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The Alley GodISBN 0283484179 (0-283-48417-9)
Hardcover, Pan Macmillan
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The Dark DesignISBN 0345419693 (0-345-41969-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dark Design'Book summary:The Dark Design is the third book in the epic Riverworld saga, in which almost all of humanity has been resurrected on a strange planet along the shores of a river 22 million miles long. But why have humans been given another chance at life, and who is behind it all? That's what Sir Richard Francis Burton and Sam Clemens set out to discover in two earlier novels, one by riding the "suicide express" (if you die on Riverworld, you're resurrected again at a random point along the river) and the other steaming on the greatest riverboat ever seen. Now Milton Firebrass, Clemens's former enemy and now his No. 1 lieutenant, is planning to use the dwindling iron supply on the Riverworld to create a great airship, which can fly to the North Polar Sea far more quickly than any boat can travel. There he hopes to learn the secret of the mysterious tower thought to house the beings who created this planet.
Jill Gulbirra does not care as much about the mission as she wants the chance to captain the great airship, which in all likelihood will be the last airship ever constructed by humankind. But in landing the coveted role, she faces stiff competition--especially from the greatest swordsman of all time, Cyrano de Bergerac, who turns out to be a natural pilot. But even if Jill can win the command of the airship and even if the ship can reach the river's headwaters, there is no guarantee it can get through the mountain wall that surrounds the tower. And it's likely that one or more agents of the Ethicals--the creators of Riverworld--are on board the airship, plotting its downfall. Worse still, somewhere along the way the airship is sure to encounter the Rex Grandissimus, the steamboat stolen by Sam's archnemesis, King John Lackland. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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Dark Is the SunISBN 0345289501 (0-345-28950-1)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dark Is the Sun'Book summary:An epic adventure by the author of the award-winning Riverworld series.
Fifteen billion years from now, Earth is a dying planet, its skies darkened by the ashes of burned-out galaxies, its molten core long cooled. The sunless planet is nearing the day of final gravitational collapse in the surrounding galaxy. Mutations and evolution have led to a great disparity of life-forms, while civilization has resorted to the primitive.
Young Deyv of the Turtle Tribe knew nothing of his world's history or its fate. He lived only to track down the wretched Yawtl who had stolen his precious Soul Egg. Joined by other victims of the same thief--the feisty Vana and the plant-man Sloosh--the group sets off across a nightmare landscape of monster-haunted jungle and wetland. Their search leads them ultimately to the jeweled wasteland of the Shemibob, an ageless being from another star who knows Earth's end is near and holds the only key to escape. [via]More editions of Dark Is the Sun:
- Dark Is the Sun: ISBN 034529680X (0-345-29680-X)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - Dark Is the Sun: ISBN 0345332016 (0-345-33201-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - Dark Is the Sun: ISBN 0345339568 (0-345-33956-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - Dark Is the Sun: ISBN 0246113782 (0-246-11378-2)
Hardcover, Granada Publishing, Limited - Dark Is the Sun: ISBN 0345276841 (0-345-27684-1)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books - Dark Is the Sun: ISBN 0345289501 (0-345-28950-1)
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- Dark Is the Sun: ISBN 034529680X (0-345-29680-X)
DayworldISBN 0246126930 (0-246-12693-0)
Hardcover, Granada Publishing, Limited
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Dayworld BreakupISBN 0246137401 (0-246-13740-1)
Softcover, Grafton
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Dayworld RebelISBN 0246133627 (0-246-13362-7)
Softcover, Grafton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dayworld Rebel'Book summary:Second book in the "Dayworld" trilogy, which also includes "Dayworld" (1985) and "Dayworld Breakup" (1990). [via]
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The Fabulous RiverboatISBN 0345419685 (0-345-41968-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fabulous Riverboat'Book summary:In To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip José Farmer introduces readers to the awesome Riverworld, a planet that had been carved into one large river on whose shores all of humanity throughout the ages has seemingly been resurrected. In The Fabulous Riverboat, Farmer tells the tale of one person whose is uniquely suited to find the river's headwaters, riverboat captain and famous Earthly author Sam Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain). Clemens has been visited by "X," a mysterious being who claims to be a rebel among the group that created Riverworld. X tells Clemens where he can find a large deposit of iron and other materials that Clemens can use to build the greatest riverboat ever seen. Since there is virtually no metal on the planet, it will also give Clemens an unbeatable edge when it comes to battling the various warlike societies that dominate the Riverworld.
