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FBP4: V1.0. To your Scattered Bodies Go by Phillip Jose Farmer

" Dearly beloved we are gathered here today as mark of respect at the time of the passing on of our dear friend. This was a paperback book which came into being nearly 20 years ago, full of hope and promise. Now that life has ended. Advancing years combined with a certain stiffness of the spine (old glue!) and a tendency to curl at the edges, mean that all that remains after the rigours of its final scanning is a tattered pile which we will now respectfully commit to the bin. Ashes to Ashes, dust to dust.... In sure and certain knowledge of the resurrection to eternal life....as an e-book. You could say that this book died for your sins, so that you may have the pleasure of its presence on your hard drive forever more. Here Endeth the lesson. ....Amen. "

Not as big a fan of this one as I was 20 years ago. Some of the attitudes seem almost racist, definitely clumsy, sometimes thoughtless by modern standards, and not all of this can be excused by pointing out that the main character is literally a Victorian. Early plug for the greens though. Nice to see biography's getting a plug too. Great concept. Definitely a classic of Sci Fi for all its failings. Enjoy...AFB

P.S. See notes at end re new posting strategy

Welcome to Riverworld. It is not like our world - or any world that can be imagined by anyone but Philip Jose Farmer. It is huge and mysterious. It has a central river, rimmed by mountains, with a hidden source and an unknown end. Reborn there is every last soul who ever lived on Earth-from prehistoric apemen to moon-dwelling future civilizations. Reborn there is Sir Richard Francis Burton, translator of The Arabian Nights, explorer, brawler, scholar, womanizer-adventurer. His quest to discover the end of the river, the meaning of the world's existence - and lovely Alice Hargreaves (the real-life model for Alice in Wonderland) form a science fiction adventure that is already recognized as a classic.

`Jolting conception . . . brought off with tremendous skill' THE TIMES

`Fantasy, mystery and danger rear their immortal heads and are masterfully combined with a truly riveting purpose into one of those all too rare and valuable Books You Can't Put Down' TIME OUT

`Impressively imaginative and well researched' EVENING STANDARD

Titles by Philip Jose Farmer available in Panther Science Fiction

The Award-winning RIVERWORLD saga
TO YOUR SCATTERED BODIES GO
THE FABULOUS RIVERBOAT
THE DARK DESIGN
THE MAGIC LABYRINTH

RIVERWORLD AND OTHER STORIES
THE STONE GOD AWAKENS
TIME'S LAST GIFT
TRAITOR TO THE LIVING
STRANGE RELATIONS
DARK IS THE SUN
JESUS ON MARS

Philip Jose Farmer shocked the world of Science Fiction in 1952 with the publication of his novella The Lovers in Startling Stories. It told of the romance between a man and an alien parasitic insect which had taken the form of a woman, and with this story Farmer introduced real sex into a world of Science Fiction which needed this uplift. The Lovers won him a Hugo Award in 1953; his second Hugo came in 1968 for the story Riders of the Purple Wage written for Harlan Ellison's famous Dangerous Visions series; and his third came in 1972 for the first part of the Riverworld Series, To Your Scattered Bodies Go. Leslie Fiedler, eminent critic and professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo, has said that Farmer `. . . has an imagination capable of being kindled by the irredeemable mystery of the universe and of the soul, and in turn able to kindle the imagination of others - readers who for a couple of generations have been turning to science fiction to keep wonder and ecstasy alive.'


A PANTHER BOOK GRANADA London Toronto Sydney New York by Granada Publishing Limited is 1974 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981 J 0 586 03939 2 published in Great Britain by Rapp and Whiting Ltd 1973 Copyright (r) Philip Josh Farmer 1971 Parts of this work, under the titles of 'The Day of the Great Shout' and 'Riverworld', appeared in Galaxy Magazine in 1965 and 1966. Day of the Great Shout' (c) UPD Publishing corporation 1965. 'Riverworld' (c) UPD Publishing Corporation 1966 Granada Publishing Limited Frogmore, St Albans, Hems AL2 2NF dad 'fib Golden Square, London W1R 4AH 6 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA 866 York Street, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia 100 Skyway Avenue, Rexdale, Ontario M9W 3A6, Canada 61 Beach Road, Auckland, New Zealand Made and printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd Bungay, Suffolk Set is Linotype Plantin This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lest, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

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To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer

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His wife had held him in her arms as if she could keep death away from him.

He had cried out, `My God, I am a dead man!' The door to the room had opened, and he had seen a giant, black, one-humped camel outside and had heard the tinkle of the bells on its harness as the hot desert wind touched them. Then a huge black face topped by a great black-turban had appeared in the doorway. The black eunuch had come in through the door, moving like a cloud, with a gigantic scimitar in his hand. Death, the Destroyer of Delights and the Sunderer of Society, had arrived at last.

Blackness. Nothingness. He did not even know that his heart had given out forever. Nothingness.

Then his eyes opened. His heart was beating strongly. He was strong, very strong! All the pain of the gout in his feet, the agony in his liver, the torture in his heart, all were gone.