by Philip José Farmer
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We exchange Richard Burton for Samuel Clemens and set the story a couple decades past "Resurrection Day", when all of humanity (and then some) who ever lived wake up naked on the shores of an impossibly long river.Clemens, or Mark Twain, has a dream of finding iron. Riverworld seems to have been int...
This is why I so rarely start series books. The first book was great and the second book was awful. Farmer assumes that if everyone who ever lived was brought together on the same planet at the same time, everyone would constantly be fighting everyone out of sport and boredom. And, thus, Farmer crea...
http://pro-libertate.net/20090822/90-read-fabulous-riverboat
Adds a new dimension to the expression "sell someone down the river". Oh, and in this novel Hermann Goering is a good guy.
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