![]() ![]() ![]() Farmer then produced two novels, both of which were accepted for publication but neither of which actually saw print at the time, the first due to the folding of Startling Stories (it eventually appeared as Dare ). "Rastignac the Devil" (May 1954 Fantastic Universe) was a further sequel. His second short novel, A Woman a Day (June 1953 Startling as "Moth and Rust" rev 1960 vt The Day of Timestop 1968 vt Timestop! 1970), was billed as a sequel to The Lovers but bore little relation to the earlier story. After publishing such excellent short stories as "Sail On! Sail On!" (December 1952 Startling) (see Flat Earth) and "Mother" (April 1953 Thrilling Wonder), Farmer became a full-time writer. It concerned Xenobiology, Parasitism and Sex, an explosive mixture, certainly for the Genre SF of that era transgressive mixtures of this sort would feature repeatedly in Farmer's best work. Although originally rejected by John W Campbell Jr of Astounding Science-Fiction and H L Gold of Galaxy Science Fiction, it gained instant acclaim when it did appear, and won Farmer a 1953 Hugo for Most Promising New Author. ![]() A part-time student at Bradley University, he gained a BA in English in 1950, and two years later burst onto the sf scene with his novella The Lovers (August 1952 Startling exp 19). ![]() (1918-2009) US author whose active career extended over half a century, though he was a comparatively late starter as an author, and his first story, "O'Brien and Obrenov" for Adventure in March 1946, was nonfantastic and promised little. ![]()
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