About this series
Gods of Riverwold is the fifth and final chapter in Philip Jose Farmer's New York Times bestselling classic SF series, Riverworld
Thirty billion people from throughout Earth's history have been 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, including Mark Twain, Richard Burton, and Peter Jairus Frigate, burned to confront the unseen masters who controlled their fate—and these few launched an invasion that will ultimately yield the mind-boggling truth. The story was chronicled in four previous volumes, and is now concluded in Gods of Riverworld.
Riverworld's omnipotent leaders must finally be confronted, and the renegades of Riverworld—led by the intrepid Sir Richard Francis Burton—will control the fantastic mechanism that rules 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....
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Titles in the series (4)
- Riverworld: Including To Your Scattered Bodies Go & The Fabulous Riverboat
1
From award-winning author Philip Jose Farmer comes his most famous science fiction work: the first combined edition of the first two Riverworld novels, To Your Scattered Bodies Go and The Fabulous Riverboat. The basis of the 2010 television miniseries from Syfy. 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. "Charts a territory somewhere between Gulliver's Travels and The Lord of the Rings."--Time At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
- The Dark Design: The Third Book of the Riverworld Series
2
A New York Times bestsesller, The Dark Design is the third novel in Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction legend Philip José Farmer's Riverworld series. Milton Firebrass, once Mark Twain's enemy and now his greatest ally, plans to build a giant airship that can fly to the North Pole of Riverworld. Once there, he hopes to learn the secret of the mysterious tower that dominates the landscape and find the answer to his most urgent question: could the tower contain the Ethicals, the enigmatic beings that created Riverworld? Meanwhile, Jill Gulbirra is challenged for the job of piloting the airship by none other than Cyrano de Bergerac. As if there were not enough challenges facing the crew, they soon suspect there is an agent of the Ethicals among their number, plotting their destruction…. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
- The Magic Labyrinth: The Fourth Book of the Riverworld Series
3
Reissued to follow the Syfy Channel film of Riverworld, this fourth book in the classic Riverworld series continues the adventures of Samuel Clemens and Sir Richard Francis Burton as they travel through Farmer's strange and wonderful Riverworld, a place where everyone who ever lived is simultaneously resurrected along a single river valley that stretches over an entire planet. Famous characters from history abound. Now Burton and Clemens, who have traveled for more than thirty years on two great ships, are about to reach the end of the River. But there is a religion, The Church of the Second Chance, that has grown up along the River and its adherents, possibly inspired by aliens, are determined to destroy the riverboats. A coming battle may destroy Burton and Clemens, but even if they survive, how can they penetrate the alien tower of the Ethicals, who created this astonishing world? What can humans do against a race capable of creating a world and resurrecting the entire human race on it? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
- Gods of Riverworld: The Fifth Book of the Riverworld Series
4
Gods of Riverwold is the fifth and final chapter in Philip Jose Farmer's New York Times bestselling classic SF series, Riverworld Thirty billion people from throughout Earth's history have been 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, including Mark Twain, Richard Burton, and Peter Jairus Frigate, burned to confront the unseen masters who controlled their fate—and these few launched an invasion that will ultimately yield the mind-boggling truth. The story was chronicled in four previous volumes, and is now concluded in Gods of Riverworld. Riverworld's omnipotent leaders must finally be confronted, and the renegades of Riverworld—led by the intrepid Sir Richard Francis Burton—will control the fantastic mechanism that rules 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.... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Philip Jose Farmer
Philip José Farmer (1918–2009) was born in North Terre Haute, Indiana, and grew up in Peoria, Illinois. A voracious reader, Farmer decided in the fourth grade that he wanted to be a writer. For a number of years he worked as a technical writer to pay the bills, but science fiction allowed him to apply his knowledge and passion for history, anthropology, and the other sciences to works of mind-boggling originality and scope. His first published novella, “The Lovers” (1952), earned him the Hugo Award for best new author. He won a second Hugo and was nominated for the Nebula Award for the 1967 novella “Riders of the Purple Wage,” a prophetic literary satire about a futuristic, cradle-to-grave welfare state. His best-known works include the Riverworld books, the World of Tiers series, the Dayworld Trilogy, and literary pastiches of such fictional pulp characters as Tarzan and Sherlock Holmes. He was one of the first writers to take these characters and their origin stories and mold them into wholly new works. His short fiction is also highly regarded. In 2001, Farmer won the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement and was named Grand Master by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America.
Read more from Philip Jose Farmer
Alien Sex: 19 Tales by the Masters of Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Riverworld and Other Stories Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Green Odyssey: With linked Table of Contents Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5They Twinkled Like Jewels Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Unreasoning Mask Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Time's Last Gift Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Three Powerful Science Fiction Classics: The Lovers, Dark Is the Sun, and Riders of the Purple Wage Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Two Hawks from Earth Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume I Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlack Cat Weekly #136 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Green Odyssey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rastignac the Devil Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Hadon of Ancient Opar Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Other Log of Phileas Fogg Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Wind Whales of Ishmael Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThey Twinkled like Jewels: With linked Table of Contents Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Lord of the Trees Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Adventure of the Peerless Peer Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLord Tyger Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRastignac the Devil Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlack Cat Weekly #137 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Riverworld
Related ebooks
The Skill of Our Hands: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Riverworld: Including To Your Scattered Bodies Go & The Fabulous Riverboat Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Luna: Moon Rising Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dayworld Breakup Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Midsummer Tempest Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Saturn's Race Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Two Hawks from Earth Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Dayworld Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Helliconia Trilogy: Helliconia Spring, Helliconia Summer, and Helliconia Winter Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Tangled Lands Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unconquerable Sun Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Incrementalists Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Brokedown Palace Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lamentation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Companions: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dragons, Droids & Doom: Year One Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Starfarers Series Books 1–2: Starfarers * Transition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Margarets Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Alternative Detective Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Science Fiction For You
This Is How You Lose the Time War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wool: Book One of the Silo Series Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Camp Zero: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Silo Series Collection: Wool, Shift, Dust, and Silo Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Stories of Ray Bradbury Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cryptonomicon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I Am Legend Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Flowers for Algernon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Institute: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Annihilation: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I Who Have Never Known Men Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Alchemist: A Graphic Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Psalm for the Wild-Built Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dust: Book Three of the Silo Series Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shift: Book Two of the Silo Series Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sarah J. Maas: Series Reading Order - with Summaries & Checklist Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Troop Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Frankenstein: Original 1818 Uncensored Version Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How High We Go in the Dark: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5That Hideous Strength: (Space Trilogy, Book Three) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Warrior of the Light: A Manual Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Brandon Sanderson: Best Reading Order - with Summaries & Checklist Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rendezvous with Rama Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Prophet Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Perelandra: (Space Trilogy, Book Two) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for Riverworld
280 ratings0 reviews