philip jose farmer to your scattered bodies go

Burton meets people from the past and from the future, among which a neanderthal named Kazz, and an alien who visited Earth in the future and died there.īesides the neanderthal and the alien, Burton collects some other figures around him to explore the riverworld: a Yankee from the future who is a self-insert of the author, a little girl from ancient Gaul, and Alice Liddell (on whom Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland was based). Every mile along the river, a concrete mushroom provides food, water and cigarettes.

In fact, every human who ever lived and died on Earth is resurrected in this endless valley. Together with him are thousands, millions of other new young hairless people, all waking up, and all people who had died. He has been given a hairless, young, fit body and wakes up in a grassy valley with a river running through it and mountains surround the valley on both sides of the river. Then he wakes up in a new world, in a new body. So what is the book about? The main character Sir Richard Francis Burton dies on the very first page. This book was interesting enough to win him the Hugo, however. A bit of an Edgar Rice Burroughs figure combined with the sex and drugs of the 60s and 70s. I would encourage you to do that, but be prepared that Farmer is a very dated and pulpy writer. And when I tell you what this book is about, you might want to read it for yourself. The thing about To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1972) is that it has a really intriguing concept, but is written down by a terribly mediocre writer.

Philip jose farmer to your scattered bodies go