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Dayworld
''Dayworld'' is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip José Farmer. Published in 1985, it is the first in the Dayworld (trilogy), Dayworld tetralogy of novels inspired by Farmer's own 1971 short story "The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World". There are two sequels - ''Dayworld Rebel'' (1987) and ''Dayworld Breakup'' (1990) - and one prequel, ''Dayworld: A Hole in Wednesday'', co-authored by Danny Adams (2016). Plot summary The story is set in a dystopian future in which an overpopulated world solves the problem by allocating people only one day per week. For the rest of the six days they are "stoned", a kind of suspended animation. The novels focus on a man, Jeff Caird, who is a daybreaker, someone who lives more than one day a week. He is not like most daybreakers; he belongs to a government defying group called the “Immers”. The Immers are a very large and powerful group that works to create a better government. Not all Immers are daybreakers, so to get me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dayworld (trilogy)
''Dayworld'' is a trilogy of science fiction novels by Philip José Farmer, inspired by his own acclaimed short story "The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World". They are set in a dystopian future in which people are allowed to live only one day of the week. For the rest of the six days they are "stoned", a kind of suspended animation. The novels focus on a man, Jeff Caird, who is a daybreaker: someone who lives more than one day a week. As the series progresses, the main character seems to be suffering from dissociative identity disorder. The novels comprising the trilogy are: * Dayworld (1985), ''Dayworld'' (1985) * ''Dayworld Rebel'' (1987) * ''Dayworld Breakup'' (1990) In 2016, a prequel to the trilogy, ''Dayworld: A Hole in Wednesday'', by Philip José Farmer and Danny Adams, was published (7 years after Farmer's death in 2009). Adams also collaborated with Farmer on the short novel ''The City Beyond Play''. Plot background Jeff Caird is a citizen of Tuesday-World N.E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dayworld Breakup
''Dayworld Breakup'' is a 1990 science fiction novel by American writer Philip José Farmer, the last book in the Dayworld Trilogy. Notes See also *Philip José Farmer bibliography In a writing career spanning more than 60 years (1946–2008), American science fiction and fantasy author Philip José Farmer published almost 60 novels, over 100 short stories and novellas (many expanded or combined into novels), two "fictional ... 1990 American novels Dystopian novels Overpopulation fiction Novels by Philip José Farmer 1990 science fiction novels Books with cover art by Don Ivan Punchatz {{1990s-sf-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dayworld Rebel
''Dayworld Rebel'' is a 1987 science fiction novel by American writer Philip José Farmer, the second book in the Dayworld Trilogy. Plot summary In this sequel, Jeff Caird has created a new personality for himself submerging his previous personalities, including his primary personality. He now goes by the name William St.-George Duncan. He has no memory of his previous personalities. He successfully engineers a daring escape from his captors and manages to connect with a rebel organization of Daybreakers. Throughout the novel, he discovers the true nature of the ruling government and the rebel organization. See also *Philip José Farmer bibliography In a writing career spanning more than 60 years (1946–2008), American science fiction and fantasy author Philip José Farmer published almost 60 novels, over 100 short stories and novellas (many expanded or combined into novels), two "fictional ... 1987 American novels Dystopian novels Overpopulation fiction Novels by Philip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip José Farmer Bibliography
In a writing career spanning more than 60 years (1946–2008), American science fiction and fantasy author Philip José Farmer published almost 60 novels, over 100 short stories and novellas (many expanded or combined into novels), two "fictional biographies", and numerous essays, articles and ephemera in fan publications. Novel series World of Tiers ''Original publications:'' # ''The Maker of Universes'' (1965, ) # '' The Gates of Creation'' (1966, ) # '' A Private Cosmos'' (1968, ) # ''Behind the Walls of Terra'' (1970, ) # ''The Lavalite World'' (1977, )''Red Orc's Rage'' (1991, ) series-related, but not in the main sequence. # ''More Than Fire'' (1993, ) ''Later compilations:'' * ''The World of Tiers Volume One'' (SFBC, 1991, inc Vols 1–2) * ''The World of Tiers Volume Two'' (SFBC, 1991, inc Vols 3–5) * ''World of Tiers 1'' (Sphere, 1986, inc Vols 1–3) * ''World of Tiers 2'' (Sphere, 1986, inc Vols 4–5) * ''The World of Tiers'' (Tor, 1996, , inc Vols 1–3) * ''The W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World
"The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip José Farmer, first published in 1971 in ''New Dimensions 1: Fourteen Original Science Fiction Stories.'' The story later formed the basis for Farmer's ''Dayworld'' trilogy of novels.Mary Turzillo Brizzi (1988) ''Science fiction & fantasy book review annual'', Greenwood Publishing Group, p171 Synopsis Due to extreme overpopulation of Earth, citizens in the year 2055 are constrained to "stoners" – cylinders that suspend all atomic and subatomic activity in the body – for every day of the week, except for the one to which they are allocated. Tom Pym only experiences Tuesdays, but yearns to contact a beautiful woman, Jennie Marlowe, who awakes only on Wednesdays. He leaves Jennie an audio message, but she responds with the suggestion that he forget about her. To be with Jennie, Tom attempts to have his allocated day changed to Wednesday, but significant government bureaucracy is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Ivan Punchatz
