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Venus on the Half Shell by Philip Josè Farmer (2008, Hardcover)
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Burton, MI; Subterranean Press: 2008. 1st edition hardcover. OUT OF PRINT. In the mid-1970s a fever-pitched furor was created when an actual novel purported to be by Kilgore Trout -- the sadsack science fiction writer who appears as a character in the works of Kurt Vonnegut -- materialized on the bookracks, complete with a mysterious back cover photo of the author looking like a bearded vagabond sage.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSubterranean Press
ISBN-101596061421
ISBN-139781596061422
eBay Product ID (ePID)62271406
Product Key Features
Book TitleVenus on the Half Shell
Number of Pages323 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2008
TopicScience Fiction / Collections & Anthologies, General, Historical
GenreFiction
AuthorPhilip Josè Farmer
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight23.6 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
SynopsisVenus on the Half-Shell and Others collects for the first time the best of the best from Philip Jos? Farmer's scintillating fictional-author period. In the mid-1970s a fever-pitched furor was created when an actual novel purported to be by Kilgore Trout -- the sadsack science fiction writer who appears as a character in the works of Kurt Vonnegut -- materialized on the bookracks, complete with a mysterious back cover photo of the author looking like a bearded vagabond sage. Debate raged as to who had truly written Venus on the Half-Shell. Was it Vonnegut himself, or perhaps Theodore Sturgeon, rumored to have been the inspiration for Trout? Or did Kilgore Trout really exist? Just as one respected newspaper published an article proving that Vonnegut had written the book, the Hugo Award-winning science fiction author Philip Jose Farmer announced he was the true author. The controversial Kilgore Trout episode was neither the first nor the last time Farmer would impishly slip out of h
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