| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780345419675 | | Publisher: Del Rey | | Publish Date: 7/1/1998 | | Buy.com Sku: 30366465 | | Item#: RWG9YR | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8.25H x 5.5L x 0.75T |
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| | | All those who ever lived on Earth have found themselves resurrected--healthy, young, and naked as newborns--on the grassy banks of a mighty river, in a world unknown. Miraculously provided with food, but with no clues to the meaning of their strange new afterlife, billions of people from every period of Earth's history--and prehistory--must start again.
Sir Francis Bacon would be the first to glimpse the incredible way-station, a link between worlds. This forbidden sight would spur the renowned 19th-century explorer to uncover the truth. Along with a remarkable group of compatriots, including Alice Liddell Hargreaves (the Victorian girl who was the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland), an English-speaking Neanderthal, a WWII Holocaust survivor, and a wise extraterrestrial, Burton sets sail on the magnificent river. His mission: to confront humankind's mysterious benefactors, and learn the true purpose--innocent or evil--of the Riverworld . . .
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In the first book of the popular and influential Riverworld series, author Farmer introduces the Riverworld--a ten-million-mile-long river, the banks of which are populated with every person who ever lived--and the main characters, Sir Richard Burton, Samuel Clemens, and Jack London, not to mention the author's customary alter ego, Peter Jarius Frigate. Winner of the 1972 Hugo Award for best novel.
| Author Bio| Philip Jose Farmer | | Though Philip Jose Farmer didn't begin to publish stories until much later than most other science fiction authors, when he did, he made a huge splash. A part-time student, Farmer graduated in 1950 from Bradley University with a B.A. in creative writing. He worked odd jobs for several years before he became technical writer, and eventually a freelance writer. In 1952, when he was 34, Farmer's story "The Lovers," after being rejected by two major SF publishers, earned him a Hugo Award as Best New Author. The story sharply divided the SF community at the time, being the first science fiction story to incorporate explicit sexual references into its narrative. Following this calling card, Farmer continued to make innovations in the genre, like the 1968 Hugo Award-winner "Riders of the Purple Wage." His masterpiece, 1971's TO YOUR SCATTERED BODIES GO, is the first novel in his Riverworld series. Based on an earlier novel that had been lost when its publisher went bankrupt, the novel won the 1972 Hugo--Farmer's third. Its fascinating premise is that every person who has ever lived is suddenly reborn along the shores of an alien river. As a fan of the original pulp science fiction magazines, Farmer wrote novels in the Tarzan and Doc Savage series. His VENUS ON THE HALF SHELL was written under the pseudonym Kilgore Trout, a recurring character in Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s fiction. He was awarded the honor of Grand Master at the 2000 Nebula Awards and the Life Achievement Award at the 2000 World Fantasy Award. He wrote horror, fantasy, and mysteries in addition to science fiction. Farmer died in his sleep in 2009. |
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Hugo Award (1972) |  | won, Novel | | |
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