''The Book of the River'' is a novel by Ian Watson published in 1984.

Plot summary

''The Book of the River'' is a novel in which Yaleen is one of the women who sail on an immense river which they cannot cross due to vast Worm appearing as the gelatinous Black Current that runs along its full length.

Reception

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reviewed ''The Book of the River'' for ''

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'' #55, and stated that "Not exactly major Watson, but good-humoured and enormously readable."

Reviews

*Review by Chris Morgan (1984) in

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, August 1984 *Review by K. V. Bailey (1984) in

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122 *Review by Baird Searles (1986) in

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, July 1986 *Review by Don D'Ammassa (1986) in

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, #86 November 1986

References

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