Science Fiction · EpicHumanity is resurrected on the shores of a mysterious river, and Richard Francis Burton wakes among them
To Your Scattered Bodies Go
Humanity wakes on the shores of one endless river
Putnam published the novel in June 1971. It was earlier serialized as two novellas in Worlds of Tomorrow, "The Day of the Great Shout" (January 1965) and "The Suicide Express" (March 1966). Humanity has been resurrected on the shores of a mysterious river that seems to extend endlessly, and Richard Francis Burton, the British adventurer, wakes there with other revived people and begins to explore. The cast also includes Alice Liddell and Hermann Göring. The title comes from John Donne's seventh Holy Sonnet.
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Who
Richard Francis Burton, Kazz, Peter Jairus Frigate, Alice Liddell and Hermann Göring.
World
A river valley where all of humanity has been resurrected.
What makes it different
The title comes from the seventh of John Donne's Holy Sonnets. It is based on Farmer's earlier unpublished novel Owe for the Flesh, and it opens the Riverworld series.
Feel
Adventurous and strange.
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Further reading
- To Your Scattered Bodies GoWikipedia