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Riverworld
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 "Super-Earth" 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. The motivations of alien intelligences operating under ultra-ethical motives are also explored. Works The five novels in the series are as follows: * '' To Your Scattered Bodies Go'' (1971) – Hugo Award winner, Locus Award nominee * '' The Fabulous Riverboat'' (1971) * '' The Dark Design'' (1977) * ''The Magic Labyrinth'' (1980) * ''Gods of Riverworld'' (1983; later published as ''The Gods of Riverworld'') * '' River of Eternity'' (1983) – an earlier version of Riverworld There are also several Riverworld short stories. The first of these appeared in Farmer's anthology: * ''Riverworld and Other Stories'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riverworld
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 "Super-Earth" 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. The motivations of alien intelligences operating under ultra-ethical motives are also explored. Works The five novels in the series are as follows: * '' To Your Scattered Bodies Go'' (1971) – Hugo Award winner, Locus Award nominee * '' The Fabulous Riverboat'' (1971) * '' The Dark Design'' (1977) * ''The Magic Labyrinth'' (1980) * ''Gods of Riverworld'' (1983; later published as ''The Gods of Riverworld'') * '' River of Eternity'' (1983) – an earlier version of Riverworld There are also several Riverworld short stories. The first of these appeared in Farmer's anthology: * ''Riverworld and Other Stories'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip José Farmer
Philip José Farmer (January 26, 1918 – February 25, 2009) was an American author known for his science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories. Obituary. Farmer is best known for his sequences of novels, especially the ''World of Tiers'' (1965–93) and ''Riverworld'' (1971–83) series. He is noted for the pioneering use of sexual and religious themes in his work, his fascination for, and reworking of, the lore of celebrated pulp heroes, and occasional tongue-in-cheek pseudonymous works written as if by fictional characters. Farmer often mixed real and classic fictional characters and worlds and real and fake authors as epitomized by his Wold Newton family group of books. These tie all classic fictional characters together as real people and blood relatives resulting from an alien conspiracy. Such works as ''The Other Log of Phileas Fogg'' (1973) and '' Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life'' (1973) are early examples of literary mashup novel. Literary critic Leslie Fiedler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Magic Labyrinth
''The Magic Labyrinth'' (1980) is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip José Farmer, the fourth in the series of Riverworld books. The title is derived from lines in Sir Richard Francis Burton's poem ''The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî'': Originally intended to be the final book in the series, this book continues the chronicles of the adventures of Sir Richard Burton, Cyrano de Bergerac, Alice Liddell, Tom Mix, and Samuel Clemens through a bizarre afterlife in which every human is simultaneously resurrected along a single river valley covering an entire planet. Many questions about the creation and purpose of the Riverworld are answered, but several are left unanswered, prompting Farmer to write a fifth and final novel, ''Gods of Riverworld'', in 1983. Edgar L. Chapman wrote a 1984 biography of Farmer entitled ''The Magic Labyrinth of Philip José Farmer''. Plot The book begins with the Mysterious Stranger, known as X, the renegade Ethical (one of the Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gods Of Riverworld
''Gods of Riverworld'' (1983) is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip José Farmer, the fifth and last in the series of Riverworld books. It was reprinted in 1998 by Del Rey under the title ''The Gods of Riverworld''. Plot This book concludes the chronicles of the adventures of such diverse characters as Sir Richard Burton, Alice Pleasance Liddell, Aphra Behn and Tom Turpin through a bizarre afterlife in which every human ever to have lived is simultaneously resurrected along a single river valley that stretches over an entire planet. Although Farmer's 1980 novel '' The Magic Labyrinth'' was originally intended to be the last in the series, Farmer continued it in this novel, which picks up with the characters who have just arrived in the alien-built tower at the headwaters of the river from which this constructed world gets its name; they must decide how to use the resurrection machinery they now control, and also solve the mystery of the murder of the mysterious ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fabulous Riverboat
''The Fabulous Riverboat'' is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip José Farmer, the second book in the Riverworld series . A shorter version of the novel was serialized in '' If'' magazine as "The Felled Star" (July and August 1967) and "The Fabulous Riverboat" (June and August 1971). Overview Departing from the exploits of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton in the first Riverworld novel, ''To Your Scattered Bodies Go'', ''The Fabulous Riverboat'' follows the efforts of Samuel Clemens to find a way to build a riverboat on the metal-poor Riverworld. In the process, he confronts a tenth-century Viking, makes friends with a member of another hominid species and forms an uneasy alliance with King John Lackland. Plot summary Twenty years after humanity was resurrected on Riverworld, Sam Clemens is traveling with the crew of a Viking longboat, captained by Eric Bloodaxe, who is notable for having an axe made of metal. On the metal-poor Riverworld, where even a few ounc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
To Your Scattered Bodies Go
''To Your Scattered Bodies Go'' (1971) is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip José Farmer, the first book in the Riverworld series. It won a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1972 at the 30th Worldcon. The title is derived from the 7th of the "Holy Sonnets" by English poet John Donne: Plot British adventurer Richard Francis Burton dies on Earth and is revived in mid-air in a vast dark room filled with human bodies, some only half-formed. There, he is confronted by men in a flying vehicle who then blast him with a weapon. He next awakes upon the shores of a mysterious river, naked and hairless. All around him are other people in a similar situation. Shortly after they awaken, a nearby structure, nicknamed a "grailstone," causes food and other supplies to appear in the "grails" bound to each individual. Burton quickly attracts a group of companions: the neanderthal Kazzintuitruaabemss (nicknamed Kazz), the science fiction author Peter Jairus Frigate, and Alice Liddell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dark Design
