Philip Jose Farmer

For explorer Richard Francis Burton, Alice Liddell Hargreaves-the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland - and the rest of humanity, death is nothing like they expected. Instead of heaven, hell, or even the black void of nothingness, all of the 36 billion people who ever lived on Earth are simultaneously resurrected on a world that has been transformed into a giant river valley. With hunger and disease eliminated, Burton and the others appear to have...

Philip Jose Farmer created one of SF's most mind-blowing, critically acclaimed, and popular series of all time with the installments of his Riverworld series. In The Gods of Riverworld, Sir Francis Burton and his band have challenged the mysterious leaders of Riverworld and now control the mechanism that once held them in its sway. But the tower stronghold awaits, and the realm still houses awesome forces that could bring about their ultimate destruction....

Samuel Clemens, resurrected on the banks of Riverworld with the rest of humanity, wants to build a riverboat and steer it up his new home planet's waterway to discover its source, but first he must undertake a dangerous voyage to unearth a fallen meteor.

Riverworld is a mysterious and treacherous land where every human who died between the years 99,000 BC and 2200 AD has been resurrected on the banks of a colossal river. It is on the riverbank where a team bands together to try to unravel how and why they've arrived here, while coming face-to-face with some of the most dangerous people in history.