![]() Strange Relations: Five novelettes of unbounded imagination telling of strange-and often deadly-encounters between human and alien. ![]() It shocked and fascinated readers at the time. ![]() and unless he could escape, he would be the guest of honor at a fertility rite which would conclude with his very unpleasant death. Philip José Farmer’s novella The Lovers (1952) is, without doubt, historically important for the development of the SF genre as it introduced a transgressive mix of sex (mostly implied), unusual xenobiology, and colonial critique. He was crowned the “Sunhero,” which was a very dubious honor. A standard sized paperback Good used condition paperback with light edge wear and light. But Yarrow’s lifelong conditioning was no match for his strange attraction to Jeanette.įlesh: The starship captain had been on a voyage lasting 800 years, and returned to find an Earth ruled by revived ancient pagan rituals. For sale a copy of Strange Relations by Philip Jose Farmer. Unconsecrated contact with any female was forbidden to Yarrow-and love for an alien female was an unspeakable abomination. Sent by the religious tyranny of a future Earth to the planet Ozagen, Hal Yarrow met Jeanette, an apparently human fugitive, hiding in ancient ruins built by a long-vanished race. ![]() ![]() The Lovers: One of the most controversial and groundbreaking novels in science fiction. Two complete novels and five novelettes that broke new ground in science fiction and established Philip Jose Farmer as a master of the genre: ![]()
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