Philip Jose Farmer Books in Order

Later folded into Strange Relations, this compact novel explores family, sexuality, and identity in a future that does not play by familiar rules. Farmer makes the discomfort part of the point.

Also associated with The Cache, this shorter work brings Farmer's taste for alien mystery and sharp reversals into a compact package. The title sounds dreamy, but the story has real bite.

Shipwrecked astronaut Alan Green crosses a strange planet in search of rumored survivors. The journey mixes alien adventure with the complications of bringing his family along.

This early collection gathers The Alley Man, The Captain's Daughter, and The God Business. It is a good snapshot of young Farmer, already mixing myth, irony, and speculative daring.

This future-set novel, also published under two alternate titles, continues ideas Farmer first explored in The Lovers. Sex, identity, and biology all become part of a strange social puzzle.

Richard Stagg returns from long cold sleep to an Earth transformed beyond recognition. What should be a homecoming becomes a culture shock wrapped in religion, desire, and survival.

These linked future tales turn family, reproduction, and desire into the center of the speculation. It is one of Farmer's boldest smaller books, strange on purpose and hard to forget.

Linguist Hal Yarrow studies an alien world and falls in love with a woman who seems almost human. Their romance opens into one of Farmer's boldest early challenges to science fiction convention.

A young man sets out to find a better homeland for his tribe and discovers traces of a far older world. The quest begins locally and opens into something much larger.

At a steel mill, a white worker and a married Black coworker begin a fraught relationship. Farmer uses the setup to turn desire, race, and hidden motives into a tense mainstream drama.

This shorter Farmer work turns inward without losing its speculative edge. It is interested in what experience carves into people, and what remains after the cutting stops.

Farmer builds a metaphysical science fiction puzzle out of questions about souls, bodies, and where consciousness begins. It is one of his strangest books, more unsettling than straightforward.

Stranded on the Moon when nuclear war breaks out on Earth, the characters still do not get a clear shot at survival. Farmer turns isolation into a sharp, action-heavy sf story.

A human man's love for a woman who is not human becomes the door into one of Farmer's odder speculative worlds. Romance is only the start of the complication.

Robert Wolff blows a mysterious horn and is pulled into a pocket universe of tiers, Lords, and traps. Rejuvenated and outmatched, he must rely on the trickster Kickaha to survive.

Father John Carmody reaches a world where the mysterious Night of Light changes anyone reckless enough to stay awake through it. Religion, vision, and transformation drive this eerie classic.

Roger Two Hawks bails out over World War II and lands in another war on another Earth. Alternate history and survival adventure carry the book from there.

Jadawin's wife is taken by a rival Lord, sending him into another engineered world built to trap him. The rescue quest expands the politics and danger of the Tiers.

Kickaha takes center stage in a fast, swaggering chase across the Tiers. Rival Lords, secret plans, and his own refusal to stay beaten keep the series moving at full speed.

Detective Herald Childe hunts the killers behind his partner's gruesome murder and stumbles into a hidden world of monsters. The case starts like noir and turns wild, dark, and deeply strange.

Published under this title as well as A Woman a Day and Timestop!, the novel continues Farmer's provocative future speculation. Desire and altered humanity keep pushing the story into stranger territory.

Farmer recasts Tarzan and Doc Savage as rival supermen trapped inside a brutal plot by the Nine. It is a lurid, violent, idea-heavy pulp mashup that refuses to play safe.

Herald Childe, now back in school, is dragged again into the world behind Image of the Beast. What seemed supernatural opens into alien politics, family secrets, and a fight over where he truly belongs.

Kickaha lands back on Earth and learns it is not what it seems. Once he realizes the planet is a crafted pocket universe, escape becomes only the first problem.

Grandrith learns his real enemy is not Caliban but the secret power behind them both. The revenge story widens into a globe-spanning hunt through conspiracy, violence, and pulp legend.

A wealthy schemer tries to manufacture his own Tarzan by placing a stolen English child in the jungle. Farmer turns the setup into a sharp, unsettling experiment about myth and control.

Jack Weston becomes entangled with a mysterious young woman and her mother, and the affair turns dangerous fast. This is late Farmer at his most intimate and least comfortable.

This companion to Lord of the Trees follows Caliban's side of the same war against the Nine. The action is rougher than classical pulp and full of Farmer's favorite twists on hero myth.

Ulysses Singing Bear is petrified and wakes millions of years later on an almost unrecognizable Earth. The book runs on far-future wonder and the loneliness of surviving too long.

