Flesh
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
A bold and provocative work of science fiction, Flesh chronicles the return of Commander Peter Stagg to Earth after an 800-year interstellar voyage, only to find a civilization utterly transformed by a fertility-worshipping matriarchal religion. Farmer presents a future society where Stagg is ritually transformed into a living embodiment of a stag god, compelled to fulfill a sacred and carnal role across the land in a series of increasingly surreal encounters. Written with Farmer's characteristic audacity and dark wit, the novel argues that human civilization, stripped of its technological veneer, reverts to primal myth and ritual with startling ease. Flesh illustrates the author's lifelong fascination with sexuality, religion, and the boundaries of taboo in speculative fiction, pushing the genre into territory few writers of his era dared to tread. It remains a landmark of transgressive science fiction — provocative, imaginative, and utterly unforgettable.
Author: Philip José Farmer
Format: Hardback
Published: 1969, Rapp + Whiting
Genre: Science fiction
Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
A bold and provocative work of science fiction, Flesh chronicles the return of Commander Peter Stagg to Earth after an 800-year interstellar voyage, only to find a civilization utterly transformed by a fertility-worshipping matriarchal religion. Farmer presents a future society where Stagg is ritually transformed into a living embodiment of a stag god, compelled to fulfill a sacred and carnal role across the land in a series of increasingly surreal encounters. Written with Farmer's characteristic audacity and dark wit, the novel argues that human civilization, stripped of its technological veneer, reverts to primal myth and ritual with startling ease. Flesh illustrates the author's lifelong fascination with sexuality, religion, and the boundaries of taboo in speculative fiction, pushing the genre into territory few writers of his era dared to tread. It remains a landmark of transgressive science fiction — provocative, imaginative, and utterly unforgettable.