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“A feast for the imagination.”
—Los Angeles Times
“A virtual playground for SF’s growing fascination with history.”
—Locus
“Farmer’s blend of intellectual daring and pulp-fiction prose found a world-wide audience…sprawling, episodic works gave him room to explore the nuances of a provocative premise while indulging his taste for lurid, violent action.”
—The New York Times
“An excellent science fiction writer, far more skillful than I am.”
—Isaac Asimov
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Now Riverworld's omnipotent leaders have been confronted, and the renegades of Riverworld--led by the intrepid Sir Richard Francis Burton--control the fantastic mechanism that once ruled them. But the most awesome challenge lies ahead. For in the vast corridors and secret rooms of the tower stronghold, an unknown enemy watches and waits to usurp the usurpers . . .
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Pretty bad,
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This review is from: The Gods of Riverworld (Paperback)
This book wasn't necessary. Book 4 ties up pretty much everything and this book is simply tedium ad infinitum. Lots of people playing in their private paradises, etc.Somewhat arbitrarily, a lot of what is explained in book 4 turns out to be a lie. Guess that makes sense, as X is more or less nuts, but still annoying
3.0 out of 5 stars
Didn't age well for me,
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This review is from: The Gods of Riverworld (Paperback)
Try as I might, I could not get into this book as much as I wanted to. I originally read this book (all of the series) back in 1987-8 and I remember liking the books quite a bit. Now the writing seemed stilted and the plot heavy handed.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Needlessly lengthy, yet still good,
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This review is from: The Gods of Riverworld (Paperback)
I kept thinking while reading this book that an editor would have been well employed in trimming a third to half this book's unnessicary length, excursions into personal histories, silly subplots, and pontifications of various charachters. However, once finished it did leave me feeling satisfied that the series had closed well and the issues had been solved sufficently for the time being. Of course, I could envision the possibility of yet another book about the return of the Ethicals at the projects end and how the new tower dewllers interact with them. Loga, the renegade Ethical, having delivered his special team into the tower in the end of the last book is mysteriously killed, leaving the team wondering what is going on, and on a mission to find his killer. In the meantime, they develop thier own problems by resurecting people from thier past, and these people resurect more and more people within the tower, posing possible overcrowding problems and possible war. Much of the unnessicary length is in this section, but in the end everyone but three of the origional team have been killed, the Wathans, or souls of billions released from thier holding tank, and the body recordings of everyone erased from the computer. At this point the conclusion may make you groan or laugh, but if you've enjoyed the riverworld series up to this point you'll probably like it.
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