Greatheart Silver and Other Pulp Heroes

Philip Jose Farmer had a life-long love affair with the pulps he read in his youth. They influenced nearly everything he wrote, but in the 1970s he paid special tribute to them with several stories. Greatheart Silver and Other Pulp Heroes collects these stories for the first time in hardcover! The first three stories -- "Greatheart Silver," "The Return of Greatheart Silver," and "Greatheart Silver in The First Command" -- originally appeared in Byron Priess' Weird Heroes series and have been collected before in the trade paperback Greatheart Silver. These tales are Philip Jose Farmer at his most irreverent. The next two items, "The Grant-Robeson Papers" and "Savage Shadow," also appeared in Weird Heroes and set up a fantastic presmise that was never fulfilled and will leave you wanting more. The final tale, "Skinburn," appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and is the most sci-fi of these stories, while still giving a nod to the pulps.