- Hugo Award Winner, Fiction in English, Science fiction, Riverworld (imaginary place), fiction
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.
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- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Philip José Farmer
- First published
- 1973
- Pages
- 221
- Publisher
- Ballantine Pub. Group, Berkley, Collins
- Editions
- 28
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780425028094
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**Philip José Farmer** was an American author, principally known for his award-winning science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories. Farmer is best known for his sequences of novel — especially the World of Tiers (1965–93) and Riverworld (1971–83) series. He is noted for the pioneering use of sexual and religious themes in his work, his fascination for — and reworking of — the lore of celebrated pulp heroes, and occasional tongue-in-cheek pseudonymous works written as if by fictional characters. Philip José Farmer is also well known for remixing classic fictional characters, worlds, and both real and fake authors. This is epitomized with his Wold Newton family group of books that tie
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