Strange Relations

by Philip Jose Farmer

Copyright 2005 by Philip Jose Farmer. All Rights Reserved.

Categories:  Contemporary  Science Fiction

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Three books by a grand master of science fiction—complete in one volume.

The Lovers: One of the most controversial and groundbreaking novels in science fiction. Sent by the religious tyranny of a future Earth to the planet Ozagen, Hal Yarrow met Jeanette, an apparently human fugitive, hiding in ancient ruins built by a long-vanished race. Unconsecrated contact with any female was forbidden to Yarrow—and love for an alien female was an unspeakable sin. But Yarrow's lifelong conditioning was no match for his strange attraction to Jeanette.

Flesh:The starship captain had made the mistake of landing on a forgotten planet colonized centuries ago by believers in ancient pagan rituals. Unless he could escape, he would be made part of a fertility rite which would conclude with his very unpleasant death.

Strange Relations: Five novelettes of unbounded imagination telling of strange encounters between man and alien.

Extended Copyright Information

Copyright 2005 by Philip Jose Farmer.

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.

Previously published by Baen Books.

The Lovers copyright 1961, 1979 by Philip José Farmer. (Brief magazine version appeared in Startling Stories, 1952, copyright 1952 Better Publications, Inc.) Flesh copyright 1968 by Philip José Farmer. (Flesh is a revised and expanded version of a novel by the same name first published by Galaxy Publishing Corp, copyright 1960.) Strange Relations copyright 1960 by Philip José Farmer. ["Mother" first appeared in Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1953; "Daughter" first appeared in Thrilling Wonder Stories, Winter 1954; "Father" first appeared in Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1955; "Son" (originally titled "Queen of the Deep") first appeared in Argosy, March 1954; "My Sister's Brother" (originally titled "The Strange Birth") first appeared in Satellite, June 1959.]

Cover art by Clyde Caldwell.

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

Opening Lines (Experimental)

"I've got to get out," Hal Yarrow could hear someone muttering from a great distance. "There must be a way out."
He woke up with a start, and he realized that he had been the one talking. Moreover, what he had said as he emerged from his dream had no connection at all to it. His half-waking words ...

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