The Alley God
Philip José Farmer demonstrates, in these three short novels, the ability that has made him one of America's best-selling science fiction authors. He succeeds with remarkable skill in blending excitement and humor with sheer imagination in this splendid demonstration of his talent. ”The Alley Man”: the last living Neanderthal Man, grubbing out a living from the garbage heaps that covers the earth. ”The Captain's Daughter”: unknown illness strikes aboard a spaceship and the ship's doctor discovers a strange parasite that lives on sexual excitement. ”The God Business”: things go wrong in a modern Olympus and the U.S. Marines find themselves defeated by nudists with water pistols and a strange superbaby.
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Philip José Farmer
Philip José Farmer (1918–2009) was an American author, principally known for his science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories. He spent much of his life in Peoria, Illinois.
Farmer is best known for his Riverworld series and the earlier World of Tiers series. He is noted for his fascination for and reworking of the lore of legendary pulp heroes, and occasional tongue-in-cheek pseudonyminous works written as if by fictional characters.
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