Book description
Clark Savage, Jr, was raised from birth to become the perfect human
specimen. Almost from birth, a team of scientists assembled by his
father trained his mind and body to near-superhuman abilities, giving
him great strength and endurance, a photographic memory, a mastery of
the martial arts, and vast knowledge of the sciences. The result: Doctor
Clark Savage, Jr. - physician, surgeon, scientist, adventurer, inventor,
explorer and researcher - best known to the world as , the man of
Bronze. Doc Savage. Philip José Farmer, biographer of Lord Greystoke
(better known to the world as Tarzan), has turned his superb research
and narrative skills to one of the most famous heroes of our time.
Philip José Farmer (1918 - 2009) 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.
