Strange Relations Philip José Farmer Books
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Hailed by The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction as "[p]erhaps the most impish and anarchic" of the major SF writers, SFWA Grand Master and three-time Hugo winner Philip José Farmer was the first to explore sexuality in a human-alien context. The two complete novels and five novelettes collected here were some of the most controversial and groundbreaking stories of their time.
The Lovers Sent by the religious tyranny of a future Earth to the planet Ozagen, Hal Yarrow meets Jeanette, an apparently human fugitive hiding in ancient ruins built by a long-vanished race. Unconsecrated contact with any female is forbidden to Yarrow-and love for an alien female is anathema. But Yarrow's lifelong conditioning is no match for his strange attraction to Jeanette.
Flesh After a voyage lasting 800 years, a starship captain returns to find a ravaged Earth ruled by ancient pagan rituals. He is crowned the "Sunhero"-a dubious honor, for unless he can escape, his six-month reign of promiscuity will conclude with a very unpleasant death.
Plumbing the mysteries of alien sex far deeper than once thought permissible, Strange Relations displays the boundless imagination that made Philip José Farmer an SF master.
Strange Relations Philip José Farmer Books
A master story-teller, the spiritual father of all fantastic fantasy/science-fiction erotica, Philip Jose Farmer is at his best in this collection of memorable short stories. Farmer's fiction is always fascinating, but this selection of stories stands out as little masterpieces exploring the dangerous worlds of sexuality between wildly divergent species which makes films like Avatar look like pap and drivel. Highly recommended.Product details
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Strange Relations Philip José Farmer Books Reviews
Philip Jose Farmer's _Strange Relations_ (1960) is a collection of five stories from various magazines of the fifties. Phil Farmer was the Bad Boy of science fiction in those days, who at his best could break taboos and forge new boundaries. At his worst, he could squander his talents on tasteless potboilers. Not to keep you in suspense, these are some of Farmer's better tales. In spite of a similarity of titles, only two stories are directly related to one another. The stories are thematically related-- they are weird explorations of sex and family, reflecting a somewhat Freudian world view.
The stories are "Mother" (_Thrilling Wonder Stories_, 1953), "Daughter" (_Thrilling Wonder Stories_, 1954), "Father" (_Fantasy and Science Fiction_, 1955), "Son" (aka, "Queen of the Deep," _Argosy_, 1954), and "My Sister's Brother" (aka, "The Strange Birth," _Satellite_, 1959).
"Mother" and "Daughter" are the sequels, though truth to tell, they actually read more like independent stories than related tales. In the first tale, a spaceship crashes on an alien world. The only survivors are a female doctor and her effeminate, mother-dominated son. The clocks on the ship begin to run backwards. Later, an alien takes on the personality of the mother, and it takes on the physical charicteristics of the womb. The son eventually retreats to a fetal position, presumably to aid in an alien birth. In the second tale, a female alien Virgin who is "immobile" remembers advice communicated to her by her mobile Father (the Son of the earlier tale). It enables her to outsmart a dangerous preddator she labels the "olf-way".
"Father" is a Father John Carmody story. Carmody, his Bishop, and a spaceship crew and passengers make a forced landing on a planet that has a rather bad reputation, though nobody seems to know exactly why. It turns out that it has a rather bizarre ecosystem ruled over by a male entity with apparently godlike powers. But, as Carmody notes, Father is not God. I must admit that I would not, as Carmody and the Bishop do, go skinny dipping in a strange pool on an alien world. That would be like going for a swim in the River.
"Son" is arguably the most straightforward story in the collection. A man about to leave his wife in Hawaii fo live a secure existance with his mother on the mainland has his ship blown up out from under him and is captured by a living submarine with a female personality. After living as a prisoner in this womblike existence, he escapes-- and decides to return to his wife.
"My Sister's Brother," like Farmer's first novel, _The Lovers_, was much-rejected as "nauseating" before finally being accepted. It is now recognized as something of a classic, the most complicated of the biological stories in this collection. Cardigan Lane,an Earthman more noted for his virility than his brains, is stranded on Mars. He attempts a pairing with a very strange alien life form-- to his ultimate horror, but to the welfare of the Martian race.
Psychologically, I am more of a behaviorist than a Freudian. But I must admit that the symbol-laden psychologies of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung have had a powerful impact on modern literary thought. Readers should have fun with various symbols, mythical images and puns running through these stories.
Strange, pointless, and not a single thread.
I haven't had the chance to read this yet but the book looks interesting. I'm a huge science fiction nerd so this book will definitely go into my collection.
Have always enjoyed Farmer's writing.
Farmer's work is like nothing anyone has ever read. He takes love, sex, aliens and religion, throws them into a salad and comes up with a masterpiece. The Lovers alone is worth the price of this one. The others are delicious frosting on a kinky cake. Read only if you're broad minded, but if you are, you will laugh, cry and scream at this one. A bouquet of masterpieces. Don't miss it!
I bought this book after hearing of Philip Jose Farmer's death and reading of how he supposedly broke the taboo of sexual themes in science fiction. This book contains the groundbreaking story "The Lovers" (for which publication/expansion dates of 1952, 1961, and 1979 are given). It's a very good read. Central character Hal Yarrow escapes a hellishly frustrating marriage by volunteering for service as a linguistic specialist on mission to a planet populated by bug-like aliens. He cannot as easily escape the bonds of his dogmatic and suppressive religion. Once on the ground, Hal begins to stray from his mission...
Two more "novels" are included in this volume. Of the three, "Flesh" is the raciest. There is no material here that could be called explicit, but this bawdy comedy centers around Peter Stagg who leads a crew of space travelers returning to a future Earth transformed into tribal countries, one of which surgically attaches fleshy antlers to Stagg's head making him their "Sunhero" who must romp around the countryside impregnating crowds of eager virgins. Modern sensibilities might be offended by the episode involving the Pants Elves (the tribe that rules Pants-Elf-vania, and who are all homosexual males). The apparent fury with which Stagg dispatches them in making his escape might be considered gay-bashing. On the other hand, Stagg is pretty much out of control when his antlers are pumped. Make your own allusions.
The third "book" is called "Strange Relations" and is a collection of short stories. The first two are connected. In "Mother", an Earthman participates in an alien's reproductive process, and in "Daughter" one of the progeny heeds well the advice of her "dad". The next segment "Father" is a bit of a tease since you might imagine that it is a further continuation, though not obviously so, as we see a planet where a god-like Father holds sway. In the end, no connection to the first two parts is evident, but the story stands on its own as a broad spoof of Christian themes. The fourth part "Son" leaves no doubt. Very straight sci-fi compared to the rest of the book. The final segment "My Sister's Brother" is perhaps the most satisfying story in the volume. While on a spooky rescue mission on a fanciful Mars, spaceman Lane is thrown into a situation both seductive and well outside the bounds of his by-the-book sensibilities. Typical of Farmer's protagonists, he is a musclebound doofus who just might avoid disaster despite himself.
All in all, an interesting and entertaining collection of stories.
A master story-teller, the spiritual father of all fantastic fantasy/science-fiction erotica, Philip Jose Farmer is at his best in this collection of memorable short stories. Farmer's fiction is always fascinating, but this selection of stories stands out as little masterpieces exploring the dangerous worlds of sexuality between wildly divergent species which makes films like Avatar look like pap and drivel. Highly recommended.
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