To Your Scattered Bodies Go

Sir Richard Francis Burton had been sure that when he died, the world would cease to exist. Imagine his surprise, then, to wake up from his death in 1890 in a "heaven" no one ever dreamed of. At its center was a seemingly endless river, rimmed by insurmountable mountains, studded with food-generatin

*To Your Scattered Bodies Go* is the Hugo Award-winning beginning to the story of Riverworld, Philip José Farmer's unequaled tale about life after death. When famous adventurer Sir Richard Francis Burton dies, the last thing he expects to do is awaken naked on a foreign planet along the shores of a

The first combined edition of the first two Riverworld novels, To Your Scattered Bodies Go and The Fabulous Riverboat. Imagine that every human who ever lived, from the earliest Neanderthals to the present, is resurrected after death on the banks of an astonishing and seemingly endless river on an u