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To Your Scattered Bodies Go
- Author
- Philip José Farmer
- Narrator
- Paul Hecht
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 18 April 2008
- Run Time
- 7 hours 45 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Science fiction
What to expect
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
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Details
- Author
- Philip José Farmer
- Narrator
- Paul Hecht
- Duration
- 7 hours 45 minutes
- Release Date
- 18 April 2008
- ISBN
- 9781436121156
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- 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
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