But Clemens is not alone in his quest for the iron, which arrives on the planet in the form of a giant meteorite. In fact, Clemens is besieged on all sides by forces determined to seize the precious ore, leading him to make a deadly pact with one of history's most notorious villains, John Lackland. Lackland's crimes during his reign as king of England were so hideous that no other English monarch will ever carry his name, and he's up to equally nefarious tricks on Riverworld. However, Clemens has a guardian angel in the form of Joe Miller, a giant subhuman with a big nose, a serious lisp, and a cutting wit. Miller has also been to the very headwaters of the river, where he saw a mysterious tower in the middle of the North Sea and where the creators of Riverworld are thought to reside. He will be an invaluable ally in completing the riverboat and sailing to the headwaters, but even an 800-pound giant may not be enough to help Clemens fulfill X's mission. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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The LoversISBN 034528691X (0-345-28691-X)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lovers'Book summary:Escaping the religious tyranny of a 31st-century Earth by a fluke assignment to the planet Ozagen, linguist Hal Yarrow found that the worst of Earth had followed him - Pornsen, his personal Guardian Angel, vigilant for any evidence of sin or wrong thinking. Conditioned by a lifetime of submission, Yarrow would have accepted Pornsen's constant spying as an unpleasant necessity and lost himself in the study of the language of Ozagen's intelligent dominant race, the Wogglebugs... but then, hidden in ancient ruins built by humanoids long vanished from the planet, he found Jeanette, a not-quite-human fugitive. For a Believer like Yarrow, unconsecrated contact with any female was forbidden - and love for an alien was unthinkable. But to Yarrow, in every way that counted, Jeanette was warmly and bountifully human. So Yarrow sought the aid of the amiably tolerant Wogglebugs to keep his harboring of Jeanette a secret - and at the same time concealed from his alien allies Earth's farreaching plans for them and their unexploited planet. Yet there was one secret Yarrow did not know and could not imagine... the very special nature and needs of the woman he loved! [via]
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The Magic LabyrinthISBN 0345419707 (0-345-41970-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Magic Labyrinth'Book summary:At the end of The Fabulous Riverboat, Sam Clemens finally set out in the great iron riverboat Not for Hire to reach the headwaters of the massive river on whose shores humanity has been resurrected. After 33 years on the river, Clemens and his crew--including the giant subhuman Joe Miller--are finally near the end of their journey, and only one obstacle remains: the evil Earthly king, John Lackland. John is waiting just upriver in the Rex Grandissimus, the first riverboat that Sam constructed and the one that John and his crew hijacked, and he's hell-bent on sinking Sam's boat (and vice versa). Complicating the battle is the fact that both ships likely contain agents of the Ethicals, the group of advanced beings who created Riverworld for reasons unknown. One or more of the Ethicals themselves may even be on board, as are various humans that the rebel Ethical, known as the Mysterious Stranger (but known to Clemens simply as X), enlisted in his cause, which may or may not lead to humanity's salvation.
