From: utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!bts
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Title: Re: Venus on the Half-Shell - (nf)
Article-I.D.: unc.4666
Posted: Tue Feb 15 17:17:36 1983
Received: Fri Feb 18 04:45:41 1983
References: inmet.20

It was Philip Jose Farmer, the same one who did the Riverworld books.
Neither of these (except the first Riverworld) is among his best.