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Here is high fidelity fiction at Philip Jos Farmer's
storytelling best. It's a vibrant, distractingly different tale of
three centuries into the future. And as you read you'll have a
vague, uneasy feeling that it's all taking place somewhere in the
unexplored parts of the universe, even today.
Enslaved by a triangular powered despotism -- one lone man sets
his sights to the Six Bright Stars and eventual freedom of his
world.
Thirty billion people from throughout Earth's history have been
resurrected along the great and winding waterways of Riverworld.
Most began life anew--accepting without question the sustenance
provided by their mysterious benefactors. But a rebellious handful,
including Mark Twain, Richard Burton, and Peter Jairus Frigate,
burned to confront the unseen masters who controlled their
fate--and these few launched an invasion that will ultimately yield
the mind-boggling truth. The story was chronicled in four previous
volumes, and is now concluded in "Gods of Riverworld."
Riverworld's omnipotent leaders must finally be confronted, and the
renegades of Riverworld--led by the intrepid Sir Richard Francis
Burton--will control the fantastic mechanism that rules them. But
the most awesome challenge lies ahead. For in the vast corridors
and secret rooms of the tower stronghold, an unknown enemy watches
and waits to usurp the usurpers....
Reissued to follow the Syfy Channel film of "Riverworld," this
fourth book in the classic Riverworld series continues the
adventures of Samuel Clemens and Sir Richard Francis Burton as they
travel through Farmer's strange and wonderful Riverworld, a place
where everyone who ever lived is simultaneously resurrected along a
single river valley that stretches over an entire planet. Famous
characters from history abound.
Now Burton and Clemens, who have traveled for more than thirty
years on two great ships, are about to reach the end of the River.
But there is a religion, The Church of the Second Chance, that has
grown up along the River and its adherents, possibly inspired by
aliens, are determined to destroy the riverboats. A coming battle
may destroy Burton and Clemens, but even if they survive, how can
they penetrate the alien tower of the Ethicals, who created this
astonishing world? What can humans do against a race capable of
creating a world and resurrecting the entire human race on
it?
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The Stone God Awakens (Paperback)
Philip Jose Farmer; Introduction by Danny Adams; Contributions by Charles Berlin
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Ironcastle (Paperback)
Philip Jose Farmer, J H Rosny, Roy G Krenkel
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