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0-425-04314-2. A BERKLEY BOOK

First in the famous Riverworld Series

PHILIP

JOSE FARMER

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BEST NOVEL

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THIRTEENTH PRINTING

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His wife had held him in her arms as if she could keep

death away from him.

He had cried out, "My God, I am a dead man!"

The door to the room had opened, and he had seen a

giant, black, one-humped camel outside and had heard the

tinkle of the bells on its harness as the hot desert wind

touched them. Then a huge black face topped by a great

black turban had appeared in the doorway. The black

eunuch had come in through the door, moving like a

cloud, with a gigantic scimitar in his hand. Death, the

Destroyer of Delights and the Sunderer of Society, had

arrived at last.

Blackness. Nothingness. He did not even know that his

heart had given out forever. Nothingness.

Then his eyes opened. His heart was beating strongly.

He was strong, very strong! All the pain of the gout in his

feet, the agony in his liver, the torture in his heart, all were

gone.

It was so quiet he could hear the blood moving in his

head. He was alone in a world of soundlessness.

A bright light of equal intensity was everywhere. He

could see, yet he did not understand what he was seeing.

What were these things above, beside, below him? Where

was he?

He tried to sit up and felt, numbly, a panic. There was

nothing to sit up upon because he was hanging in

nothingness. The attempt sent him forward and over, very

slowly, as if he were in a bath of thin treacle. A foot from

his fingertips was a rod of bright red metal. The rod came

from above, from infinity, and went on down to infinity.

He tried to grasp it because it was the nearest solid object

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WELCOME TO

RIVERWORLD

It is not like our world-or any world that can be

imagined by anyone but Philip José Farmer. It is huge

and mysterious. It has a central river, rimmed by

mountains, with a hidden source and an unknown

end. Reborn there is every last soul who ever-lived

on Earth-from prehistoric apemen to moondwelling

future civilizations.

Reborn there is Sir Richard Francis Burton, translator

of "The Arabian Nights," explorer, brawler, scholar,

womanizer-adventurer. His quest to discover the end

of the river, the meaning of this world's existence-

and lovely Alice Hargreaves (the real-life model for

Alice in Wonderland) form a science fiction adventure

that is already recognized as a classic.