by Janet Morris (1981)
Synopsis - The Kerrion Consuls... From their luxurious headquarters on Draconia they reign over a great merchant empire. Their wealth is fabulous, their power is unlimited, their sensuality is legendary... The girl Shebat should be their ruler. Rescued from exile in her primitive homeland, she returns to Daconis with the husband who loves her and loves power even more. Then a woman’s vengeance strikes the usurpers, and the corruption and madness that seethe behind the family’s power erupt in civil war...
Philip José Farmer
It's the 35th century where a person is given one day a week to live, work and play and the other six days remain in suspended animation. There are "daybreakers", outlaws, who live seven different lives and Jeff Caird is one of these who finds his life in danger.
Kilgore Trout
The controversial Kilgore Trout episode was neither the first nor the last time Farmer would impishly slip out of his own skin and assume the persona of another author. In Venus on the Half-Shell and Others, Philip Jose Farmer transforms himself into fictional personalities as compelling as they are diverse: Cordwainer Bird, Paul Chapin, Rod Keen, Harry "Bunny" Manders, Leo Queequeg Tincrowdor, John H. Watson, M.D. and even the real-life author William S. Burroughs.
(by) Alan Dean Foster
Ethan Frome Fortune had been on Tran-ky-ky long enough... too long, in fact. He wanted out. He wanted to get back to business. He wanted to go home. So he and his sidekick Skua September headed their giant Icerigger toward Brass Monkey, the busy off-world trading post where they were sure they could book passage home. But when they discovered that their Tran friends were being victimized by ruthless profiteers, they decided to stick around and organize the isolated city-states into a functioning confederation... a governing body that the Commonwealth Council would have to recognize and protect. The Tran had enemies - deadly ones, at that - and Skua September and Ethan Fortune quickly found themselves back aboard the icerigger Slanderscree, leaving a crimson wake on the frozen seas and hurtling toward the most chilling encounters either had ever known!
Roger Zelazny
Across a United States all but destroyed by war and characterized by violent storms and giant bats and snakes, men embark on a seemingly doomed mission to deliver an antiserum to plague-ridden Boston.