Tales of Riverworld

by Philip José Farmer

Riverworld (short stories)

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In this compilation of short stories, histor y meets the future as everyone who has ever lived awakens in Riverworld. Authors featured in the collection include Phil lip C. Jennings, Harry Turtledove and Ed. Gorman. '

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Per la prima volta in esclusiva assoluta tutti i racconti scritti da da Farmer sul Mondo del Fiume, riuniti in un unico “volume”. Tra questi anche un inedito per l'Italia, “Un Buco all'Inferno” (tradotto da noi), dove Dante Alighieri si ritrova anche lui invischiato nelle assurdita' di Riverworld alla ricerca disperata della sua Beatrice. Riverworld, il Mondo del Fiume, un pianeta percorso da un fiume infinito, sulle cui rive è radunata tutta l'umanità di tutti i tempi: trentacinque miliardi di uomini e donne che si sono svegliati all'improvviso per ricominciare una nuova vita dopo la morte. Resuscitati da un incredibile potere tecnologico per motivi che neanche lontanamente riescono a immaginare, personaggi di tutte le show more epoche, da Richard Francis Burton a Mark Twain, da Hermann Goring a Cyrano de Bergerac, da Giovanni Senza Terra a Tom Mix, vagano sulle sponde di questo incredibile fiume, uniti da un solo obiettivo: raggiungere le sue sorgenti ma, soprattutto, scoprire il segreto dell'origine del mondo e dei misteriosi esseri che hanno riportato in vita l'umanità per chissà quale strano esperimento. Le loro appassionanti vicende sono narrate nei cinque romanzi che formano il ciclo di Riverworld (gia' realizzati in digitale nella collana ItaBook dal l'ottimo Flick, al quale va il nostro sentito ringraziamento) In questi racconti sulle rive del Fiume altri straordinari personaggi inseguono la verità: il Dottor Faustroll, genio della patafisca, ovvero la scienza delle soluzioni immaginarie, il medico Andrew Paxton Davis, il re vichingo Ivar il Senzaossa e un nazzareno di nome Yoshua. show less

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Philip José Farmer was born in North Terre Haute, Indiana on January 26, 1918. He worked in a steel mill while attending Bradley University at night and writing in his spare time. In 1952, his story The Lovers, in which a human has sex with an alien, was published in a pulp magazine called Startling Stories and won him the Hugo Award in 1953 for show more most promising new author. He quit his job to become a full-time writer, but a string of misfortunes eventually forced him to take jobs as a manual laborer. He worked as a technical writer from 1956 to 1970, but continued writing science fiction. He finally found success in the 1960's with the Riverworld series. He wrote more than 75 books throughout his lifetime including the Dayworld series and the World of Tiers series. He also wrote short stories. He won the Hugo award for best novella in 1968 for Riders of the Purple Wage and for best novel in 1972 for To Your Scattered Bodies Go. In 1988, he was the recipient of the Writers of the Past Award and the Nova for best book for Riverworld. In 2001 he was awarded the Grand Master Award and the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award. He died on February 25, 2009 at the age of 91. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Tales of Riverworld
Original publication date
1992-08

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Fiction and Literature, Science Fiction
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813.0876208Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in EnglishBy typeGenre fictionAdventure fictionSpeculative fictionScience fictionCollections and anthologiesAnthologies
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PS648 .S3Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureCollections of American literatureProse (General)
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