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Riverworld is an artificial " Super-Earth " environment where all humans and pre-humans are reconstructed. The books explore interactions of individuals from many different cultures and time periods. Its underlying theme is quasi-religious. The motivations of alien intelligences Gods of Riverworld under ultra-ethical motives are also explored. There are also several Riverworld short stories. The first of these appeared in Farmer's anthology:. In the early s, it was Gods of Riverworld to turn Riverworld into a shared universe anthology series, with numerous authors being invited to participate. Only two volumes were released:. Set millennia in the future, the Riverworld is a Super-Earth -like planetterraformed to consist solely of a single long river-valley which snakes across its entire surface. The river's source is a small North Polar sea, from which it follows a course tightly zig-zagging across one hemisphere before flowing into another, along an equally labyrinthine path, to the same sea. The river has an average depth of 1. It is shallow near the shore but plunges to enormous depths towards the channel. The banks are generally smooth and gentle, expanding into wide plains on either side, then assuming jagged hills before an impenetrable mountain range. There are no seasons, and daily variations are metronomic. The only animal life consists of fish and soil worms. The vegetation is lush and of great variety, including trees, flowering vines, several kinds Gods of Riverworld fast-growing bamboo, and a resilient mat of grass which covers the plains. The Riverworld has no visible moon, but a great number of stellar objects in the sky, including gas sheets and stars close enough to show a visible disk. The story of Riverworld begins when 36,, humans, varying from the first Homo sapiens until the early 21st century, are simultaneously resurrected along the river. Originally the cut-off year was given as still a speculative date when the novels were first published ; but this later was modified to Purportedly, the cut-off indicated the point at Gods of Riverworld most of the human race had been purposefully annihilated by first contact with aliens visiting Earth. The protagonists later find this a creative fiction, produced by the masterminds of the resurrection. In each area are initially three groups of people: a large group from one time period and place, a smaller group from another time and place, and a very small group of people from random times and places most of the 20th- and 21st-century humans are part of this last group. Most of the resurrected awaken in a body equivalent to that Gods of Riverworld their year-old selves, Gods of Riverworld perfect health and free Gods of Riverworld any previous genetic or acquired defects. All heart disease, tooth decay, and blindness are gone, and all amputated limbs are restored; whereas certain neurological impulses for instance, curiosity or chemical addiction remain intact. These bodies do not age, and can regenerate nearly any non-fatal injury, including dismemberments and blindings. The Gods of Riverworld bodies are completely free of infection and seem resistant to it albeit in the absence of hostile bacteria or Gods of Riverworld on the Riverworld [ clarification needed ]. Initially hairless, the bodies grow cephalic hair and pubic hair at a normal rate. Men do not have foreskins or grow facial hair ; whereas women have intact hymens. It is impossible to conceive children on Riverworld. Anyone who died at an age younger than 25 assumes a body equivalent to that lesser age, which then ages at a normal rate before stopping at No one who was less than five years old at death is resurrected on the Riverworld it is eventually revealed that children under the age of five were resurrected on another planet, Gardenworld. Should an individual die, they are resurrected elsewhere along the banks of the river. Some people even use this process to travel, though there is a limit to the number of resurrections available to each person. Because all the languages of mankind are represented in Riverworld, Esperanto spreads as a common tongue. One of the themes of the series is the way historical characters change as a result of this cosmopolitan setting. Apparently left to their own devices, the people recreate their Earthly societies. The resurrected awaken with nearly-indestructible containers tied to their wrists, commonly called "grails", which produce food, drink, pieces of cloth, and luxury items, such as alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and lighters for samehair care utensils, makeup, Gods of Riverworld a hallucinogenic chewing gum, known as "dreamgum". To operate, grails must be placed onto large, mushroom-shaped "grailstones", found at intervals along the riverbanks, which produce an electrical discharge three times per day corresponding to the Gods of Riverworld of breakfast, lunch and dinner. As agriculture is absent, and indeed impossible on the Riverworld, the grails are vital to an individual's survival, and cannot be opened Gods of Riverworld by their individual owners. Nevertheless, "grail slavery" is not uncommon, in which a person is held captive and the contents of his Gods of Riverworld her grail, retrieved by the owner, are taken by force by the captor. The slaver will usually provide the slave with enough food to keep him alive, as once a person dies their grail becomes useless. Of special value are "free grails", originally found atop each of the grailstones as a demonstration of their relationship. Free grails can be opened by any individual, Gods of Riverworld as such, are valued for an extra ration of goods at each