To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer
To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer
2 Rating(s)
List: $19.99 | Sale: $13.99
Club: $9.99

To Your Scattered Bodies Go

Author: Philip José Farmer

Narrator: Paul Hecht

Unabridged: 7 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/18/2008

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

All those who ever lived on Earth have found themselves resurrected—healthy, young, and naked as newborns—on the grassy banks of a mighty river, in a world unknown. Miraculously provided with food, but with no clues to the meaning of their strange new afterlife, billions of people from every period of Earth's history—and prehistory—must start again.

Sir Richard Francis Burton would be the first to glimpse the incredible way-station, a link between worlds. This forbidden sight would spur the renowned 19thcentury explorer to uncover the truth. Along with a remarkable group of compatriots, including Alice Liddell Hargreaves (the Victorian girl who was the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland), an English-speaking Neanderthal, a WWII Holocaust survivor, and a wise extraterrestrial, Burton sets sail on the magnificent river. His mission: to confront humankind's mysterious benefactors, and learn the true purpose—innocent or evil—of the Riverworld …

Winner of the Hugo Award

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mario the lone bookwolf on July 06, 2023

The truly sad thing is that the concept is ingenious, such a brilliant idea of resurrection in a sci fa setting, but at the same time a total waste of a wonderful plot. I do think that this book is overrated, not really bad writing or something, but simply not worthy of being mentioned in a line with......more

Goodreads review by Vit on January 18, 2023

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… “At the round earth's imagin’d corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infin......more

Goodreads review by Henry on February 08, 2025

The fabulous river meanders around the unknown planet for 20,000,000 miles with a bottomless depth too, the blue stream with no apparent beginning or end, as the towering black mountains envelop it they tens of thousands of dizzy feet high nobody could climb , even stranger every human from faraway......more

Goodreads review by David on February 20, 2020

This is a wonderful book, so creative and evocative. I have favorite books in every genre. In fantasy my fave is The Wind Up Girl,(a fantastic book), To Your Scattered Bodies Go is up there in the top five of fantasy. This is a book about resurrection and the premise is a little out there. When a pe......more