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![]() Richard Burton (the explorer, not the actor) attempts to find out What Is Really Going On, aided in later volumes by Samuel Clemens / Mark Twain.Ĭoming back to the first book 25 years after I first read it, I am sorry to say that I found it pretty dire. There is a brilliant central sensawunda concept: all of humanity who ever lived (up to the year 2008, and who survived past the age of seven) are resurrected on the shores of a world-twisting river, apparently as some gigantic social anthropology experiment. ![]() Will the magic survive? I had fond memories of Farmer's four-part Riverboat series, despite the very unsatisfactory ending, and the peculiarly anal accuracy of some descriptions ("the mountains were seven miles or 11265 metres high", if I remember correctly from one of the later books). ![]() NwhyteI am always a bit nervous about returning to books I enjoyed when I was much younger. ![]()
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