NOVEL / SCIENCE FICTION
Putnam 77-136810
Hardcover / 1971
First Printing
Cover Artist: Ira Cohen
Book one of the Riverworld series and Hugo Award number three. Anyone who reads science fiction is familiar with the premise, everyone who has ever lived (up to 1984) is resurrected on the banks of a million mile long river. Their bodily needs are taken care of and if you are killed you wake up the next morning somewhere else on the river. The true genius of this idea is that Farmer can take any of his heroes, from any period in time, and let them interact. This book looks at Sir Richard Francis Burton, famed translator of the 1001 Arabian Nights and discoverer of the source of the Nile. Burton meets many interesting and famous people and also hangs out with Peter Jarius Frigate (note the initials).
Originally serialized in Worlds of Tomorrow.
Berkley 425-02333
Paperback / 1973
Second Paperback Printing
Cover Artist: Vincent Di Fate
Rapp & Whiting 190-8
Hardcover / 1973
First British Hardcover
Cover Artist: Unknown
Panther 03939-2
Paperback / 1974
First British Paperback
Cover Artist: Unknown
Granada 03939-2
Paperback / 1979
Cover Artist: Unknown
Granada 03939-2
Paperback / 1980
Cover Artist: Unknown
Gregg 2620-6
Hardcover / 1980
No dust jacket
SFBC 2676
Hardcover / 1980
Cover Artist: Vincent Di Fate
Berkley 08198-2
Paperback / 1981
Cover Artist: Don Ivan Punchatz
Warner Audio Publishing
Abridged Audio Book / 1985
Cover Artist: Don Ivan Punchatz
Warner Audio Publishing
0-681-32773-1
Abridged Audio Book / 19??
Cover Artist: Don Ivan Punchatz
Harper Collins 03939-2
Paperback Hardcover / 1993
Later British Paperback
Cover Artist: Unknown
SFBC
Hardcover / 2004
Cover Artist: Unknown
Tor
Trade Paperback / 2010
With THE FABULOUS RIVERBOAT
as RIVERWORLD
Cover Artist: Unknown