FARMER, PHILIP JOSE — Strange Relations

New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1960. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB. This is a mass market paperback book. Ballantine Book number 391 K, with a price of 35 cents. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. There is a bit of fading to the spine of the book. The top front corner of the book cover has some ligh creasing. The text pages are clean and bright, but there is some light, generalized toning throughout. "The short story collection Strange Relations (1960) was a notable event in the genre. He was one of three persons to whom Robert A. Heinlein dedicated Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) , a novel which explored sexual freedom as one of its primary themes. Moreover, Fire and the Night (1962) is a mainstream novel about an interracial romance; it features sociological and psychosexual twists. In Night of Light (1966) , he devised an alien race where aliens have only one mother but several fathers, perhaps because of an unusual or untenable physical position that cannot be reached or continued by two individuals acting alone. Both Image of the Beast and the sequel Blown from 1968 to 1969 explore group sex, interplanetary travel, and interplay between fictional figures like Herald Childe and real people like Forry Ackerman. In the World of Tiers series he explores Oedipal themes. In 1982, Farmer acknowledged that most of literary critic Leslie Fiedler's "Freudian" analysis of his work is valid, but insisted that "there is also much that is Jungian and Reichian in my works". " (from Wikipedia). Very Good .