`"Feeling Theocidal -- Thrygragon, Year of the Dome 4376"`, Book One of `The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories`, and `"The War of the Apocalyptics"`, the first book in the `Launch 1980` story sequence, should be available at neighbourhood bookstores and public libraries all over the world

If you don't see the novels displayed at your local book stops, kindly direct purchasing agents and/or booksellers to www.phantacea.com in order to help them rectify the situation.

The cover for War of the Apocalyptics, Ian Bateson, 2009, with a rollover of an alternative cover for the same book prepared by Jim McPherson, 2003

The front cover for Feeling Theocidal, artwork by Verne Andru, 2008, with a rollover collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2008, for the same book

Individual copies of "Feeling Theocidal" and "The War of the Apocalyptics" can be ordered from amazon.com and its affiliates, including amazon.ca and amazon.co.uk, as well as from Barnes & Noble. Libraries, bookstores and bookseller collectives can place bulk orders through Ingram Books, Ingram International, Baker & Taylor, and a large number of other distributors worldwide.

Of course you can always email or send me your order(s) via surface mail. No matter where you live or what currency you prefer to use, I'll figure out a way to fill your order(s) myself. Just be aware that I can only accept certified cheques or money orders. Plus, I'll have to charge an additional 15% to cover Canadian and provincial goods and sales taxes as well as Canada Post rates for shipping.

I do use bubble mailers, though.

BookFinder.com lists both mosaic novels: "Feeling Theocidal"and "The War of the Apocalyptics". Also listed therein are most of the other PHANTACEA Mythos print publications.

Another interesting option for the curious is Chegg, which has a rent-a-book program. Thus far its search engine shows no results for phantacea (any style or permutation thereof) but it does recognize Jim McPherson (a variety of them) and the titles of the novels.

As for the Whole Earth (other than the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head, at least as far as I can say), well, this page contains a list of a few other websites where you can probably order the novels in a variety of currencies and with credit cards;

A Quick-Read Timeline of PHANTACEA Mythos Print Publications

| The Comic Book series | The Graphic Novel | The pH-Webworld Serials | `"Feeling Theocidal"` | `"The War of the Apocalyptics"` | Order mosaic novels now | Bottom of Page Lynx |

PHANTACEA – A Very Brief History

PHANTACEA began as a 6-issue comic book series written and published by Jim McPherson between the years 1977 and 1980. A large number of artists, most of them Canadian and/or based in Vancouver Canada at the time, contributed to PHANTACEA. They included Dave Sim, Gordon Parker, Sean Newton, Ian Bateson, Peter Lynde, Richard Sandoval, Carl Muecke, Verne Andrusiek (later Verne Andru), Gene Day, Vince Marchesano, Tim Hammell, Reg Klassen and George Freeman.

In 1986, Jim McPherson wrote and published PHANTACEA Phase One. Although parts of subsequent issues were prepared, only one issue was printed. The cover art was by Ian Bateson, who also redrew some of the Dave Sim artwork from PHANTACEA One. A backup feature was drawn by Ian Fry, in his first work as a comic book artist. All of the backup material Ian Fry prepared for this project was collected and print-published here.

In 1990, Jim McPherson (operating as James H McPherson, Publisher, for the first time) published "Forever & 40 Days - The Genesis of PHANTACEA". The graphic novel aspect of this PHANTACEA Mythos print publication was written by Jim McPherson and drawn by Ian Fry. The cover was by Ian Bateson, in part working from a design by Jim McPherson and Ian Fry.

A short story entitled "Sister Grandmother", written by Jim McPherson, was included in the package. It spotlighted some of the members of PHANTACEA's Damnation Brigade, notably Wilderwitch and Dervish Furie. Also included in the package were additional text features and a table detailing the proper names, birth years, correctly calculated longevity, and the death years of the 10 patriarchs of post-Eden, Golden Age Humankind (according to the PHANTACEA Mythos).

From 1996 until the present day, Jim McPherson has been writing, designing and publishing PHANTACEA on the Web. Among the many attractions of this website are photo essays and illustrations prepared by Jim McPherson. Many of these are collages incorporating photographs he has taken on his various travels.

Jim McPherson has separate website dedicated to these travels. Its title, Jim McPherson's Travels in my Pants, is intended as a joke, as in 'Travels with my Aunt'. (Which, I believe, was a series of travelogues put out in the Sixties, though I could wrong about that.) It is not, repeat not, a porn site. You can get to it from here.

In 2008, Jim McPherson finally finished "Feeling Theocidal - Book One of the Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories". The first-ever, all-prose mosaic novel featuring the PHANTACEA Mythos was followed a year later, in the Fall of 2009, by "The War of the Apocalyptics". As the first entry in the Launch 1980 story sequence, War-Pox is based on the PHANTACEA comic books as well as the web-serial of the same name, which was published online from 1996-1998.

Individual copies of both novels are now available through amazon.com and its affiliates, including amazon.ca and amazon.co.uk, as well as Barnes & Noble in the USA and Bertrams in the UK. The list prices are the same: $23.00 CAD in Canada and $22.00 USD in the States. I've seen Feel Theo advertised for lots less, though, so have a google, as the saying goes.

Bookstores and bookseller collectives can order bulk copies of the novels from the Ingram Book Company, Ingram International and Baker & Taylor, among many other places. In this regard, I note Bertrams|THE in the UK supports the Independent Booksellers Group (IBG), which makes it possible for many bricks and mortar bookstores to place bulk orders at a sensible savings. And that, to editorialize for a brief moment, strikes me as an eminently worthwhile innovation; something booksellers over here should emulate.

PHANTACEA on the Web (nowadays generally called Jim McPherson PHANTACEA Mythos Online) has been serializing mini-novels and short stories featuring Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos throughout its existence. A companion website, www.phantacea.com, is dedicated entirely to PHANTACEA Mythos print publications, all of which are nominally published by James H McPherson, Publisher.

That’d be me.

Jim McPherson
Creator/Writer/Publisher
jmcp@phantacea.com

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"Feeling Theocidal -- Thrygragon, Year of the Dome 4376", Book One of The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories, and "The War of the Apocalyptics", the first book in the Launch 1980 story sequence, should be available at neighbourhood bookstores and public libraries all over the world