num_pages: 222
description: All those who ever lived on Earth have found themselves resurrected--healthy, young, and naked as newborns--on the grassy banks of a mighty river, in a world unknown. Miraculously provided with food, but with no clues to the meaning of their strange new afterlife, billions of people from every period of Earth's history--and prehistory--must start again.Sir Francis Bacon would be the first to glimpse the incredible way-station, a link between worlds. This forbidden sight would spur the renowned 19th-century explorer to uncover the truth. Along with a remarkable group of compatriots, including Alice Liddell Hargreaves (the Victorian girl who was the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland), an English-speaking Neanderthal, a WWII Holocaust survivor, and a wise extraterrestrial, Burton sets sail on the magnificent river. His to confront humankind's mysterious benefactors, and learn the true purpose--innocent or evil--of the Riverworld . . .
language: English
title: To Your Scattered Bodies Go
titlecomplete: To Your Scattered Bodies Go
characters: Hermann Göring, Alice Liddell, Richard Francis Burton
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Novels, Hugo Awards, Fantasy, Audiobook
ratings_count: 31605
series: Riverworld
awards: awardedAt: 63100800000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 63100800000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Berkley