This collection pulls together several strong shorter works, including the title story and a Riverworld piece. It shows how many different directions Farmer could move in without losing his voice.

Sam Clemens decides the best way to solve Riverworld is to build the greatest boat on it. The project draws rivals, allies, and new clues about the people running the experiment.

Richard Francis Burton wakes naked beside an endless river where all of humanity has been resurrected. The mystery of who built Riverworld turns a grand premise into an obsessive quest.

Farmer writes Tarzan as if he were a real historical figure, not a fictional one. The result is part biography, part literary game, and part love letter to jungle adventure.

A time-travel expedition heads into the distant past expecting discovery and control. Instead, the trip opens into deeper mysteries that Farmer reveals slowly and with a sting.

Farmer gives Doc Savage the same treatment he gave Tarzan, building a life story and extended family tree around a pulp icon. It is playful, obsessive, and great fun if you like literary crossovers.

More than a simple collection, this volume mixes stories, playful pieces, and some of Farmer's favorite obsessions. It is a broad sampler for readers who want the stranger corners.

Farmer rewrites Fogg's famous journey as the hidden front of an alien struggle for Earth. It is a gleeful literary mashup with secret history running beneath a classic adventure.

Ishmael from Moby-Dick wakes in a remote future where ships sail the sky and whales fly. Farmer treats the borrowed hero seriously, which makes the strange setting land even better.

Living under another name, Childe is drawn into a new crisis when a machine that can reach the dead appears. The question is not just who built it, but what else it can do.

In prehistoric Africa, Hadon of Opar hopes to win glory and rise to kingship. Instead he is swept into a civil war that turns athletic ambition into survival.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson head into wartime Africa on a case that becomes stranger by the mile. Farmer turns it into a playful crossover where the great detective meets Tarzan.

Written under the name Kilgore Trout, this comic cosmic quest follows Simon Wagstaff in search of the answer to suffering. The tone is absurd, satirical, and knowingly over the top.

This anthology launches a pulp revival with offbeat masked adventurers, serial energy, and a love of old magazine thrills. Farmer's Greatheart Silver helps set the tone, playful and fast.

Hadon races back toward Opar with prophecy, war, and family all closing in on him. The book keeps the series rooted in lost-world action while pushing its larger fate forward.

Farmer's translation introduces an early French fantastic adventure to English readers. The journey has the feel of classic lost-world fiction, all danger, movement, and old-school wonder.

Burton returns to the hunt for the river's source, this time with airships, intrigue, and a larger sense of the plan behind the world. The mystery gets stranger as the scale gets bigger.

The Tiers send their heroes into a world where the land itself never stays still. Between shifting terrain and Lordly scheming, every step feels risky.

On a far-future Earth full of baffling relics and altered life, a long journey becomes the whole shape of the story. Farmer leans into scale, strangeness, and the pull of the unknown.

A human expedition to Mars finds a world whose religion and history raise unnerving questions for everyone involved. Farmer leans hard into faith, doubt, and first contact.

This companion volume gathers cut or suppressed Riverworld-related material and lets readers peek behind the published saga. It is mostly for fans, but the alternate angles are fascinating.

The long chase toward the headwaters and the tower reaches its climax. Burton and his allies close in on answers, but every revelation comes with a higher cost.

These John Carmody stories follow a troubled man who becomes a priest and keeps running into spiritual trouble on strange worlds. The collection blends religious argument with science fiction unease.

Sanctuary darkens further as fresh stories push deeper into the city's rivalries and buried threats. Nobody here gets to stay safely in the background for long.

This volume groups Cache from Outer Space with Rastignac the Devil and They Twinkled Like Jewels. Together they offer a solid slice of Farmer's far-future and alien imagination.

Space exploration, mystery, and high-concept science fiction all collide here. It is a dense, ambitious novel that keeps widening the reader's sense of what is really happening.

Dorothy's son flies into Oz and discovers that getting there is only the beginning. He must prove himself, help with a war, and stop the modern world from barging in behind him.

This collection gathers Farmer's swaggering, funny Greatheart Silver stories, all written in a pulpy key. It is part parody, part tribute, and full of affectionate genre noise.

Ramstan, captain of a ship that can jump instantly across space, is pulled into a war against a devastating alien threat. Farmer mixes grand adventure with menace on a planetary scale.

Farmer packs this collection with Riders of the Purple Wage and other sharp, odd, purple-tinged pieces. It is a good place to meet his more playful and satirical short fiction.

The major players finally touch the machinery behind resurrection itself. Control of life and death is within reach, but it does not belong to them alone.