The battle is set to take place along the shores populated by members of the Church of the Second Chance, a group that believes they must attain ethical perfection in order to proceed to the next phase of existence. The Second Chancers are not violent, but their charismatic leader, La Viro, may attempt to sink one or both of the iron ships in order to prevent the battle. Among the Second Chancers is former Nazi officer Hermann Goring, who had a run-in with Sir Richard Francis Burton in the first Riverworld novel, To Your Scattered Bodies Go. Burton and his companions--among them several people who were contacted by the Mysterious Stranger--are reluctantly serving on John's boat in order to reach the headwaters of the river. But will any of the humans working for X survive the coming battle? And if so, how can they possibly hope to penetrate the tower in the North Sea where the Ethicals are thought to reside? And what could lowly humans hope to do against a race so advanced that they can reshape entire planets and resurrect all of humanity? --Craig E. Engler [via]
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More Than FireISBN 0312852800 (0-312-85280-0)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Night of LightISBN 0140033920 (0-14-003392-0)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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Nothing Burns in HellISBN 0312864701 (0-312-86470-1)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nothing Burns in Hell'Book summary:Master science fiction writer Philip Jose Farmer turns his hand to mystery with this violent-filled (but sexless) adventure set in Peoria, Illinois. A self-obsessed private detective married to a sincere Wiccan is hired to witness an illegal transfer of money in a cemetery. When the deal goes wrong, the P.I. ends up chasing the bad guys through all levels of Peoria's society, geography, and history. [via]
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Red Orc's RageISBN 0312850360 (0-312-85036-0)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Orc's Rage'Book summary:In 1978, Dr James Giannini invented Tiersian therapy, based on Farmer's series "World of Tiers". In this novel, Jim Grimson, undergoing Tiersian therapy, actually travels to worlds inhabited by the arrogant superrace, the Lords, and the Earthman's deadly foe, Red Orc. [via]
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Times Last GiftISBN 0345258436 (0-345-25843-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Times Last Gift'Book summary:Ballantine Del Rey, 1977. FIRST REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION of this 1972 novel. "Three men and a woman onboard a timeship travel from 2070 AD to 12,000 BC - a journey that could never be repeated. For the passengers, all anthropologists, it was a once-in-a-million-lifetimes expedition... a chance to study primitive man as modern man never could. But none of them was prepared for what they would discover - or for the impact of their travels in a time that had yet to come..." [via]
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To Your Scattered Bodies GoISBN 0345419677 (0-345-41967-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Your Scattered Bodies Go'Book summary:To Your Scattered Bodies Go is the Hugo Award-winning beginning to the story of Riverworld, Philip José Farmer's unequaled tale about life after death. When famous adventurer Sir Richard Francis Burton dies, the last thing he expects to do is awaken naked on a foreign planet along the shores of a seemingly endless river. But that's where Burton and billions of other humans (plus a few nonhumans) find themselves as the epic Riverworld saga begins. It seems that all of Earthly humanity has been resurrected on the planet, each with an indestructible container that provides three meals a day, cigarettes, alcoholic beverages, a lighter, and the odd tube of lipstick. But why? And by whom?
That's what Burton and a handful of fellow adventurers are determined to discover as they construct a boat and set out in search of the river's source, thought to be millions of miles away. Although there are many hardships during the journey--including an encounter with the infamous Hermann Goring--Burton's resolve to complete his quest is strengthened by a visit from the Mysterious Stranger, a being who claims to be a renegade within the very group that created the Riverworld. The stranger tells Burton that he must make it to the river's headwaters, along with a dozen others the Stranger has selected, to help stop an evil experiment at the end of which humanity will simply be allowed to die. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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Traitor to the LivingISBN 0345274466 (0-345-27446-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The World of TiersISBN 0312857616 (0-312-85761-6)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The World of Tiers'Book summary:[via]The Tiers series chronicles the adventures of both Robert Wolff, a man from our world transported through space-time to a cosmos with dimensions and laws different from our own, and Kickaha the Trickster (a.k.a. Paul J. Finnegan, also from our contemporary world). Separately and together, the two heroes contend against the Lords who rule the separate universes, of which the marvelous many-leveled World of Tiers is the center. Mythological and legendary creatures and characters abound: centaurs and harpies, mermaids and Indians, aliens and beautiful women.More editions of The World of Tiers:
- The World of Tiers: ISBN 0312863772 (0-312-86377-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr - The World of Tiers: ISBN 0312857624 (0-312-85762-4)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr - The World of Tiers: ISBN 0312863764 (0-312-86376-4)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr - The World of Tiers: ISBN 0312857616 (0-312-85761-6)
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- The World of Tiers: ISBN 0312863772 (0-312-86377-2)
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