philip jose farmer to your scattered bodies go

“At the round earth's imagin’d corners, blow When I started reading To Your Scattered Bodies Go I was charmed straightaway… The idea of the story is unprecedentedly imaginative and the style of narration is magically spellbinding… The stranger tells Burton that he must make it to the river's headwaters, along with a dozen others the Stranger has selected, to help stop an evil experiment at the end of which humanity will simply be allowed to die.

Although there are many hardships during the journey-including an encounter with the infamous Hermann Goring-Burton's resolve to complete his quest is strengthened by a visit from the Mysterious Stranger, a being who claims to be a renegade within the very group that created the Riverworld. That's what Burton and a handful of fellow adventurers are determined to discover as they construct a boat and set out in search of the river's source, thought to be millions of miles away. It seems that all of Earthly humanity has been resurrected on the planet, each with an indestructible container that provides three meals a day, cigarettes, alcoholic beverages, a lighter, and the odd tube of lipstick. But that's where Burton and billions of other humans (plus a few nonhumans) find themselves as the epic Riverworld saga begins. When famous adventurer Sir Richard Francis Burton dies, the last thing he expects to do is awaken naked on a foreign planet along the shores of a seemingly endless river. To Your Scattered Bodies Go is the Hugo Award-winning beginning to the story of Riverworld, Philip José Farmer's unequaled tale about life after death.

Philip jose farmer to your scattered bodies go