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Archive Home > 2009 > February > 28 > Philip Jose Farmer, 91, was prolific sci-fi writer

Philip Jose Farmer, 91, was prolific sci-fi writer

By Gerald Jonas / The Bulletin
February 28, 2009

Philip Jose Farmer, a prolific and popular science-fiction writer who shocked readers in the 1950s by depicting sex with aliens and challenged conventional pieties of the genre with caustic fables set on bizarre worlds of his own devising, died Wednesday. He was 91 and lived in Peoria, Ill.

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