To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer

The former explorer would be the first person to witness the remarkable portal between the two worlds -the so-called way-station.

Even though they don’t know how the new strange world works, everyone who has ever lived on the Earth – throughout the eons of human existences –must begin the cycle of life again. For instance, food is served every day in an almost miraculous way. They’re confused but their every need is met.

Everyone who dies on Earth awakens on a grassy bank of a million-mile-long river that stretches the length of this unknown world, which appears to be an alien lab of some sort. In the same year, it also won a Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.Īfter the death of the famous English explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton on Earth, he’s resurrected in another strange world as a hairless, naked, and healthy newborn. It scooped the 1972 Hugo Award for Best Novel at the 30th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) which was held in Los Angeles, California. That aside, To Your Scattered Bodies Go became something of an overnight success soon after its initial release in 1971, perhaps riding the popularity craze of Riders of the Purple Wage (1968) and Behind the Walls of Terra (1970). Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go ” “At the round earth’s imagined corners blow

You may recognize that Farmer lifted the title from John Donne’s famous Holy Sonnet VII: A fantastic mystery sandwiched in a riddle, To Your Scattered Bodies Go is the debut novel in Philip José Farmer’s highly acclaimed Riverworld series.

To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer