The Green Odyssey

MP3 Audio CD. Go On A Great Adventure On A Faraway Planet In Philip Jose Farmer?s The Green Odyssey

The 1940s and 1950s have been prolific for the science fiction genre, and one great example in this regard is Philip Jose Farmer. In his widely acknowledged book, The Green Odyssey, we follow a spaceman who ends up in the wrong place and his adventures that result from there on.

The main character of the novel is Alan Green, an unfortunate spaceman who ends up shipwrecked on a strange planet. Despite the fact that this planet is inhabited by humans much more primitive he is captured and sold to a Duchess as a sex slave. He also marries a slave woman besides others and with which he shares his time until he finds out that there are other 2 escaped spacemen on the planet. He escapes and goes on to find them. The only problem is that he has to cross an ocean, only that it is not a real ocean with water, but a great plain he will have to sail through. He will sail through this great plain on a ship that uses some wheels that are shaped like rolling pins.

The adventure in this novel is pretty straightforward, with many satires and weird happenings. Eventually Alan Green?s slave wife will start following him along with her children, the couple will meet barbarians, pirates and all sorts of beings trying to stand in their way. Besides the vast number of weird yet conventional characters for a pulp fiction we also meet a deux machina named Lady Luck, who is actually a black cat.

Farmer?s style of writing mixes naivety with sophistication as he puts Alan Green into some of the weirdest adventures possible. Readers will find a great deal of analogies and satires to modern society in Farmer?s only novel which contains no sexual themes.