Book description
Kickaha, a freedom-seeking wanderer from the planet Earth, meets his
archenemy, the most powerful of the decadent interstellar lords, Lord
Red Orc, in a final battle that will determine the fate of the
universes. Philip José Farmer was born in Indiana in 1918. Although he
once said he resolved to become a writer in the fourth grade, it wasn't
until 1952 that his first SF was published - the novella 'The Lovers',
which won him the Hugo Award for Most Promising New Author. Although
best known for his Riverworld sequence, beginning with the Hugo
Award-winning To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Farmer also pioneered the use
of sexual and religious themes in SF and wrote several novels reworking
the lore of celebrated pulp heroes such as Tarzan and Doc Savage. He
also wrote the tongue-in-cheek Venus on the Half-Shell using the
pseudonym 'Kilgore Trout', a character who appeared in several Kurt
Vonnegut novels. Philip José Farmer won three Hugos, a World Fantasy
Award for Life Achievement and the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master
Award. He died in 2009.
