Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Bloodworld by Laurence M. Janifer Laurence M. Janifer. Laurence Mark Janifer (born Laurence Mark Harris on March 17, 1933 in Brooklyn , New York City ; died on July 10, 2002 in Oakland , California ) was an American science fiction writer. contents. Janifer was the son of photographer Bernard N. Harris and Hilda Harris, née Warshauer. From 1950 to 1953 he studied at the City College of New York , after which he was a musician and worked in various areas of the entertainment industry. From 1952 to 1957 he was employed by Scott Meredith's literary agency, as well as the editor of various detective and SF magazines. After 1964 he was a freelance writer. In 1962 Harris adopted the name Janifer after it was discovered that Harris was a name assigned to the Polish grandfather by an immigration officer and that the original Janifer or similar had been, suggesting the origin of the Polish-Russian Janów. He had already started publishing SF stories in 1953. He is known for his series, written in collaboration with Randall Garrett under the community pseudonym Mark Phillips, about the secret agent Kenneth Malone, who has to deal with various opponents who are gifted with psi . His most ambitious work is the novel Power (1974), which deals with the politics of rebellion. He used numerous pseudonyms. He published a number of erotica under the names Alfred Blake, Andrew Blake and Barbara Wilson. Janifer was married four times, namely to Sylvia Siegel (1955–1958), Sue Blugerman (1960–1962), Rae Montor (1966–1968) and Beverly Goldberg, whom he married in 1969 and from whom he separated in 1984. From this last marriage he had two daughters and a son who died young. Laurence Janifer. Laurence M. Janifer (born Laurence M. Harris ; March 17, 1933 - July 10, 2002) was an American science fiction author, with a career spanning over 50 years. Contents. Biography Selected bibliography As Laurence Janifer as Larry M. Harris as Alfred Blake as Andrew Blake as Barbara Wilson as Mark Phillips (joint pseudonym with Randall Garrett) Ghost Writer External links. Biography. Janifer was born in Brooklyn, New York with the surname of Harris , but in 1963 took the original surname of his Polish grandfather. Many of his early stories appeared under the "Larry M. Harris" byline. Though his first published work was a short story in Cosmos magazine in 1953, his career as a writer can be said to have started in 1959 when he began writing for Astounding and Galaxy Science Fiction . He co-wrote the first novel in the "Psi-Power" series: Brain Twister , written with Randall Garrett under the joint pseudonym Mark Phillips. The novel was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1960, and published in book form in 1962. Janifer's best known work is the "Survivor" series, comprising five novels and many short stories. The series follows the career of Gerald Knave as he visits (and survives to tell the tale of) planets on the outskirts of the civilized galaxy. In addition to his career as a novelist and short story author, Janifer was an editor for Scott Meredith Literary Agency; editor/managing editor of various detective and science fiction publications; film reviewer for several magazines; and a talented pianist. Selected bibliography. As Laurence Janifer. Slave Planet , Pyramid Publications, 1963. The Wonder War , Pyramid Publications, 1963. You Sane Men , Lancer Books, 1964, reprinted as Bloodworld , 1969. The Woman without a Name , Signet, 1966. (Editor) Masters' Choice: The Best Science-Fiction Stories of All Time Chosen by the Masters of Science-Fiction , Simon & Schuster, 1966. The Final Fear , Belmont Books, 1967. A Piece of Martin Cann , Belmont Books, 1968. Impossible? , Belmont Books, 1968. Target: Terra (With S. J. Treibich), Ace Books, 1968. The High Hex (With S. J. Treibich), Ace Books, 1969. The Wagered World (With S. J. Treibich), Ace Books, 1969. You Can't Escape , Lancer Books, 1969. Power , Dell, 1975. Survivor , Ace Books, 1977. Knave in Hand , Ace Books, 1979. Reel , Doubleday, 1983. Knave and the Game: A Collection of Short Stories , Doubleday, 1987. The Counterfeit Heinlein , Wildside Press, 2001. Alienist , Wildside Press, 2001. Two , Borgo Press, 2003. as Larry M. Harris. The Pickled Poodles , Random House, 1959. Pagan Passions (With Randall Garrett), Beacon-Galaxy, Galaxy novel No. 34, 1960. The Protector , Random House, 1960. as Alfred Blake. The Bed and I! , Intimate Books, 1962. Faithful for Eight Hours , Beacon Press, 1963. as Andrew Blake. I Deal in Desire , Boudoir, 1962. Sex Swinger , Beacon Press, 1963. Love Hostess , Beacon Press, 1963. as Barbara Wilson. The Pleasures We Know , Lancer Books, 1964. The Velvet Embrace , Lancer Books, 1965. as Mark Phillips (joint pseudonym with Randall Garrett) Brain Twister , Pyramid Publications, (1962). The Impossibles , Pyramid Publications, 1963, 2nd edition, 1966. Supermind , Pyramid Publications, (1963). Ghost Writer. Ken Murray's Giant Joke Book , Ace Books, 1957. The Henry Morgan Joke Book , Avon, 1958. Jeff Harris, The Foot in My Mouth , Caravan Book, 1958. External links. Works by Laurence M. Janifer at Project Gutenberg Works by or about Laurence Janifer at Internet Archive Works by Laurence Janifer at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) Works by Larry M. Harris at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) Laurence M. Janifer at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. BNF: cb12614598k(data) GND: 1213152046 ISNI: 0000 0000 8263 5034 LCCN: n82220974 NLG: 85412 SNAC: w60d3n0z VIAF: 72753663 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n82220974. Related Research Articles. Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. 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When in 1965 Lancer published Laurence Janifer's You Sane Men , they matched its hyperbolic come-on text ("the most shocking novel you will ever read") with a restrained, even arty, cover illustration attributed by isfdb to Howard Winters. But when they republished it in 1968 they changed the title to Bloodworld and slapped on it an amateurish and embarrassing cover illo also attributed by isfdb to Howard Winters. The colors are bad, the composition is bad, and the artist apparently has no confidence in his ability to paint faces. ugh. While the cover of Bloodworld seems designed to signal that the book is an exploitation piece, the first few pages of the volume indicate Janifer took this work quite seriously. There is a heartfelt dedication to editors C. V. J. Anderson and Larry T. Shaw, and a Rosemary I can't quickly identify (wife, maybe?), and two epigraphs from Dostoevsky suggesting that mental illnesses are the product of the society in which their sufferer's live, and that hell is being unable to love. You Sane Men/Bloodworld comes to us as a memoir typed by a man from a unique planetary society who is in the custody of scientists (whom he addresses as "Doctors," "you balanced men" and "you sane men") of a different society, the multi-system space empire or federation known as The Comity. From the first pages our narrator, named Jo, assures us that his world is very different from those of the Comity, but also that he is "no savage, nor a villain, nor a monster," though the Doctors may think him such. The thing that makes Jo's planet (to which, we readers are soon informed, he can never return) so unique is that it was colonized by people with some kind of mental disorder or perversion who left the Comity several generations ago because it was difficult or impossible for them to legally satisfy their outre desires within the Comity. The striking feature of Jo's planet, the center of their culture, is the many brothels known as "remand houses" where people go to torture slaves. In an early scene we observe twenty-year-old Jo, bitter after being scolded humiliatingly by his mother, go to his favorite remand house, request a young woman who looks like his mother, and in a private metal room burn this slave girl with a hot poker before raping her. (The burning is pretty explicitly described, the rape sort of just gestured at.) From the start of the novel we are aware that Jo's world, a relatively low-tech society whose economy is based on slavery, is in a revolutionary situation, with local uprisings overthrowing local authorities and the governing class of Jo's own town haltingly trying to figure out how to deal with the crisis should it come to their city. Jo learns that a bunch of young people in his own municipality have decided to overthrow the Council, which is made up mostly of old people, and take power for themselves. Forced to pick a side, Jo joins those his own age, turning on his own parents (both are Councilmembers) in part because he thinks under the new order, or in the chaos of civil war, he will be able to liberate from the remand house a slave woman he has fallen in love with, Elaine. (Elaine is not the woman who looks like Jo's mother.) Jo never tortures Elaine, but instead talks to and treats her like a lover (or at least what he thinks a lover acts like in this twisted society.) The effort to overthrow the Council is only in its nascent stages when the murder of a free woman shakes the city. Murders are so rare on this orderly planet, which until recently was characterized by obedience and a respect for privacy, that the city has no police force. Jo's father is chosen by the Council to solve the case, and Jo is enlisted by his father to help in the investigation; he is charged with questioning people he knows among the rebellious youth movement and at the remand houses. Jo learns that the murder victim liked to burn slave women with acid, and Elaine was one of the women she used. Jo's father summons to their home a man reputed to be a friend of the murder victim, Tonn, a sort of outcast who lives on the edge of town. Tonn is considered a disgusting disgrace because, like the murder victim, he prefers to torture people of his own sex; he visits the remand houses maintained for women, where male slaves are tormented. Tonn describes his relationship with the murder victim: Tonn is a true artist of torture who considers the kind of torture other free people inflict to be mere childishness; the murder victim was a fellow virtuoso in the art of inflicting pain and inspiring fear and the two