Cover to Gods of Riverworld 1984 Putnam print

Gods of Riverworld (1983) is a science fiction novel, the fifth and last in the series of Riverworld books by Philip José Farmer. It was reprinted in 1998 by Del Rey under the title The Gods of Riverworld. Image File history File links Gods_of_riverworld_cover. ... Image File history File links Gods_of_riverworld_cover. ... G. P. Putnams Sons was a major United States book publisher based in New York City, New York. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Riverworld is a fictional universe and the setting for a series of science fiction books written by Philip José Farmer. ... Philip José Farmer (January 26, 1918, Peoria, Illinois) is an American author, principally known for his science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories. ... Del Rey Books is a branch of Ballantine Books, which is owned by Random House. ...

This book concludes the chronicles of the adventures of such diverse characters as Richard Burton, Cyrano de Bergerac, Alice Pleasance Liddell, Tom Mix and Samuel Clemens through a bizarre afterlife in which every human ever to have lived is simultaneously resurrected along a single river valley that stretches over an entire planet. Richard Burton CBE (November 10, 1925 – August 5, 1984) was a Welsh actor from the late 1940s through the 1980s. ... Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac (March 6, 1619 – July 28, 1655) was a French dramatist born in Paris, who is now best remembered for the many works of fiction which have been woven around his life story, most notably the play by Edmond Rostand which bears his name. ... Alice Pleasance Liddell (May 4, 1852 - November 16, 1934) was the inspiration for the heroine of the childrens classic Alices Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. ... Thomas E. Mix (January 6, 1880 – October 11, 1940) was an American film actor, the star of many early Western movies. ... Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was a famous and popular American humorist, writer and lecturer. ...

Although Farmer's 1980 novel The Magic Labyrinth was intended to end the series, Farmer returns to continue the story, in which the main characters have arrived at the alien-built tower at the headwaters and must decide how to use the resurrection machinery they now control, and also solve the mystery of the murder of the mysterious stranger. 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... The Magic Labyrinth (1980) is a science fiction novel, the fourth in the series of Riverworld books by Philip José Farmer. ...