Thanks for the info. This is the second time I heard of contests running afoul of their intended goal. I'm glad he eventually got it out there, but it sounds kinda sad it took so long.
Chaeya --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, "ravenadal" <ravena...@...> wrote: > > By the way, are all of you aware that Jose Phillip Farmer passed away in > February 2009 at the age of 91? Somehow this didn't show up on my radar > screen. > > The Riverworld series originated in a novel, "Owe for the Flesh," written in > one month in 1952 as a contest entry. It won the contest, but the book was > left unpublished and orphaned when the prize money was misappropriated, and > Farmer nearly gave up writing altogether. The original manuscript of the > novel was lost, but years later Farmer reworked the material into the > Riverworld magazine stories mentioned above. Eventually, a copy of a revised > version of the original novel surfaced in a box in a garage and was published > as River of Eternity by Phantasia Press in 1983. Farmer's Introduction to > this edition gives the details of how it all happened. > > ~rave! >
