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1966 novel by Philip José Farmer
Night of Light Cover of the first edition
Author Philip José Farmer Language English Genre Science Fiction Publisher Berkley Medallion Books Publication date
June 1966 Website philipjosefarmer.com
Night of Light science fiction novel by American writer Philip José Farmer . A shorter version was published in June 1957 in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [ 1] Berkley Medallion with copyright reserved to the author. It has been recently reprinted by Subterranean Press in the collection The Other in the Mirror . It has been cited as an influence on the Jimi Hendrix psychedelic rock song "Purple Haze " (1967).[ 2]
Once every seven years, a world in orbit around a binary star is bathed in a bizarre radiance that rearranges physical reality. Most of the planet's inhabitants choose to sleep for the entire two-week period, often using a special medicine to do so. Only mystics, newcomers, and devotees to the planet's bizarre religion are willing to stay awake and endure the two weeks of brilliance, where things materialize out of thin air. According to their religion, people undergo an unpredictable change, and many actually die. The good become better, and the bad become worse. One woman's husband metamorphosed into a tree. Another person was chased down streets by statues that came to life. But facing the brilliance is also a rite of passage if you must develop as a being inclined towards acts of goodness, or a being inclined towards acts of evil. It is during those two weeks that the good are pitted against the bad, and it is also a time when their living god must face his successor.
To help in the conversion effort, Catholic missionaries have been sent to the planet to help reconcile the planet's religion with their own universal faith. The only problem is that the planet's religion appears to be spreading across the stars.
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Strange Relations (1960)The Alley God (1962)The Celestial Blueprint: And Other Stories (1962)Down in the Black Gang (1971)The Book of Philip José Farmer, or the Wares of Simple Simon’s Custard Pie and Space Man (1973)Riverworld and Other Stories (1979)Riverworld War: The Suppressed Fiction of Philip José Farmer (1980)The Cache (1981)Father to the Stars (1981)Stations of the Nightmare (1982)The Purple Book (1982)The Classic Philip José Farmer, 1952-1964 (1984)The Classic Philip José Farmer, 1964-1973 (1984)The Grand Adventure (1984)Riders of the Purple Wage (1992)Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe (2005)The Best of Philip José Farmer (2006)Strange Relations (2006)Pearls from Peoria (2006)Up from the Bottomless Pit and Other Stories Venus on the Half-Shell and Others The Other in the Mirror (2009)The Worlds of Philip Jose Farmer: Protean Dimensions (2010)Up the Bright River (2010)The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 2: Of Dust and Soul (2011)The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 3: Portraits of a Trickster (2012)Tales of the World Newton Universe (2013) Stories
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