Riverworld-Farmer's best-known and most-beloved series. Riverworld-the first book of which, To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971), garnered Farmer the coveted 1972 Hugo Award for Best Novel at the 30th World Science Fiction Convention. Riverworld-the high concept series from one of science fiction's greatest imagineers, a world covered in a meandering river millions of miles long, on the shores of which every human being who ever lived has been resurrected. . .
Samuel Clemens. Sir Richard Francis Burton. Alice Hargraves. Baron de Marbot. Tom Mix. Peter Jairus Frigate. King John of England. Jack London. Li Po. Hermann Göring. Cyrano de Bergerac. Lothar von Richthofen. Odysseus. Joe Miller.
Clocking in at almost six hundred pages, Riverworld Odyssey is a journey through every piece of associated fiction, every pertinent essay, letter, article, and speech, every item of ephemera we could gather, in one Brobdingnagian volume, to tell the story-the history-of one of science fiction's greatest series.
Philip José Farmer (1918–2009) was an American author, principally known for his science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories. He spent much of his life in Peoria, Illinois. Farmer is best known for his Riverworld series and the earlier World of Tiers series. He is noted for his fascination for and reworking of the lore of legendary pulp heroes, and occasional tongue-in-cheek pseudonyminous works written as if by fictional characters.
