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405:. The valley averages 9 miles (14 km) in width, but includes narrows and occasional widenings into lakes with islands. From source to mouth, the original supposition of the river's length is 20,000,000 miles, as said by Alice Hargreaves and attributed to Peter Frigate, shortly after the defeat of Hermann Goering. (Books I, II, and III later state the river is 10,000,000 miles (16,000,000 km) long). There are no seasons, and daily variations are metronomic. The only animal life consists of fish and soil worms. The vegetation is lush and of great variety, including trees, flowering vines, several kinds of fast-growing bamboo, and a resilient mat of grass which covers the plains. The Riverworld has no visible moon, but a great number of stellar objects in the sky, including gas sheets and stars close enough to show a visible disk. 512:"dreamgum". To operate, grails must be placed onto large, mushroom-shaped "grailstones", found at intervals along the riverbanks, which produce an electrical discharge three times per day (corresponding to the times of breakfast, lunch and dinner). As agriculture is absent, and indeed impossible on the Riverworld, the grails are vital to an individual's survival, and cannot be opened except by their individual owners. Nevertheless, "grail slavery" is not uncommon, in which a person is held captive and the contents of his or her grail, retrieved by the owner, are taken by force by the captor. The slaver will usually provide the slave with enough food to keep him or her alive, as once a person dies their grail becomes useless. 472:
a limit to the number of resurrections available to each person; one of the main protagonists is warned by the creators of the Riverworld that after 777 deliberate suicides he is in danger of failing to resurrect after his next death. No one who was less than five years old at death is resurrected on the Riverworld, nor are people deemed to be incurably insane (it is eventually revealed that these people were resurrected on another planet, Gardenworld). No hominids born before the approximate year
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hope of stimulating moral contemplation. The repetitive physical environment was to encourage a concern with inward rather than outward circumstances, while the poverty of natural resources was to prevent the development of a higher technology, and the food provided by the grails, the presence of abundant water and potential shelter, and the resurrections were to obviate economy. Alcohol, marijuana, and the LSD-like dreamgum were provided for recreational purposes and to assist contemplation.
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modifications are removed; whereas certain neurological impulses (for instance, curiosity or chemical addiction) remain intact. These bodies do not age, and can regenerate nearly any non-fatal injury, including dismemberments and blindings. The new bodies are completely free of infection and seem resistant to it (albeit in the absence of hostile bacteria or viruses on the Riverworld). Initially hairless, the bodies grow cephalic hair and pubic hair at a normal rate. Men do not have
129:, planet where all humans (and pre-humans) who ever lived throughout history have been restored to life. The novels (and a few shorter works) explore interactions of resurrected individuals from many different cultures and time periods. The underlying theme is quasi-religious. The motivations and ethics of the unknown intelligences that created the Riverworld and its inhabitants are explored. 624:. With this in mind, they traveled the universe, placing wathan generators on worlds that could host wathans, thereby creating other sentient species. Once they created a species they determined they could trust, they tasked them with creating more sapient species after the whole of their own species had "passed on". This cycle occurred several times until the creation of humanity. 593:, bears a striking resemblance to Farmer himself, and shares his initials. There are two versions of the character: one who appears early in the sequence, the third overall character to be introduced, and another, the "real" version, who concludes that the first was his brother who died as a baby, resurrected and used as a spy by the creators of the Riverworld. 185:, over six weeks in the fall of 1952 and submitted it at the last minute to the Shasta Science-Fiction Novel Prize Contest. He won the contest, with assurances of publication, but circumstances conspired to ensure that that would not happen for many years. The complete manuscript, now believed lost, consisted of four "books": 511:
The resurrected awaken with nearly-indestructible containers tied to their wrists, commonly called "grails", which produce food, drink, pieces of cloth, and luxury items, such as alcohol, tobacco, marijuana (and lighters for same), hair care utensils, makeup, and a hallucinogenic chewing gum known as
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Anyone who died at an age younger than 25 assumes a body equivalent to that lesser age, which then ages at a normal rate before stopping at 25. Should an individual die, they are resurrected elsewhere along the banks of the river at random. Some people even use this process to travel, though there is
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which snakes across its entire surface. The river's source is a small North Polar sea, from which it follows a course tightly zig-zagging across one hemisphere before flowing into another, along an equally labyrinthine path, to the same sea. The river has an average depth of 1.5 miles (2.4 km),
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Humanity's creators are a race of aliens known, among their human allies, as "the Ethicals", who brought wathan technology to Earth, installing both a generator to produce wathans and a collector to catch and store wathans—and the human personas and memories accumulated by them—for later retrieval.
