Years have passed on Riverworld. Entire nations have risen, and savage wars have been fought--all since the dead of Earth found themselves resurrected in their magnificent new homeworld. Yet the truth about the Ethicals, the powerful engineers of this mysterious "afterlife," remains unknown. But a c
The Dark Design (Riverworld Saga, Book 3)
β Scribed by Philip Jose Farmer
- Publisher
- Tor Books
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Series
- Riverworld Saga 3
- Edition
- First Edition
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Milton Firebrass, once Mark Twain's enemy and now his greatest ally, plans to build a giant airship that can fly to the North Pole of Riverworld.Β Once there, he hopes to learn the secret of the mysterious tower that dominates the landscape and find the answer to his most urgent question: could the tower contain the Ethicals, the enigmatic beings that created Riverworld? Meanwhile, Jill Gulbirra is challenged for the job of piloting the airship by none other than Cyrano de Bergerac. As if there were not enough challenges facing the crew, they soon suspect there is an agent of the Ethicals among their number, plotting their destructionβ¦.
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