<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Philip José Farmer's<strong><em> Up from the Bottomless Pit</em></strong>, originally written in the late 1970s with the working title <em>The Dragon's Breath</em>, is a near-mainstream novel about the ultimate ecological nightmare. Set in an alternate/near future 1970s, <strong><em>Up from the Bottomless Pit </em></strong>tells of a world so ravenous in its desire for oil that it has thrown caution to the wind. Using an experimental deep-water laser drill off the California coast, humankind burns a hole through the ocean floor only to unleash a deadly torrent that initially threatens the greater Los Angeles area, but quickly escalates to a catastrophe of worldwide proportions with the potential to wipe out all life on the planet.</p><p>The novel wasn't quite what Del Rey was looking for at the time, so Phil instead turned in <em>Dark is the Sun </em>(set fifteen billion years in the future). Fast forward to 2005 and the team here at Meteor House was launching the fanzine <em>Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip José Farmer</em>. We serialized the novel over the first 10 quarterly issues between 2005 and 2007. At $11 per issue, it cost over $100 to read the novel. In 2007, Subterranean Press published <em>Up from the Bottomless Pit and Other Stories, </em>collecting all of Phil's material from <em>Farmerphile </em>in a deluxe limited edition of only 250 copies. But, at $125, it again cost over $100 to read this book.</p><p>This is the Farmer novel you've heard about but never got to read! Now, available for the first time ever in a trade paperback edition, featuring cover art by Keith Howell, a foreword by <em>Farmerphile</em> editor Christopher Paul Carey, and an introduction by award winning environmental writer Sharman Apt Russell!</p>
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