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Travel along the river is hindered by division of the Riverworld into thousands of empires, monarchies, republics, and other social systems which evolve, each only a few kilometers long and housing 90 people per square kilometer. Because the distribution of populations along the river seems random,
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increased their capabilities by an order of magnitude, and as the creators of wathan technology, they were able to "catch" wathans released by their own deaths, resurrecting themselves until individual resurrections became impossible. As this happened only to the wisest and most ethically advanced
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On the Riverworld, every human who ever lived and died – from the earliest Neanderthals up to 1983 – is resurrected on the banks of a seemingly endless river on an unknown planet. Along the river's almost 18 million twisting and turning miles, some 36.6 billion humans
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etc.), and therefore might or might not be trusted with wathan technology; an ambiguity meant for resolution by the Riverworld. Children who died before age five are resurrected on a "Gardenworld": a physical paradise where the children were raised as Ethicals, who later created the Riverworld in
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Of special value are "free grails", originally found atop each of the grailstones as a demonstration of their relationship. Free grails can be opened by any individual, and as such, are valued for an extra ration of goods at each interval. Throughout the series, several main characters lose their
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and its width ranges from 6.8 miles (10.9 km) to 24.8 miles (39.9 km). It is shallow near the shore but plunges to enormous depths towards the channel. The banks are generally smooth and gentle, expanding into wide plains on either side, then assuming jagged hills before an impenetrable
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Though the grails provide for all needs and the climate is hospitable, further attempts to affect the environment are frustrated by the near-complete lack of metals and ores on the planet. The only building materials available are bamboo, wood, and human or fish bones and hides. Pockets of flint
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In about 1981, and in the wake of the success of the Riverworld novels, Farmer issued a general request to anyone who might have the original manuscript. An 80,000-word document entitled "River of Eternity" was then discovered in a garage and returned to Farmer. This turned out to be, not the
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Most of the resurrected awaken in a body equivalent to that of their 25-year-old selves, in perfect health and free of any previous genetic or acquired defects. All heart disease, tooth decay, and blindness are gone, all amputated limbs are restored, and all scars, tattoos and other body
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with aliens visiting Earth. The protagonists later find this a creative fiction, produced by the masterminds of the resurrection. Undercover agents of these masters placed on the Riverworld would identify themselves as having died after 1983 so as to be recognized by fellow agents.
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In each area are initially three groups of people: a large group from one time period and place, a smaller group from another time and place, and a very small group of people from random times and places (most of the 20th- and 21st-century humans are part of this last group).
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The only Ethical seen in the stories is Monat Graatut, who poses as an ally and friend of Richard Francis Burton. The reason given for the collector was that humans were both extraordinarily civilized (capable of "passing on" within a single lifetime, as did
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Because all human languages are initially in use on the Riverworld, the Ethicals are not able to explain clearly to the resurrected Humans what's happening. In order to explain without misunderstanding, they must first spread a common language. They choose
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who at that time edited a number of prominent science fiction magazines. Pohl suggested that Farmer break the novel into several novelettes for serial publication in his periodicals. Farmer agreed, and thus the fourth version of what started out as
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One of the themes of the series is the way historical characters change as a result of this cosmopolitan setting. For example, one of the characters depicted in the first book of the Riverworld series,
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Some people set sail upon the great river to quest for the meaning of their resurrection, and to find and confront their mysterious "benefactors". Among the denizens of the Riverworld, we meet Sir
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With no prospect of imminent publication, Farmer moved on to other projects. But in 1963 and '64, he rewrote the material into a second version and in late 1964 into a third, which he now called
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in 1971. Thus the fifth, and final, version of the Riverworld sequence comprises the four "mainstream" (Farmer's term) novels (1971-80) listed below, plus the extra "sidestream" book,
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who ends up as a missionary of the Church of the Second Chance, a peaceful religion. Apparently left to their own devices, the people re-create their Earthly societies.