This recreated version of Farmer's lost original Riverworld novel lets readers see the series before it became the series. It is familiar, different, and especially fascinating for Riverworld fans.

This collection pulls together key early stories, from The Alley Man to The God Business. It is a compact way to watch Farmer finding his voice.

These later classics show Farmer at his freer and stranger best, with Riders of the Purple Wage and The Sliced-Crosswise Only-on-Tuesday World among the highlights. Big ideas come fast here.

This collection gathers shorter adventures and ideas, including The Sliced-Crosswise Only-on-Tuesday World and The Adventures of the Three Madmen. It shows how much range Farmer had in shorter form.

On an overcrowded Earth, most people are awake only one day a week. Daybreaker Jeff Caird lives seven hidden lives, and every one of them could get him killed.

Captured by the authorities, Jeff Caird escapes before they can erase him. His flight sparks a harsher crackdown and turns the hidden daybreaker network into open prey.

Private eye Thomas Gresham Corbie works a case that drags him from Peoria's underbelly to its wealthiest rooms. Farmer makes the mystery loose, sly, and full of trickster energy.

Jeff Caird knows too much to survive quietly, and the state wants him dead. As the pressure rises, Farmer also asks what seven separate lives do to one mind.

A young Clark Savage fights in World War I, lands in a German prison camp, and meets the men who will become his closest allies. Farmer uses the prequel setup for straight-ahead pulp action.

A man undergoing therapy through the World of Tiers becomes caught in something far less safe than roleplay. The familiar universe returns with a modern angle and a dangerous new traveler.

Centered on Farmer's famous Hugo-winning title story, this collection leans into wordplay, satire, and weird social futures. It is funny, dense, and unlike almost anything else he wrote.

Jack agrees to drive the nearly mute Tappy to a clinic, then both slip into another universe. What starts as a road trip turns into a strange portal quest shaped by cosmic good, cosmic evil, and two uneasy fellow travelers.

Kickaha and Red Orc drive the series to its finish in a fight over the pocket universes and the Lords' deepest secrets. The stakes finally reach the whole structure of the Tiers.

Farmer finally writes an authorized Tarzan novel and goes straight for speed and danger. It is a jungle adventure first, but one told by someone who had spent years thinking about the ape-man.

A man is pulled into the Dungeon, a vast artificial world stitched from clashing realms, traps, and powers. Survival means learning its rules before the maze decides what to do with him.

Later stories, essays, and literary games fill this wide-ranging collection. It is looser than a greatest hits book, but that is part of the appeal.

This career-spanning selection brings together many of his essential shorter works. If you want one book that shows his range, this is a strong place to look.

A fugitive takes a false identity and disappears into a future California community built on medieval ideals. The safer the setting looks, the more dangerous the social game becomes.

The title novel sits beside stories, fragments, speeches, and essays, making this a rummaging kind of collection. It is especially good for readers who like the unfinished edges around a writer's career.

The Kilgore Trout novel shares space here with several of Farmer's pseudonymous and literary-game pieces. The book is funny, strange, and very revealing about his sense of play.

This volume pairs two Farmer pieces, Heel and The Wounded, both concerned with hurt, endurance, and human strangeness. Even at shorter length, he keeps the tone unsettling and curious.

Patricia Wildman inherits the old estate of Pemberley and walks straight into a gothic mystery. Farmer and Win Scott Eckert fold Doc Savage family lore, Holmesian hints, and menace into one eerie novel.

This collection gathers Wold Newton stories and related pieces by Farmer and others. It is the place to go if you enjoy his habit of linking famous fictional people into one family.

The Riverworld novella shares space with playful, varied shorter work from several corners of Farmer's imagination. It is a strong reminder that he was more than a novelist.

Greatheart Silver stands at the center of this pulpy collection, but the larger point is Farmer's delight in hero fiction itself. Expect swagger, parody, and affectionate mayhem.

This later Farmer tale plays with chivalric echoes, danger, and literary mischief in compact form. It feels like a smaller adventure built by a writer who still liked big games.

A disastrous oil well off the California coast starts as a regional nightmare and grows toward global catastrophe. Farmer keeps the tension practical and large-scale at the same time.

One of the far-future tales later gathered in The Cache, this story gives Farmer room for hard choices and a human will that refuses to shrink. It is leaner than some of his novels but still full of scale.

This Tarzan-centered volume shows how long and how deeply Farmer kept thinking about Burroughs's jungle lord. Fiction, speculation, and literary play all meet on the same trail.