Hugo Award Best Novel Winner
To Your Scattered Bodies Go
by Philip José Farmer
Summary
Every human who ever lived awakens resurrected along the banks of an endless river on a mysterious world, including the Victorian explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton, who sets out to learn who engineered this afterlife and why. Farmer mixes real historical figures with sweeping adventure and metaphysical mystery as Burton journeys upriver in defiance of his unseen creators. The novel launched the popular Riverworld series.
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Historical Context & Significance
It is the opening volume of Farmer's Riverworld saga, which became one of the most widely read science fiction series of the 1970s and 1980s.