Il fiume della vita (Il Mondo del Fiume, #1)
ISBN:
9788842900177 (8842900176)
Publish date: July 1971
Publisher: Editrice Nord
Edition language: Italian
Series: Riverworld (#1)
Good novel with a great story idea. Every human being (and one alien) that ever lived on Earth is resurrected on an alien world beside a river millions of miles long. Everyone is naked and hairless. They have a canister strapped to their arm that, when placed in "grails" spaced along the river, is f...
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This book is the first in the Riverworld series by Farmer. It reminds me very much of Heinlein at his most cantankerous and misanthropic. The story is that all the human beings that have ever lived wake up at the same time on the banks of a river millions of miles long.The protagonist is a real pers...
1972 Hugo Winner!
This is the opening novel in Farmer's Riverworld and was a fantastic read. I just cracked open the book and hours later I blink having reached the last page--so smooth style and page turner. This was written in 1971 but didn't read as dated, aside from that time's Environmental Doom Fad(tm). The p...
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