Book description
Escaping the religious tyranny of a 31st-century Earth by a fluke
assignment to the planet of Ozagen, linguist Hal Yarrow found that the
worst of Earth had followed him - Pornsen, his personal Guardian Angel,
vigilant for any evidence of sin or wrong thinking.
Conditioned by a lifetime of submission, Yarrow would have accepted
Pornsen's constant spying as an unpleasant necessity, had it not been
for Jeanette, the beautiful but dangerously different fugitive he found
hiding in the ancient ruins... 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.
