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...
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...
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...
This is my guilty pleasure book, and I won’t be dissuaded from my love for it.Once upon a time, 25ish years ago, I was a kid struggling. My mom had just died, and we were learning to cope with life. My dad’s new wife (or girlfriend, I can’t remember what she was back then) got a box from one of th...
Having a Victorian man be your protagonist, even an adventurous libertine of a Victorian, will allow an author to get away with a lot.Riverworld is a fantastic idea. Stupendous. All who have ever lived and died on Earth have been simultaneously resurrected, including pre-humans, cured of disease, an...
Imagine that you wake up and the last thing that you remember is dying. You're lying on a riverbank surrounded by strangers who are naked and hairless just as you are. As you explore your surroundings, you find that you are no longer on Earth and the people around you are all the people from the beg...
Race, sex, drugs, religion, political theory, genocide, mind-body duality, the natural state of man: Farmer tackles all these themes using historical figures and aliens (and I assume a whole lot of acid). Completely unique and imaginative hard scifi. This is a great novel for a book club — so much t...
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