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the character of these nations can vary wildly within a very short span; one may enter dangerously unknown and potentially hostile territory in less than a
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original, but a version produced in the mid-1950s by Farmer (who had entirely forgotten about it) from the third "book" at the request of the publisher
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along the river. Of these, 20% are from the 20th century, due to the high population thereof. Originally the cutoff year was given as 2008 in
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Excerpt: To Your Scattered Bodies Go - An excerpt from the first novel in Philip José Farmer's Riverworld series, published by Random House
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As to the novelette that remained a "standalone" — "Riverworld" — it underwent a slight expansion and was included in Farmer's collection
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Of these five novelettes, four — all but "Riverworld" — were expanded and combined into the first two Riverworld novels as published by
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The reason for the existence of Riverworld is initially a complete mystery. In Farmer's books a number of historical figures—including
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Starting in the "late twenty second century", the Riverworld has been engineered by an alien race to consist solely of a single long
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The 1966 magazine version was about 12,000 words. The final "definitive" version is about 33,750 words. (See Farmer's "Forward" in
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Peter Jairus Frigate is a fictionalized version of Philip José Farmer. Confusingly, it is only starting in the third volume
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to be the common language and create a religion called the Church of the Second Chance to spread it via travelling priests.
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The story gradually reveals that the Riverworld was created as a moral test for humanity. In the Riverworld universe
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are miraculously provided with food, but with no clue to the possible meaning or purpose of this strange afterlife.
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The Generic Universal Role Playing System (GURPS) sourcebook for Riverworld adventure, by Steve Jackson Games
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wathans, the people supposed a process of "passing on", comparable to the Indian religious concept of
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anthology series, with numerous authors being invited to participate. Two volumes were released:
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Since the publication of the original books, several authors have been licensed to use the
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in 1971. After one more (final) expansion and polishing, it was included in the collection
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that the true Peter Jairus Frigate appears—the one in the earlier volumes was in fact an
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The Book of Philip José Farmer, or the Wares of Simple Simon’s Custard Pie and Space Man
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software worldwide except in the United States and Canada. It can be found on the
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The story of Riverworld begins when 36,006,009,637 humans, varying from the first
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were saved for the Riverworld project and thus were never resurrected anywhere.
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universe have been published through the official Philip José Farmer website.
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setting for their own stories - see "Works" towards the top of this page.
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Sci-Fi Wire: "How the Riverworld movie event will meander from the books"
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as the villain. At one point, the pilot was available online through the
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Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe
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This article is about the book series. For other adaptations, see
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was completed. It was first aired in 2003. It used elements from
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and is generally considered to be of mostly academic interest.
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In the early 1990s, it was decided to turn Riverworld into a
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The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 3: Portraits of a Trickster
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Riverworld War: The Suppressed Fiction of Philip José Farmer
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13 years before finally saw publication as five novelettes:
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original grails and thus must seek free grails to survive.
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A licensed guidebook outlining the setting for use in the
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is the result of an artificially created soul, known as a
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The five novels in the Riverworld series are as follows:
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began when Farmer wrote a 150,000-word novel, calling it
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Farmer, Philip Jose (1983), "Author's Introduction" to
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Some stories written by fans and taking place in the
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Three books of the Riverworld series are analyzed in
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The Worlds of Philip Jose Farmer: Protean Dimensions
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Index

Peter Jairus Frigate
Riverworld (disambiguation)
Philip José Farmer
Planetary romance
Pocket universe
Philosophical fiction
Fictional planet
fictional planet
science fiction
Philip José Farmer
artificial
terraformed
Richard Francis Burton
Mark Twain
Odysseus
Cyrano de Bergerac
Hermann Göring
Tom Mix
Melvin Korshak
Phantasia Press
River of Eternity
Frederik Pohl
Worlds of Tomorrow
Worlds of If
Putnam Publishing Group
To Your Scattered Bodies Go
The Fabulous Riverboat
The Dark Design
The Magic Labyrinth
Gods of Riverworld

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