The City Beyond Play

2007 Farmer, Philip José (1918-2009) and Danny Adams. The City Beyond Play. Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing with an “Introduction” by Chris Roberson (v-viii) and an “Afterword: by Tracy Knight (111-12). viii + 112 pp. The novel was begun by Farmer and put aside and then completed by Adams, his great-nephew. PSt

In a eutopian future where everyone can have whatever they want, an area has been set aside where people have recreated a cleaned-up middle ages. Rather than go through the therapy required in the larger society, a murderer chooses exile in the medieval area, which has fallen away from the eutopian vision of its founder. The novel is largely adventure.