Venus On The Half-Shell and Others - Contents

Contents

• "Foreword" by Tom Wode Bellman
• "Introduction: More Real Than Life Itself: Philip José Farmer's Fictional-Author Period" by Christopher Paul Carey

• "Why and How I Became Kilgore Trout"
• Venus on the Half-Shell (a novel originally published under the byline Kilgore Trout)
• "The Obscure Life and Times of Kilgore Trout"
• "The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod"
• "The Problem of the Sore Bridge--Among Others" as by Harry Manders
• "The Volcano" (originally published under the byline Paul Chapin)
• "Osiris on Crutches" as by Leo Queequeg Tincrowdor
• "The Phantom of the Sewers" (originally published as "It's the Queen of Darkness, Pal" by Rod Reen)
• "A Hole in Hell" as by Dane Helstrom
• "The Last Rise of Nick Adams" (originally published as "The Impotency of Bad Karma" under the byline Cordwainer Bird)
• The Adventure of the Peerless Peer as by John H. Watson
• "Philip José Farmer as Fictional Author: A Chronological Bibliography"
• "The Impotency of Bad Karma" (only available in the Lettered leatherbound edition)