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28-Окт-10 11:18
(15 лет назад)
Venus on the Half-Shell / Венера на половинке раковины
Год выпуска: 2008
Автор: Philip José Farmer / Филип Фармер
Исполнитель: Christopher Paul Carey
Жанр: Фантастика
Издательство: Нигде не купишь
Язык: Английский
Тип: аудиокнига
Аудио кодек: MP3
Битрейт аудио: 96 kbps
Описание: Venus on the Half-Shell and Others collects for the first time the best
of the best from Philip José 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 his own skin and assume
the persona of another author. 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!). Also included is the
original version of Farmer's classic Sherlock Holmes/Lord Greystoke
pastiche The Adventure of the Peerless Peer, back in print for the first
time in over thirty years.
A unique collection, Venus on the Half-Shell and Others showcases the
grand imagination of one of science fiction's most resourceful and creative
minds.
Фармер иной раз не прочь поиграть в мистификации: роман «Венера на створке раковины» он опубликовал под псевдонимом «Килгор Траут» (герой произведений Курта Воннегута — незадачливый автор плохих фантастических романов), а одного из своих героев объявил соавтором своего романа «Озирис на костылях».
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