Author: Glen T. Brock
Date:   02-25-09 17:45

Hello folks,

Although I never met him I did read some of his work, including RIDERS OF THE PURPLE WAGE, which is in Asimov's anthology THE HUGO WINNERS. Rather than to mourn his death I celebrate his life. Farmer broke some of the strongest totems in science fiction when his novel THE LOVERS was published. His 'pornographic' novels about Doc Savage and Tarzan are very rare collector's items. I remember a conversation I had with Joe Green, who mentioned him as a mentor, as he discussed his latest wip about the difference between sex and love in a science fiction setting. Sex is a chance encounter of pheromes but love is a sharing of points of view. Or something like that. It was at Knoxville and a pool had yet to turn red. Or something like that too.

Glen T. Brock