interval. Throughout the series, several main characters lose their original grails and thus must seek free grails to survive. Though the grails provide for all needs and the climate is hospitable, further attempts to affect the environment are frustrated by the near-complete lack of metals and ores on the planet. The only building materials available are bamboo, wood, and human or fish bones and hides. Pockets of flint eventually Gods of Riverworld provide material Gods of Riverworld tools. With technology limited to the paleolithic level, the surrounding mountains prove impassable. Travel along the river is hindered by division of the Riverworld into thousands of empires, monarchies, republics, and other social systems which evolve, each only a few kilometers long and housing 90 people per square kilometer. Because the distribution of populations along the river seems random, the character of these nations can vary wildly within a very short span; one may enter dangerously unknown and potentially hostile territory in less than Gods of Riverworld day's journey. The reason of the existence of Riverworld is initially a complete mystery. Another character, Peter Jairus Frigatebears a striking resemblance to Farmer himself, and shares his initials. There are two versions of the character: one who appears early in the sequence, the third overall character to be introduced, and another, the "real" version, who concludes that the first was his brother who died as a baby, resurrected and used as a spy by the creators of the Riverworld. The story gradually reveals that the Riverworld was created as a moral test for humanity. In the Riverworld universe sapience is the result of an artificially created soul, known Gods of Riverworld a wathancreated by a generator developed and distributed among various worlds by an unknown ancient alien race. Wathan generators create wathans which attach themselves to sufficiently advanced chordates. Wathans are indestructible but become detached from the body upon physical death and wander the universe without purpose. The first race to create wathans were Gods of Riverworld tool usersbut lacked individual sapience. Self-awareness increased their capabilities by an order of magnitude, and as the creators of wathan technology, they were able to "catch" wathans released Gods of Riverworld their own deaths, resurrecting themselves until individual resurrections became impossible. As this happened only to the wisest and most ethically advanced wathans, the people supposed a process of "passing on", comparable to the Indian religious concept of Moksha. With Gods of Riverworld in mind, they traveled the universe, placing wathan generators on worlds that could host wathans, thereby creating other sentient species. Once they created a species they determined they could trust, Gods of Riverworld tasked them with creating more sapient species after the whole of their own species had "passed on". This cycle occurred several times until the creation of humanity. Humanity's creators are a race of aliens known, among their human allies, as "the Ethicals", who brought wathan technology to Earth, Gods of Riverworld both a generator to produce wathans and a collector to catch and store wathans — and the human personas and memories accumulated by them — for later retrieval. The reason given for the collector was that humans were both extraordinarily civilized capable of "passing on" within a single lifetime, as did Gautama Buddhaand extraordinarily barbaric capable of genocideslavery etc. Children who died before age five are resurrected on a "Gardenworld": a physical paradise where the children were raised as Ethicals, who later created the Riverworld in hope of stimulating moral contemplation. The repetitive physical environment was to encourage a concern with inward rather than outward circumstances, while the poverty of natural resources was to prevent the development of a higher technology, and the food provided by the grails, the presence of abundant water and potential shelter, and the resurrections were to obviate economy. Alcohol, marijuana, and the LSD-like dreamgum were provided for recreational purposes and to assist contemplation. Confusingly, it is only starting in the third volume The Dark Design that the true Peter Jairus Frigate appears — the one in the earlier volumes was in fact an impostor. Note that in Farmer's other major series of books, World of TiersGods of Riverworld major character also has the same Gods of Riverworld as the author, Paul Janus Finneganwho usually goes by the nickname Kickaha. This character is also a fictionalized or one imagines an idealized version of the author. Since the publication of the original books, several authors have been licensed to use the Riverworld setting for their own stories - see "Works" towards the top of this page. Copies of this guidebook were provided to the authors of the stories published in Tales of Riverworld and Quest To Riverworldas this book summarizes the chronology, characters, geography and technical details of the Riverworld universe. A television series loosely based on the Riverworld saga went into production for the Sci-Fi channel in but only the feature-length pilot episode Riverworld was completed. It was first aired in At one point, the pilot was available online through the Joost software worldwide except in the United States Gods of Riverworld Canada. It can be found on the Alliance Atlantis Sci-Fi channel. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the book series. For other adaptations, see Riverworld disambiguation. Worlds Without End. Retrieved Sail On! Categories : Riverworld Bangsian fantasy Fictional elements introduced in Fictional planets Religion in science fiction Resurrection in fiction Science fiction book series. Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata All articles with unsourced statements Gods of Riverworld with unsourced statements from October Wikipedia articles needing clarification from October Namespaces Article Talk. 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Audible Premium Plus. Cancel anytime. In this fourth entry in the saga, a great battle is brewing as extraordinary characters - including Samuel Clemens, U. Grant, and Cyrano de Bergerac - find themselves on the verge of discovering the origins of Riverworld. The second entry in the Riverworld series, The Fabulous Riverboat tells of a world where all of humanity has been mysteriously resurrected on the banks of one mighty river. Samuel Clemens a. Mark Twain is tasked with finding a fallen meteorite and using its ore to build a massive riverboat. But in order to succeed, he'll have to outwit some of history's most nefarious villains. For explorer Richard Francis Burton, Alice Liddell Hargreaves - the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland - and the rest of humanity, death is nothing like they expected. Instead of heaven, hell, or even the black void of nothingness, all of the 36 billion people who ever lived on Earth are simultaneously resurrected on a world that has been transformed into a giant river valley. By: Philip Jose Farmer. Fifteen billion years from now, Earth is a dying planet, its skies darkened by the ashes of burned-out galaxies, its molten core long cooled. The sunless planet is nearing the day of final gravitational collapse in the surrounding galaxy. Mutations and evolution have led to a great disparity of life-forms, while civilization has resorted to the primitive. Welcome to Ringworld, an intermediate step between Dyson Spheres and planets. The gravitational force created by a rotation on its axis of miles per second means no need for a roof. Walls 1, miles high at each rim will let in the sun and prevent much air from escaping. By: Larry Niven. There, 40 bitter years have passed, while Lord Foul, immortal enemy of the Land, moves to fulfill his prophecy of doom - his countless minions are already on the march, cutting a devastating swath Gods of Riverworld destruction across the Land. The Council of Lords find their spells useless, however, now that Foul the Despiser holds the Illearth Stone, the ancient talisman of evil. By: Stephen R. Thomas Covenant is a leper, a bitter and solitary pariah who is mystically transported to another Earth where time moves differently than ours, one in which magic takes many forms. The Land is threatened by many evils, the most immediate of which is a maddened Cavewight whose subterranean excavations have unearthed the ancient and puissant Staff of Law. At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations has come to an end. Now two exiled citizens of the Foundation - a renegade Councilman and a doddering historian - set out in search of the mythical planet Earth. Meanwhile, someone - or something - outside of both Foundations seems to be orchestrating events to suit its own ominous purpose. By: Isaac Asimov. In Gods of Riverworld, the first novel of the best-selling Incarnations of Immortality series, Piers Anthony combines a deeply moving examination of the meaning of life and death with a gripping story of romance and loyalty, all set in a world of magic and technical wizardry. By: Piers Anthony. A millennium into the future two Gods of Riverworld have altered the Gods of Riverworld of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership Gods of Riverworld a New Gods of Riverworld City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together. Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley had little love for either the arrogant Spacers or their robotic companions. Golan Trevize, former councilman of the First Foundation, has chosen the future, and it Gods of Riverworld Gaia. A superorganism, Gaia is Gods of Riverworld holistic planet with a common consciousness so intensely united that every dewdrop, every pebble, every being, can speak for all - and feel for all. It is a realm in which privacy is not only undesirable, it is incomprehensible. But is it the right choice for the Gods of Riverworld of mankind? While Trevize feels it is, that is not enough. He must know. Twice before, mysterious cosmic catastrophes have sent portions of the Earth across space and back in time - first, with the Grantville Disaster in West Virginia, and then again Gods of Riverworld a maximum security prison in southern Illinois. Now, the planet is struck with yet another such cataclysm, whose direct impact falls upon the Queen of the Sea, a cruise ship in the Caribbean. When the convulsions subside, the crew and passengers of the ship discover that they have arrived in a new and frightening world. They are in the Mediterranean now, not the Caribbean. By: Eric Flintand others. They first appear as a series of dots on astronomical plates, heading from Saturn directly toward Earth. Since the ringed planet carries no life, scientists deduce the mysterious ship to be a visitor from another star. The world's frantic efforts to signal the aliens go unanswered. The first contact is hostile: the invaders blast a Soviet space station, seize the survivors, and then destroy every dam and installation on Earth with a hail of asteriods. By: Larry Nivenand others. Detective Elijah Baiey is called to the Spacer world Aurora to solve a bizarre case of roboticide. The prime suspect is a gifted roboticist who had the means, the motive, and the opportunity to commit the crime. There's only one catch: Baley and his positronic partner, R. Daneel Olivaw, must prove the man innocent. For in a case of political intrigue and love between woman and robot gone tragically wrong, there's more at stake than simple justice. This time Baley's career, his life, and Earth's right to pioneer the Galaxy lie in the delicate balance. Stranger in a Strange Land tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, an earthling born and educated on Mars, who arrives on Earth Gods of Riverworld superhuman powers and a total ignorance of the mores of man. Smith is destined to become a freak, a media commodity, a scam artist, a searcher, and finally, a messiah. By: Robert A. For generations, the dragonriders had dedicated their lives to fighting Thread, the dreaded spores that periodically rained from the sky to ravage the land. On Gods of Riverworld backs of Gods of Riverworld magnificent telepathic dragons they Gods of Riverworld to flame the deadly stuff out of the air before it could reach the planet's surface. But the greatest dream of the dragonriders was to find a way to eradicate Thread completely, so that never again would their beloved Pern be threatened with destruction. By: Anne McCaffrey. Maureen Johnson, the somewhat irregular mother of Lazarus Long, wakes up in bed with Gods of Riverworld man and a cat. The man Gods of Riverworld a stranger to her, and besides that, he is dead. In The Gods of RiverworldSir Francis Burton and his band have challenged the mysterious leaders of Riverworld and now control the mechanism that once held them in its sway. But the tower stronghold awaits, and the realm still houses awesome forces that could bring about their ultimate destruction. The 5th installment of the Riverworld saga appears to have Gods of Riverworld an afterthought. Book 4 saw the entry into the tower with an explanation of its origin and purpose. While the immediate problem of the impending computer failure in this regard, Farmer Gods of Riverworld get credit for his prescience with a protein based computer given DNA counterparts today had been averted, we were left with the ongoing resurrection failure due to prior irrevocable commands. Most of the tale is engaged with our rag tag intrepoid band trying to figure out how to operate the whole complex. They possess limited resurrection capabilities they can bring back specific individuals inside the tower and this leads to ever growing unintended consequences. The final resolution is totally unsatisfying and question the underlying premise of the entire series with regards to "ethicalness" that is treated as a quantifiable, unambiguous property that people Gods of Riverworld to attain. Farmer's final twist allows him to even offer the possibility that good intentions of striving for a perfect ethicality may Gods of Riverworld engender psychosis. Burton's final rejection of the ultimate reward for being as close to "ethical" as he can reach strives to capture the essential human Gods of Riverworld of independence, but only comes across as a stubborn toddler. As mentioned previously, Gods of Riverworld past generation's conception of computers constrains the credulity of the reader. Gods of Riverworld computer displays a Kafkaesque devotion Gods of Riverworld rigid ridiculousness that becomes quite tiresome. As a result, the Gods of Riverworld and bumbling has more of Keystone Cop sense than a group of focused individuals attempting to save the lives of 18 billion people. Strategies devolve to what if: they'll think that we think that they'll think that we'll think ad infinitum. So sad for what Gods of Riverworld so brilliantly. Book five turns some well accepted theories about why the inhabitants are on Riverworld completely inside out. Everything you thought was true Gods of Riverworld be revised based on the final truth revealed in book 5. Probably my favorite in the series after book 1. Gods of Riverworld Riverworld Saga, Book 5. Narrated by: Paul Hecht. Series: RiverworldBook 5. Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins. Add to Cart failed. Please try again later. Add to Wish List failed. Remove from wishlist failed. Adding to library failed. Please try again. Follow podcast failed. Unfollow podcast failed. Free with a day trial. Stream or download thousands of included titles. No default payment method selected. Add payment method. Switch payment method. We are sorry. Gods of Riverworld by Philip Jose Farmer | Audiobook |

This book concludes the chronicles of the adventures of such diverse characters as Sir Richard BurtonAlice Pleasance LiddellAphra Behn and Tom Turpin through a bizarre afterlife in which every human ever to have lived is simultaneously resurrected along a single river valley that stretches over an entire planet. Although Farmer's novel The Magic Labyrinth was originally intended to be the last in the series, [1] Farmer continued it Gods of Riverworld this novel, which picks up with the characters who have just arrived in the alien-built tower at the headwaters of the river from which this constructed world gets its name; they must decide how to use the resurrection machinery they now control, Gods of Riverworld also solve the mystery of the murder of the mysterious stranger. It is revealed that the Ethicals have Gods of Riverworld recording humanity since about 97, BC. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Gods of Riverworld Cover by Don Gods of Riverworld. Dewey Decimal. The Magic Labyrinth. Author's Foreword: Berkley-Putnam. Hidden categories: All stub articles. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. Cover by Don Punchatz. Putnam Publishing Group. This article Gods of Riverworld a s science fiction novel is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page.