Ebook {Epub PDF} Venus on the Half-Shell by Philip José Farmer

Venus on the Half-Shell. When this book was published the author listed was Kilgore Trout. Farmer has gone from writing about fictional characters as real people to writing books by fictional authors. This over the top comedy is Farmer's version of GULLIVER'S TRAVELS. Farmer later wrote some stories by Jonathon Swift Somers III who is a fictional author in this book.  · Venus on the Half-Shell by Philip José Farmer is purportedly written by Kilgore Trout. Farmer used that pseudonym in honour of Kurt Vonnegut Jr and a character, Trout, who appears in a number of Vonnegut's books/5. This book is weird, comical, extremely absurd! Reviewed in the United States on Ap. Verified Purchase. Philip Jose Farmer wrote this under the name of Kilgore Trout, which was a fictional author created by Kurt Vonnegut/5(54).

Read "Venus on the Half-Shell" by Philip Jose Farmer available from Rakuten Kobo. Simon Wagstaff narrowly escapes the Deluge that destroys Earth when he happens upon an abandoned spaceship. A man withou. Philip José Farmer bibliography. Venus on the Half-Shell. Book descriptions. Simon Wagstaff narrowly escapes the Deluge that destroys Earth when he happens upon an abandoned spaceship. A man without a planet, he gains immortality from an elixir drunk during an interlude with a cat-like alien queen. Now Simon must chart a 3,year course to. Venus on the Half-Shell by Philip José Farmer is purportedly written by Kilgore Trout. Farmer used that pseudonym in honour of Kurt Vonnegut Jr and a character, Trout, who appears in a number of Vonnegut's books. The story is about the Space Wanderer, an Earthman Simon Wagstaff, who excapes a destroyed Earth in a Chinese spaceship, accompanied.

Farmer's scintillating fictional-author period. In the mids 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 boo. Venus on the Half-Shell and Others collects for the first time the best of the best from Philip Jos?. In Venus on the Half-Shell and Others, Philip Jose Farmer transforms himself into fictional personalities as compelling as they are diverse: Cordwainer Bird, Paul Chapin, Rod Keen, Harry "Bunny" Manders, Leo Queequeg Tincrowdor, John H. Watson, M.D. and even the real-life author William S. Burroughs (writing his own version of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Jungle Lord!). Written as by Kilgore Trout (pseudonym / fictional author). See this webpage with Farmer's story about Kilgore Trout. Slightly expanded from the magazine version "Venus on the Half-Shell". Farmer introduces another fictional author, Jonathan Swift Somers III, and his works about Ralph von Wau Wau. DEDICATION: "Dedicated to the beasts and the stars.