Rastignac The Devil

by Philip José Farmer

Overview

On a human colony around another star, there are two other sentient hominids: reptiles, and amphibians. All three species wear living cloaks, called skins, which allow them telepathy and empathy with every other skin-wearer, and which provides a conscience, complete with electric shocks for bad behavior. Rastignac wants to overthrow the skins.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781633842496
Publisher:	Wilder Publications, Inc.
Publication date:	08/03/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Philip José Farmer (1918 - 2009) was an American author known for his science fiction, fantasy novels and short stories. Farmer is best known for his sequences of novels, especially the World of Tiers (1965-93) and Riverworld (1971-83) series. He is noted for the pioneering use of sexual and religious themes in his work, his fascination for, and reworking of, the lore of celebrated pulp heroes and occasional tongue-in-cheek pseudonymous works written as if by fictional characters. Farmer often mixed real and classic fictional characters and worlds and real and fake authors as epitomized by his Wold Newton family group of books. These tie all classic fictional characters together as real people and blood relatives resulting from an alien conspiracy. Such works as The Other Log of Phileas Fogg (1973) and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life (1973) are early examples of literary mashup.