synopsis: Death offers Mort an apprenticeship and Mort accepts. When Mort can’t bring himself to take the life of his crush, he sets in motion all sorts of strangeness.
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synopsis: this is the second novel in the series Riverworld. This time Samuel Clemens is the main character and since sailing is much easier than walking he decides to build a river boat and use it to find the source of the river and whatever may be waiting there.
Riverworld – To Your Scattered Bodies Go
Genres: Sci Fi
1972, Hugo Award
my review:
(March 19, 2011) * * * * 1 votes
synopsis: this is book one of the Riverworld series, evidently now a tv movie. The novel begins with adventurer Sir Richard Francis Burton waking up after his death on a strange new world made up of one ongoing river. He discovers that he is one of billions of previously dead personalities from throughout Earth’s history stretching through 2008 AD.
