BLOWN by Philip Jose Farmer

 Finished Fr 7/4/25

This is one of my ancient paperbacks that I had never read. Boy, am I glad that I kept this one around because I don't think I've read anything like it. It's hardcorn porn that's excellently blended into a compelling SciFi tale. Many reveiws seemed shocked at the sex, but I thought it was essential. One of the characters was named 'Vivienne Mabcrough'. She has a 'snake' that extends from her vagina during sex. This extension has the bearded face of Gilles de Rais. The Vivienne character is the 'reincarnation' of Joan of Arc and Gilles de Rais was a leader of the French army during the Hundred Years' War and a companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc. He is best known for his reputation as a serial killer of children. The fictional character of 'Bluebeard' is based on this historical figure. 

The 'Ogs' and the 'Tocs' were two societies from another galaxy that were at war on their home planets and then took their fight to earth. These two 'tribes' were the basis for faries, nymphs, werewolves, big foot, and many others. 'Ogs' were bad and 'Tocs' were forces for good. 

From Thriftbooks.com:

"In Philip Jose Farmer's incredible sequel to The Image of the Beast, Herald Childe continues what started out as a murder case - a very gruesome one admittedly - but which has now become a struggle against the strange and deadly beings who have taken his wife, who threaten his manhood and who threaten mankind itself. His seems a hopeless quest. He is fighting not people but inhuman. unhuman monsters from another universe. They take grotesque physical forms, they recklessly indulge cruel whims-and they are utterly sex-crazed. There's Vivienne-amazingly beautiful-who used to be Joan of Arc. But she has false teeth and she comes, literally, to pieces. Her lover is a snake-like horror whose needle teeth drip aphrodisiac venom. There's Count Igescu. a real live vampire. And these three are surrounded by a crowd of ghastly aliens, grisly characters in a science fiction nightmare. But for Childe there is to be no waking up. It is no bad dream. Though no one else will believe him. he knows this is for real... This description may be from another edition of this product."

It was a wild and crazy ride and I really liked the book.