shadow |
2015 |
Buy |
| The Secret of Satan’s Spine |
2015 |
Buy |
| Glare of the Gorgon |
2016 |
Buy |
| Empire of Doom |
2017 |
Buy |
| Mr. Calamity |
2018 |
Buy |
World Of Tiers Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| A Shropshire lad. |
1922 |
N/A |
| The Maker of Universes |
1965 |
Buy |
| The Gates of Creation |
1966 |
Buy |
| Врата творения |
1966 |
N/A |
| A Private Cosmos |
1967 |
Buy |
| Личный космос |
1967 |
N/A |
| Behind the Walls of Terra |
1970 |
Buy |
| За стенами Терры |
1970 |
N/A |
| The Lavalite World |
1977 |
Buy |
| Невъзможен свят |
1977 |
N/A |
| Red Orc’s Rage |
1991 |
Buy |
| More Than Fire |
1993 |
Buy |
Philip Jose Farmer (1918-2009) was one of science fiction’s most imaginative and controversial authors. He broke into the field in 1952 with “The Lovers,” a novella that dealt frankly with human-alien sexual relationships at a time when such content was taboo in the genre. Throughout his career, Farmer pushed at the boundaries of what science fiction could address, mixing adventure storytelling with provocative ideas about religion, sexuality, and identity.
His two most famous series are Riverworld, which imagines all of humanity resurrected along the banks of a massive river on an alien world, and World of Tiers, about pocket universes created by god-like beings. He was also a pioneer of crossover fiction, creating the Wold Newton family concept that links dozens of fictional characters into a single genealogy. Farmer won three Hugo Awards over the course of his career, including a Lifetime Achievement award. His influence can be seen in later authors who blend pulp adventure traditions with literary ambition.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Philip José Farmer written?
Philip José Farmer has written 232 books across sixteen series.
What was Philip José Farmer's first book?
Philip José Farmer’s first book is A Shropshire lad., published in 1922.
What is the Wold Newton family concept that Philip Jose Farmer created?
Farmer developed the Wold Newton family theory, which proposes that many fictional heroes (Tarzan, Doc Savage, Sherlock Holmes, and others) are all related, descended from people present at a meteorite strike in Wold Newton, Yorkshire, in 1795. This concept has been widely adopted by other authors and pop culture.