Riverworld: Including To Your Scattered Bodies Go & The Fabulous Riverboat
Mar 2010 · Riverworld Book 1 · Tor Books
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From award-winning author Philip Jose Farmer comes his most famous science fiction work: the first combined edition of the first two Riverworld novels, To Your Scattered Bodies Go and The Fabulous Riverboat.
The basis of the 2010 television miniseries from Syfy.
Imagine that every human who ever lived, from the earliest Neanderthals to the present, is resurrected after death on the banks of an astonishing and seemingly endless river on an unknown world. They are miraculously provided with food, but with not a clue to the possible meaning of this strange afterlife. And so billions of people from history, and before, must start living again.
Some set sail on the great river questing for the meaning of their resurrection, and to find and confront their mysterious benefactors. On this long journey, we meet Sir Richard Francis Burton, Mark Twain, Odysseus, Cyrano de Bergerac, and many others, most of whom embark upon searches of their own in this huge afterlife.
"Charts a territory somewhere between Gulliver's Travels and The Lord of the Rings."--Time
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The basis of the 2010 television miniseries from Syfy.
Imagine that every human who ever lived, from the earliest Neanderthals to the present, is resurrected after death on the banks of an astonishing and seemingly endless river on an unknown world. They are miraculously provided with food, but with not a clue to the possible meaning of this strange afterlife. And so billions of people from history, and before, must start living again.
Some set sail on the great river questing for the meaning of their resurrection, and to find and confront their mysterious benefactors. On this long journey, we meet Sir Richard Francis Burton, Mark Twain, Odysseus, Cyrano de Bergerac, and many others, most of whom embark upon searches of their own in this huge afterlife.
"Charts a territory somewhere between Gulliver's Travels and The Lord of the Rings."--Time
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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October 6, 2011
I enjoyed To Your Scattered Bodies Go as the premise is unique and the main character of Richard Burton is engaging. I struggled with The Fabulous Riverboat and eventually skipped the last few chapters as the story just seemed to drag and Samuel Clemens was literally a drag.
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November 27, 2012
Very original kept me interesed the whole way through ... and that almost all the characters are based on real life people is awsome
Elaviano Willars
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December 19, 2015
Like the frist two chapters of any book. Setup to the rest o the story. But needed two novellas. The series as a whole inclusive 5 stars. Like Tolkien it is a huge world
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About the author
Hugo award-winning author Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) was one of the great science fiction writers of the 20th Century, and the Riverworld books are generally considered his masterpiece. He lived in Peoria, Illinois.
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