From the stories that led to the creation of his best-selling Riverworld and Dayworld novels, to more unusual selections like "Uproar in Acheron" (a western-cum-fantasy), "The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod" (a story which works as both literary pastiche and homage), or break-all-the-rules fiction like "The Henry Miller Dawn Patrol" (a Farmer favorite which was first published in Playboy magazine), it's all here. With a total of 20 different stories and one Farmer-penned introduction that add up to nearly two hundred thousand words, The Best of Philip José Farmer is, hands down, the finest collection of Farmer stories ever assembled. Contents: The Lovers (1952) Sail On! Sail On! (1952) Mother (1953) The God Business (1954) The Alley Man (1959) My Sister's Brother (1960) Uproar in Acheron (1961) The King of Beasts (1964) The Shadow of Space (1967) Riders of the Purple Wage or the Great Gavage (1967) Don't Wash the Carats: A Polytropical Paramyth (1968) The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod (1968) The Oögenesis of Bird City (1970) The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World (1971) Sketches among the Ruins of My Mind (1973) After King Kong Fell (1973) The Henry Miller Dawn Patrol (1977) Riverworld (1966) The Making of Revelation, Part I (1980) One Down, One to Go (1990)