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Overview: Riverworld is a fictional planet and the setting for a series of science fiction books written by Philip José Farmer (1918-2009). Riverworld is an artificial environment where all humans (and pre-humans) are reconstructed. The books explore interactions of individuals from many different cultures and time periods. Its underlying theme is quasi-religious: who did this? Why? How? The motivations of alien intelligences operating under ultra-ethical motives are explored.
Genre: Fiction » Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror

Riverworld 01-02 - To Your Scattered Bodies Go & The Fabulous Riverboat
"To Your Scattered Bodies Go" and "The Fabulous Riverboat
"Combined for the first time in one volume!
Imagine that every human who ever lived, from the earliest Neanderthals to the present, is resurrected after death on the banks of an astonishing and seemingly endless river on an unknown world. They are miraculously provided with food, but with not a clue to the possible meaning of this strange afterlife. And so billions of people from history, and before, must start living again.
Some set sail on the great river questing for the meaning of their resurrection, and to find and confront their mysterious benefactors. On this long journey, we meet Sir Richard Francis Burton, Mark Twain, Odysseus, Cyrano de Bergerac, and many others, most of whom embark upon searches of their own in this huge afterlife.

Riverworld 03 - The Dark Design
Years have passed on Riverworld. Entire nations have risen, and savage wars have been fought--all since the dead of Earth found themselves resurrected in their magnificent new homeworld. Yet the truth about the Ethicals, the powerful engineers of this mysterious "afterlife," remains unknown. But a curious cross-section of humanity is determined to change that situation... at any cost. Intrepid explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton leads the most remarkable voyage of discovery he has ever undertaken. Hot on his heels are Samuel Clemens, King John of England, and Cyrano de Bergerac. Spurred by the promise of ultimate answers, they chart a course across the vast polar sea--and toward the awesome tower that looms above it. But getting there will be more than half the battle. For death on Riverworld has become chillingly final...

Riverworld 04 - The Magic Labyrinth
At the end of The Fabulous Riverboat, Sam Clemens finally set out in the great iron riverboat Not for Hire to reach the headwaters of the massive river on whose shores humanity has been resurrected. After 33 years on the river, Clemens and his crew--including the giant subhuman Joe Miller--are finally near the end of their journey, and only one obstacle remains: the evil Earthly king, John Lackland. John is waiting just upriver in the Rex Grandissimus, the first riverboat that Sam constructed and the one that John and his crew hijacked, and he's hell-bent on sinking Sam's boat (and vice versa). Complicating the battle is the fact that both ships likely contain agents of the Ethicals, the group of advanced beings who created Riverworld for reasons unknown. One or more of the Ethicals themselves may even be on board, as are various humans that the rebel Ethical, known as the Mysterious Stranger (but known to Clemens simply as X), enlisted in his cause, which may or may not lead to humanity's salvation.

Riverworld 05 - Gods of Riverworld
Thirty-five billion people from throughout Earth's history were resurrected along the great and winding waterways of Riverworld. Most began life anew--accepting without question the sustenance provided by their mysterious benefactors. But a rebellious handful burned to confront the unseen masters who controlled their fate--and these few launched an invasion that would ultimately yield the mind-boggling truth. Now Riverworld's omnipotent leaders have been confronted, and the renegades of Riverworld--led by the intrepid Sir Richard Francis Burton--control the fantastic mechanism that once ruled them. But the most awesome challenge lies ahead. For in the vast corridors and secret rooms of the tower stronghold, an unknown enemy watches and waits to usurp the usurpers...

Riverworld 06 - Tales of Riverworld
In a collection of new Riverworld stories, all the world's dead awaken in Riverworld and play out the grand saga of human history by a new set of rules along the banks of the ten-million-mile river.
Contents:
ix · Foreword · Philip José Farmer · fw
1 · Crossing the Dark River [Part 1 of 2] · Philip José Farmer · n. *
65 · A Hole in Hell · Dane Helstrom · ss *
73 · Graceland · Allen Steele · nv *
101 · Every Man a God · Mike Resnick & Barry N. Malzberg · nv *
141 · Blandings on Riverworld · Phillip C. Jennings · nv *
173 · Two Thieves · Harry Turtledove · nv *
207 · Fool’s Paradise · Ed Gorman · nv *
237 · The Merry Men of Riverworld · John Gregory Betancourt · na *
283 · Unfinished Business · Robert Weinberg · nv *

Riverworld 07 - Quest to Riverworld
By the banks of a ten-million-mile river, everyone who has ever died enjoys a new life, in a collection of science fiction stories--by Harry Turtledove, George Alec Essinger, and Philip Jose Farmer, among others.
Contents:
1 · Up the Bright River · Philip José Farmer · nv *
41 · If the King Like Not the Comedy · Jody Lynn Nye · nv *
64 · Because It’s There · Jerry Oltion · nv *
90 · A Place of Miracles · Owl Goingback · ss *
100 · Diaghilev Plays Riverworld · Robert Sheckley · nv *
123 · Secret Crimes · Robert Sampson · nv *
152 · Hero’s Coin · Brad Strickland · ss *
160 · Human Spirit, Beetle Spirit · John Gregory Betancourt · nv Aboriginal SF Fll ’93
185 · Nevermore · David Bischoff & Dean Wesley Smith · nv *
220 · Old Soldiers · Lawrence Watt-Evans · ss *
231 · Legends · Esther M. Friesner · nv *
262 · Stephen Comes Into Courage · Rick Wilber · nv *
286 · Riverworld Roulette · Robert Weinberg · nv *
314 · Coda · Philip José Farmer · ss *

Riverworld 08 - Riverworld and Other Stories
Contents:
· Riverworld [revised from Worlds of Tomorrow Jan ’66; Riverworld] · na *
· J.C. on the Dude Ranch · ss *
· The Volcano [as by Paul Chapin] · ss F&SF Feb ’76
· The Henry Miller Dawn Patrol · ss Playboy Dec ’77
· The Problem of the Sore Bridge—Among Others [as by Harry Manders] · nv F&SF Sep ’75
· Brass and Gold (or Horse and Zeppelin in Beverly Hills) · ss Quark #4, ed. Samuel R. Delany & Marilyn Hacker, Paperback Library, 1971
· The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod · ss Broadside, 1968; New Worlds #200 ’70
· The Voice of the Sonar in My Vermiform Appendix · ss Quark #2, ed. Samuel R. Delany & Marilyn Hacker, Paperback Library, 1971
· Monolog · ss Demon Kind, ed. Roger Elwood, Avon, 1973
· The Leaser of Two Evils · ss Playboy Jul ’79
· The Phantom of the Sewers [“It’s the Queen of Darkness, Pal”, as by Rod Keen] · ss F&SF Aug ’78

Riverworld SS - Day of the Great Shout
A complete riverworld short story. Starts off with Richard Burton waking up on the river (ala To Your Scattered Bodies Go).

Product details
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00H29K6OC
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berkley Books (January 1, 1983)
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.38 pounds