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Author:	Philip José Farmer as Kilgore Trout
Title:	Venus On The Half-Shell
Publisher:	Dell
Country:	USA
Date:	Apr 1975
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction, Humour
Cat#:	6149
Total Editions:	2
Rating:	7.0 Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	3 Own
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David Whiteley ● 4th Aug 2022		Added back cover.



23skidoo 14th Jun 2020		Submitted correction on the author name as this should be listed until Farmer's name with Kilgore Trout as pen name.



ppint. 21st Nov 2017		Rated 7/10 mildly humorous, mildly erotic (yr hmbl srppnt. supposes) account of the sexual odyssey of a pretty strictly hetero male human spaceman amongst an assortment of mildly modified humano-form, mildly alien, also pretty strictly heterosexual societies. it incorporates vonnegut's short piece in "god bless you, mr. rosewater", q.v., quoting from a then-unwritten novel by his fictional best-selling but permanently bread-lined sf author. he undergoes occasional body modifications, mostly/more-or-less voluntarily, to fit in with his hostesses (as it were), the most interesting (?) - at least memorable - of which is the extension by a couple of more-or-less consciously-controllédly steerable yards (or metres) of his penis, after the body pattern of all (undisfigured) men on the particular planet. the cover of the 12/1974 issue of the magazine of fantasy & science fiction, q.v. featuring the first half of the two-part serialisation of "venus" is a (rather more interesting than that by gadino on the star uk p/b and the dell merkin mmpb original book publication) painting by ron walotsky quoting the boticelli painting. part two was in f&sf 1/1975, q.v.. 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



ppint. 20th Nov 2017		author is philip josé farmer, q.v., using kurt vonnegut's fictional sf writer's name - with vonnegut's permission. ill-informed and inaccurate criticism of vonnegut for this novel led to his withdrawal of permission for further use of the by-line by farmer, who had intended to turn more of vonnegut's fictional author's titles into real novels



David Whiteley ● 11th Aug 2020		1st published in two parts in consecutive issues of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. For part 1 v47, #6 see here: https://www.45worlds.com/magazine/issue/the-magazine-of-fantasy-and-science-fiction-47-6. And for part 2 v48, #1 see here: https://www.45worlds.com/magazine/issue/the-magazine-of-fantasy-and-science-fiction-48-1 (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Philip José Farmer - Venus On The Half-Shell - Star - Paperback - UK - 0352398469 (1976)