Sort of Steve Allen's Meeting of Minds meets Survivor. Farmer came up with an idea that is almost too big to properly execute. With all of humanity to chose from, how do you choose which historical figures to throw together? Farmer could have spent the rest of his life writing Riverworld books (s...
Usually, the Hugo Awards are a good recommendation for entertaining literature.Not in this case. I really don't understand how this book could have been given an award of any kind. Were there NO other sf novels published in 1971?Farmer uses historical figures as his characters as an excuse to not bo...
A very Kilgore Troutish book. Farmer comes up with a phenomenal idea: a world where every human being who's ever lived has been resurrected, to spend the rest of eternity coming to terms with each other along the banks of a gigantic river. Unfortunately, after a few chapters it becomes clear that th...
The one sentence version: Great idea, bad execution....I LOVE the idea of a world where everyone who ever existed is suddenly reesurrected and given a second chance...if that is what's really happening...However, it seems like it never gets too developed from an idea into a story, and using real-lif...
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