Don Ivan Punchatz (September 8, 1936 – October 22, 2009) was a science fiction and fantasy artist who drew illustrations for numerous books and publications, including magazines such as '' Heavy Metal'', ''National Geographic'', ''Playboy'', and ''Time''. He illustrated album covers, and provided the cover art for session guitarist Steve Hunter's debut solo album, '' Swept Away''. Characterized as a "skilled hyperrealist with a penchant for the fantastic and absurd" and "elegantly weird," he produced cover art for books by Harlan Ellison, Isaac Asimov and others. Punchatz was born in Arlington, Texas. In 1970, he started the SketchPad Studio there, where he trained dozens of apprentices (known as "the elves") and came to be known as the "Godfather of Dallas Illustration." During 1993, id Software hired him to create the ''Doom'' video game package art and logo. The result was named the second best game box art of all time by '' GameSpy''. His son, Gregor Punchatz, has worked o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip José Farmer
Philip José Farmer (January 26, 1918 – February 25, 2009) was an American author known for his 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 novel. Literary critic Leslie Fiedler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Locus Award
The Locus Awards are an annual set of literary awards voted on by readers of the science fiction and fantasy magazine ''Locus'', a monthly magazine based in Oakland, California. The awards are presented at an annual banquet. In addition to the plaques awarded to the winners, publishers of winning works are honored with certificates, which is unique in the field. Originally a poll of ''Locus'' subscribers only, voting is now open to anyone, but the votes of subscribers count twice as much as the votes of non-subscribers. The award was inaugurated in 1971, and was originally intended to provide suggestions and recommendations for the Hugo Awards. They have come to be considered a prestigious prize in science fiction, fantasy and horror literature. ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'' regards the Locus Awards as sharing the reputation of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Gardner Dozois holds the record for the most wins (43), while Neil Gaiman has won the most awards for works of fic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Games Workshop
Games Workshop Group (often abbreviated as GW) is a British manufacturer of miniature wargames, based in Nottingham, England. Its best-known products are ''Warhammer Age of Sigmar'' and ''Warhammer 40,000''. Founded in 1975 by John Peake (game designer), John Peake, Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson (UK), Steve Jackson, Games Workshop was originally a manufacturer of wooden boards for games including backgammon, mancala, nine men's morris and Go (board game), Go. It later became an importer of the U.S. role-playing game ''Dungeons & Dragons'', and then a publisher of wargames and role-playing games in its own right, expanding from a bedroom mail-order company in the process. It expanded into Europe, the US, Canada, and Australia in the early 1990s. All UK-based operations were relocated to the current headquarters in Lenton, Nottingham in 1997. It started promoting games associated with The Lord of the Rings (film series), ''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy in 2001. It al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marooned In Realtime
''Marooned in Realtime'' is a 1986 murder mystery and time-travel science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge, about a small, time-displaced group of people who may be the only survivors of a technological singularity or alien invasion. It is the sequel to the novel '' The Peace War'' (1984) and the novella '' The Ungoverned'' (1985). Both novels and the novella were collected in ''Across Realtime''. ''Marooned in Realtime'' won the Prometheus Award in 1987 and was also nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel that same year. Plot summary In the story, a device exists that can create a "bobble", a spherical stasis field in which time stands still for a specified length of outside time, allowing one-way time travel into the future. The bobble can also be used as a weapon, a shield against other weapons, for storage, for space travel (combined with nuclear pulse propulsion), and other purposes. People whose bobbles burst after a certain date in the 23rd century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Locus Publications
''Locus: The Magazine of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Field'', founded in 1968, is an American magazine published monthly in Oakland, California. It is the news organ and trade journal for the English-language science fiction and fantasy fields. It also publishes comprehensive listings of all new books published in the genres (excluding self-published). The magazine also presents the annual Locus Awards. ''Locus Online'' was launched in April 1997, as a semi-autonomous web version of ''Locus Magazine''. History Charles N. Brown, Ed Meskys, and Dave Vanderwerf founded ''Locus'' in 1968 as a news fanzine to promote the (ultimately successful) bid to host the 1971 World Science Fiction Convention in Boston, Massachusetts. Originally intended to run only until the site-selection vote was taken at St. Louiscon, the 1969 Worldcon in St. Louis, Missouri, Brown decided to continue publishing ''Locus'' as a mimeographed general science fiction and fantasy newszine. ''Locus'' succeede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Langford
David Rowland Langford (born 10 April 1953) is a British author, editor, and critic, largely active within the science fiction field. He publishes the science fiction fanzine and newsletter ''Ansible'', and holds the all-time record for most Hugo Awards, with a total of 29 wins. Personal background David Langford was born and grew up in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales before studying for a degree in Physics at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he first became involved in science fiction fandom. Langford is married to Hazel and is the brother of the musician and artist Jon Langford. His first job was as a weapons physicist at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston, Berkshire from 1975 to 1980. In 1985 he set up a "tiny and informally run software company" with science fiction writer Christopher Priest, called Ansible Information after Langford's news-sheet. The company has ceased trading. Increasing hearing difficulties have reduced Langford's participation i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
