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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






To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer

1

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