''The Dark Design'' (1977) is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip José Farmer, the third in the series of Riverworld books. The title is derived from lines in Sir Richard Francis Burton's poem ''The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî'': Plot The plot, set 30 years after humanity's resurrection, consists of three distinct plot lines, which come together towards the conclusion. In the first plot line, Richard Burton and his friends continue their journey up river. On their journey they encounter a group of ancient Egyptians who tell them of a mission which their Pharaoh had undertaken to reach the source of the River. Accompanied by the Titanthrop Joe Miller, who they believed to be an avatar of Thoth, they scaled the mountains at the River's headwaters and descended into a polar sea, with a large black tower in the center. On the shores they found a cave with supplies and boat. One of their number died there, bringing the story back to the Valley. Burton also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Of Eternity
''River of Eternity'' is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip José Farmer (1918-2009). It is an early version of what became Farmer's popular ''Riverworld'' series of novels (1971-83), in which all of humanity has been resurrected and resettled on an artificial "river planet". The original "Riverworld" story was a 150,000-word novel titled ''Owe for the Flesh'', which ended with a protagonist named Richard Black (based on the real-life British Arabist and explorer Richard Francis Burton) finding the tower at the end of the river. Farmer wrote it in a single month in 1952See Farmer's "Forward" in ''Riverworld and Other Stories'' (1979); New York: Berkley Books, pp 3-5. and promptly entered it in a science fiction novel contest run by Shasta Publishers and subsidized by Pocket Books. He won the contest but received no money. The work was never published and was lost in its original form. Farmer revised and retitled the book ''River of Eternity'', but that version remain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fictional Planet
Planets in science fiction are fictional planets that appear in various media of the science fiction genre as story-settings or depicted locations. Planet lists For planets from specific fictional milieux, use the following lists: Literature * ''Alliance–Union Universe'' by C. J. Cherryh: planet list * The works of Hal Clement: planet list * ''Childe Cycle'' by Gordon R. Dickson: planet list * ''Demon Princes'' by Jack Vance: planet list * ''Known Space'' by Larry Niven: planet list * ''Noon Universe'' by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky: planet list * ''The Three Worlds Cycle'' by Ian Irvine: planet list * ''Time Quintet'' by Madeleine L'Engle: planet list * ''Uplift'' by David Brin: planet list *Various works by Kurt Vonnegut: Tralfamadore (different planets with the same name) Comics * DC Comics: planet list * Marvel Comics: planet list Film and television * Marvel Cinematic Universe: planet list * ''Star Wars'': planet list Animation * ''Teenage Muta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fictional Planet
Planets in science fiction are fictional planets that appear in various media of the science fiction genre as story-settings or depicted locations. Planet lists For planets from specific fictional milieux, use the following lists: Literature * ''Alliance–Union Universe'' by C. J. Cherryh: planet list * The works of Hal Clement: planet list * ''Childe Cycle'' by Gordon R. Dickson: planet list * ''Demon Princes'' by Jack Vance: planet list * ''Known Space'' by Larry Niven: planet list * ''Noon Universe'' by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky: planet list * ''The Three Worlds Cycle'' by Ian Irvine: planet list * ''Time Quintet'' by Madeleine L'Engle: planet list * ''Uplift'' by David Brin: planet list *Various works by Kurt Vonnegut: Tralfamadore (different planets with the same name) Comics * DC Comics: planet list * Marvel Comics: planet list Film and television * Marvel Cinematic Universe: planet list * ''Star Wars'': planet list Animation * ''Teenage Muta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Resurrection
Resurrection or anastasis is the concept of coming back to life after death. In a number of religions, a dying-and-rising god is a deity which dies and is resurrected. Reincarnation is a similar process hypothesized by other religions, which involves the same person or deity coming back to live in a different body, rather than the same one. The resurrection of the dead is a standard eschatological belief in the Abrahamic religions. As a religious concept, it is used in two distinct respects: a belief in the resurrection of individual souls that is current and ongoing ( Christian idealism, realized eschatology), or else a belief in a singular resurrection of the dead at the end of the world. Some believe the soul is the actual vehicle by which people are resurrected. The death and resurrection of Jesus is a central focus of Christianity. Christian theological debate ensues with regard to what kind of resurrection is factual – either a ''spiritual'' resurrection with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle Paleolithic
The Middle Paleolithic (or Middle Palaeolithic) is the second subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age as it is understood in Europe, Africa and Asia. The term Middle Stone Age is used as an equivalent or a synonym for the Middle Paleolithic in African archeology. The Middle Paleolithic broadly spanned from 300,000 to 30,000 years ago. There are considerable dating differences between regions. The Middle Paleolithic was succeeded by the Upper Paleolithic subdivision which first began between 50,000 and 40,000 years ago. Pettit and White date the Early Middle Paleolithic in Great Britain to about 325,000 to 180,000 years ago (late Marine Isotope Stage 9 to late Marine Isotope Stage 7), and the Late Middle Paleolithic as about 60,000 to 35,000 years ago. According to the theory of the recent African origin of modern humans, anatomically modern humans began migrating out of Africa during the Middle Stone Age/Middle Paleolithic around 125,000 years ago and began to replace e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
