To Your Scattered Bodies Go
- Kategoria:
- fantasy, science fiction
- Cykl:
- Świat Rzeki (tom 1)
- Tytuł oryginału:
- To Your Scattered Bodies Go
- Wydawnictwo:
- Granada / Panther Books
- Data wydania:
- 1980-01-01
- Data 1. wydania:
- 1980-01-01
- Liczba stron:
- 207
- Czas czytania
- 3 godz. 27 min.
- Język:
- angielski
- ISBN:
- 0586039392
Awards
Hugo Best Novel
All those who ever lived on Earth have found themselves resurrected--healthy, young, and naked as newborns--on the grassy banks of a mighty river, in a world unknown. Miraculously provided with food, but with no clues to the meaning of their strange new afterlife, billions of people from every period of Earth's history--and prehistory--must start again.
Sir Richard Francis Burton would be the first to glimpse the incredible way-station, a link between worlds. This forbidden sight would spur the renowned 19th-century explorer to uncover the truth. Along with a remarkable group of compatriots, including Alice Liddell Hargreaves (the Victorian girl who was the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland), an English-speaking Neanderthal, a WWII Holocaust survivor, and a wise extraterrestrial, Burton sets sail on the magnificent river. His mission: to confront humankind's mysterious benefactors, and learn the true purpose--innocent or evil--of the Riverworld ...