The Dark Design
Riverworld: Book #3
- By: Philip Jose Farmer
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 18 hours 5 minutes
Description
Best-selling author Philip JosE Farmer crafted an SF landmark with his wildly imaginative Riverworld series. In this third installment, much has transpired since Earth's denizens found themselves resurrected along the shores of a river 22 million miles long. With the truth of this strange river's creators, the Ethicals, still shrouded in mystery, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Samuel Clemens, King John, and Cyrano de Bergerac face a fantastical voyage of discovery. "Charts a territory somewhere between Gulliver's Travels and The Lord of the Rings."-Time
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Riverworld Series

To Your Scattered Bodies Go
By: Philip Jose Farmer
Narrated by: Paul Hecht
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Original and provocative, To Your Scattered Bodies Go won the 1971 Hugo Award for outstanding science fiction novel and has continued to be a favorite of generations of new readers. For explorer Richard Francis Burton, Alice Liddell Hargreaves-the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland - and the rest of humanity, death is nothing like they... Read more »
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The Fabulous Riverboat
By: Philip Jose Farmer
Narrated by: Paul Hecht
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The second entry in the Riverworld series, The Fabulous Riverboat tells of a world where all of humanity has been mysteriously resurrected on the banks of one mighty river. Samuel Clemens (a.k.a.MarkTwain) is tasked with finding a fallen meteorite and using its ore to build a massive riverboat. But in order to succeed, he'll have to outwit some... Read more »
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The Dark Design
By: Philip Jose Farmer
Narrated by: Paul Hecht
Length: 18 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Best-selling author Philip JosE Farmer crafted an SF landmark with his wildly imaginative Riverworld series. In this third installment, much has transpired since Earth's denizens found themselves resurrected along the shores of a river 22 million miles long. With the truth of this strange river's creators, the Ethicals, still shrouded in... Read more »
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Gods of Riverworld
By: Philip Jose Farmer
Narrated by: Paul Hecht
Length: 12 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Hugo Award-winning author Philip JosE Farmer created one of SF's most mind-blowing, critically acclaimed, and popular series of all time with the installments of his Riverworld series. In The Gods of Riverworld, Sir Francis Burton and his band have challenged the mysterious leaders of Riverworld and now control the mechanism that once held them... Read more »
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