Riverworld
Sign in to saveThe Riverworld series consists of five science fiction novels (1971–1983) by American author Philip José Farmer (1918–2009). The Riverworld is an artificial, or heavily terraformed, planet where all humans (and pre-humans) who ever lived throughout history have been resurrected. The novels (and a few shorter works) explore interactions of resurrected individuals from many different cultures and time periods. The underlying theme is quasi-religious. The motivations and ethics of the unknown intelligences that created the Riverworld and its inhabitants are explored.
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- Fictional location.name
- Riverworld
- Fictional location.first
- "The Day of the Great Shout" (1965 novelette)
- Fictional location.last
- "Coda" (1993 short story)
- Fictional location.creator
- Philip José Farmer
- Fictional location.genre
- Planetary romance, Pocket universe, Philosophical fiction
- Fictional location.type
- Fictional planet
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- www.pjfarmer.com/WORKS-series-riverworld.html
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- Riverworld
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22 sectionsContents
- Works
- Original, unpublished manuscript
- Magazine publications
- Published novels (and short stories)
- Story
- Setting
- Overview
- Resurrectees
- Language
- Grails
- Natural resources and travel
- Purpose
- Academic study
- Elaborations and adaptations
- Role playing game (1989)
- "Shared Universe" stories (1992 and later)
- Video game (1998)
- Television series (2003)
- Television movie (2010)
- Fan fiction
- References
- External links
The Riverworld series consists of five science fiction novels (1971–1983) by American author Philip José Farmer (1918–2009). The Riverworld is an artificial, or heavily terraformed, planet where all humans (and pre-humans) who ever lived throughout history have been resurrected. The novels (and a few shorter works) explore interactions of resurrected individuals from many different cultures and time periods. The underlying theme is quasi-religious. The motivations and ethics of the unknown intelligences that created the Riverworld and its inhabitants are explored.
The series' cast of characters includes (among others) Cyrano de Bergerac, Richard Francis Burton, Hermann Göring, John, King of England, Alice Liddell, Jack London, Tom Mix, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Odysseus, and Mark Twain.