enjoyed comparing notes on the finer points! Jo's next move in the investigation is to interview the daughter of the murder victim, Griselda. Griselda is an aggressive and ambitious woman who enjoys killing and destruction; after meeting Jo, to whom she takes a shine, with lightning speed she makes herself leader of the youth movement, and in no time at all the rhetorical and legal conflict erupts into violence that leaves the city a smoking ruin and most of its freeborn inhabitants dead. Jo gets Elaine out of the remand house, and they flee to the woods, to one of the spacecraft that brought their ancestors to this planet a few centuries ago. Griselda confronts them, and Jo must choose between Elaine the slave girl, and Griselda, a woman of his own class whose interests range from killing birds to leading genocidal revolutionary political movements. Griselda is not the type who takes rejection lying down, and Jo kills her. Jo and Elaine get the space ship to work, blast off, and eventually are picked up by a Comity ship. Jo's treatment of Elaine offends the liberal sensibilities of the Comity people he meets, and the lovers are separated, Jo put under close observation by Comity headshrinkers. In the last sentence of the novel Jo drops his bombshell revelation: Griselda knew who murdered her mother, and she told Jo right before she died--the killer was Jo's mother! In a somewhat self-indulgent afterword Janifer suggests somewhat vaguely that You Sane Men is meant to be a satire of our society or an allegory of general human psychology or something, saying that we are all Jo, Elaine, Tonn, et al. He also does that Barry Malzberg thing, bragging/lamenting that he has published 21 books and many articles and stories under more than 30 pseudonyms. In writing You Sane Men Janifer adopts a sort of modernist literary style, with long, colloquial and somewhat repetitive sentences. There are digressions on the nature of memory and the inability of words to truly convey feelings and other realities--Jo deliberately refrains from giving the name of his planet, his city, and the murder victim, saying the names would tell us nothing, would convey no information. The fallibility of efforts to transmit and receive knowledge is a pervasive theme in the novel. A recurring motif of You Sane Men is the depiction of two different worlds, and the allegation that it is impossible for people from one world to understand those from the other, and unfair for them to judge those in the other world. The first and most obvious example is the efforts of the Comity scientists to understand and willingness to condemn Jo and his world of slavery and torture, but there are plenty of other examples: Elaine was raised in the remand house and knows very little about the world outside its impenetrable metal walls, Jo's world; Jo thinks of Tonn the homosexual as coming from another world and Tonn tells Jo's father that it is impossible to explain to a conventional mind like his the sophisticated torture techniques he has devised; the Council in Jo's city has no interaction with the Councils in other cities and has only the vaguest ideas of what is going on in them; the rebellious youths make no effort to describe the city they will build once they have destroyed the city in which they were born. A related theme is the question of who is accorded full and equal status as a human being: Jo insists to the people of the Comity that he and his people are not monsters, even though they have slaves and torture people for fun; when Elaine hears of the efforts made to solve the murder of Griselda's mother she is enraged that the death of a free woman is taken so seriously when nobody cares what happens to slaves like her; Tonn's expulsion from decent society provides another example. Fellow SF fan C. A. Gallion, we salute you! Relationships between parents and children are another one of Janifer's prominent themes; we have not only the troubled relationships between Jo and his parents, but Griselda's complaints about her own mother, and her exploitation of her status as an orphan to energize the rebellion (Griselda argues the old order must be destroyed because it was that order which killed her mother.) The entire rebellion is more akin to the rebellion of children against their parents (one of those Psych 101 concepts we are all familiar with) than an ideological or political struggle--Council membership rotates among adult free people, but you are only counted as an adult if your parent of your sex has died; the young complain that they won't be on the Council themselves until they are so old they won't have the energy to enjoy power. You Sane Men is ambitious with all its psychological and philosophical angles, and Janifer endeavors to shock readers with the torture scenes and Oedipal overtones, and I'd say it is a moderate success; the talk of it being "astonishingly different" and "the most shocking novel you will ever read" is of course an exaggeration, but I was curious to see what would happen and do not regret reading this SF oddity. User Search limit reached - please wait a few minutes and try again. 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