Philip José Farmer
Author
Series
Riverworld volume 4
Language
English
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Description
This concludes the adventures of the Riverworld saga. It began when 35 billion men and women woke one morning to begin the first day of life after death. Resurrected by the power of an alien race, they wandered the banks of a ten-million mile long river in search of their makers and the answers to this mystery.
Author
Series
Riverworld volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Richard Francis Burton attempts to fight his way out of the Riverworld in which he finds himself trapped after death.
Author
Series
Riverworld volume 5
Language
English
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Description
Thirty-five billion people from throughout Earth's history were resurrected along the great and winding waterways of Riverworld. Most began life anew--accepting without question the sustenance provided by their mysterious benefactors. But a rebellious handful burned to confront the unseen masters who controlled their fate--and these few launched an invasion that would ultimately yield the mind-boggling truth. Now Riverworld's omnipotent leaders have...
Author
Series
Riverworld volume 3
Language
English
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Description
This third volume in the "Riverworld" series relates the adventures of those people from various times in history who have been resurrected on a strange planet.
5) Dayworld
Author
Series
Dayworld volume 1
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
Dayworld is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip José Farmer. Published in 1985, it is the first in the Dayworld tetralogy of novels inspired by Farmer's own 1971 short story "The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World".
Author
Series
Dayworld volume 3
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
William Duncan, the rebel daybreaker, and his lover, Panthea Snick, set out to reveal the dark secrets of Dayworld and the formula for long life and to end the repressive hegemony.
7) The lovers
Author
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
Escaping the religious tyranny of a 31st-century Earth by a fluke assignment to the planet Ozagen, linguist Hal Yarrow found that the worst of Earth had followed him - Pornsen, his personal Guardian Angel, vigilant for any evidence of sin or wrong thinking. Conditioned by a lifetime of submission, Yarrow would have accepted Pornsen's constant spying as an unpleasant necessity and lost himself in the study of the language of Ozagen's intelligent dominant...
Author
Series
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Farmer returns to his towering World of Tiers, where immortal Lords fight bloody wars over a host of pocket universes. Jim Grimson is a young man with problems who finally goes over the edge, gets placed in a mental hospital, and ends up in the World of Tiers. But is it therapy or reality? "A wide-screen adventure that never fails to provoke, amuse, and educate".--Time.
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Resurrected on the lush, mysterious banks of Riverworld, along with the rest of humanity, Samuel Langhorne Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain) has a dream: to build a riverboat that will rival the most magnificent paddle-wheelers ever navigated on the mighty Mississippi. Then, to steer it up the endless waterway that dominates his new home planet—and at last discover its hidden source. But before he can carry out his plan, he first must undertake a dangerous...
10) Riverworld
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Upon death, every human being who has ever lived awakens on the shore of an endless river on a strange world, and each begins living again, with some searching for answers upstream.
11) Dare
Author
Series
Publisher
Gregg
Pub. Date
c1980.
Language
English
Description
Though Earthmen first landed on the planet Dare 300 years earlier, they were still bound by the same standards of snobbery and fear... until Jack Cage, eldest son of a wealthy human, found himself strangely drawn to a spectacularly beautiful native. To consort with her meant death. But why? And what were humans doing on the planet anyway?
15) Green Odyssey
Author
Publisher
eBooksLib
Language
English
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Description
For two years Alan Green had lived without hope. From the day the spaceship had crashed on this unknown planet he had resigned himself to the destiny created for him by accident and mathematics. Chances against another ship landing within the next hundred years were a million to one. Therefore it would do no good to sit around waiting for rescue. Much as he loathed the idea, he must live the rest of his life here, and he must squeeze as much blood
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