Venus on the Half-Shell

Cutchogue, New York: Buccaneer Books Very Good condition. NO fading. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Previously issued as a Dell paperback and serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. This hardcover reissue includes an apparently ficticious biographical sketch of "Kilgore Trout." The story is written in imitation of K. Vonnegut (per note in the Library of Congrss catalogue). Bound in the original tan cloth, stamped in bright/shiny gold on the spine, and crimson metallic embossed on the front cover. From Wikipedia: "Venus on the Half-Shell is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip José Farmer, writing pseudonymously as "Kilgore Trout," a fictional recurring character in many of the novels of Kurt Vonnegut. This book first appeared as a fictitious "excerpt" -- attributed to Trout (though written by Vonnegut) -- in the ninth chapter of Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965). With Vonnegut's permission, Farmer expanded the fragment into an entire standalone novel (including, as an in-joke, a scene that incorporates all of Vonnegut's original text). Farmer's story was first published in two parts beginning in the December 1974 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. The plot, in which Earth is destroyed by cosmic bureaucrats doing routine maintenance and the sole human survivor goes on a quest to find the "Definitive Answer to the Ultimate Question," was an inspiration for the plot of the later Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.". 1974/1975 copyright. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket, as issued. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. 207pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.