Traitor to the Living
Traitor to the Living (1973) is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip José Farmer. The story follows Herald Childe, a private detective. Childe is also the lead character in two prior Farmer novels published as pornography by Essex House.[1] In this non-erotic novel, the lead character is clearly Herald Childe, but it follows the events of a never-written third book which left Childe amnesiac.
 First edition cover | |
| Author | Philip José Farmer |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Hans Ulrich & Ute Osterwalder |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Herald Childe |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Ballantine Books |
Publication date | 1973 |
| Media type | |
| ISBN | 0-345-23613-0 |
| OCLC | 2210396 |
| Preceded by | Blown: or Sketches Among the Ruins of My Mind |
| Followed by | Image of the Beast |
Reception
Lester del Rey found the novel to be "fascinating, and a good adventure thriller."[2] Edgar L. Chapman described it as "a novel of serious intrigue, quite conventional in its treatment of sex," but faulted it because it "not only lacks humor, but does not create much suspense either."[3]
gollark: Couldn't you just PR it to not not do that?
gollark: You can, as far as I know, emulate pcall-type stuff with temporary coroutines (which is very hacky but oh well), and those would probably not be subject to stack stuff.
gollark: Maybe you could abuse coroutines instead of pcall.
gollark: In what is arguably just *one* of my many poor design decisions, potatOS applies squid's stack trace thing globally by overriding (x)pcall, which really makes `debug.traceback` output less convenient.
gollark: But I don't use it because neither is very good.
References
- "Farmer, Philip Jose", The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, St. Martin's, 1995
- "Reading Room", If, April 1974, p.42
- Edgar L. Chapman, The Magic Labyrinth of Philip Jose Farmer, Whitehall, 1984, p.29
Sources
- Traitor to the Living (1973) ISBN 0-345-23613-0
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