Feb 4, 2025
Current reread…
Hot take… THE DARK DESIGN is better than Hugo-award winning TO YOUR SCATTERED BODIES GO and definitely better than the second book, THE FABULOUS RIVERBOAT.
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Current reread…
Hot take… THE DARK DESIGN is better than Hugo-award winning TO YOUR SCATTERED BODIES GO and definitely better than the second book, THE FABULOUS RIVERBOAT.
Riverworld Digital artwork by me, 2024
Okay but what was wrong with Riverworld, what did it do
(context in case this gets backed up for a month+ like you've alluded some asks do)
The script I wrote was chopped to shreds for budget (by another writer) and then the director had the actors improvise all their dialogue so it made no damn sense. They cast a lovely actress to play Tomoe Gozen, but she’s only like 1/4 Japanese, which is embarrassing. Mark Deklin and Peter Shinkoda did their best though, so bless them.
The novel 'To Your Scattered Bodies Go' by Philip J. Farmer was published for the first time between 1965 and 1966 in the magazine 'Worlds o
The novel "To Your Scattered Bodies Go" by Philip J. Farmer was published for the first time between 1965 and 1966 in the magazine "Worlds of Tomorrow" and in 1971 as a book. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novel of the Year. It's the first book in the Riverworld series.
Sir Richard Francis Burton dies in 1890 but wakes up in an unknown place where he finds himself surrounded by other people who, just like him, are naked and totally hairless but he seems to be the only one awake. He's trying to figure out what's going on when everyone is thrown into a valley next to a river.
The people in the valley include an alien from the Tau Ceti system who arrived on Earth in the early 21st century and a Neanderthal. Everyone says they died and found themselves there. On the riverside, there seem to be people everywhere, who could have created such an environment and resurrected all the sentient beings that ever existed on Earth?
Alan Cumming Filmography Part 3
Riverworld (2010)
The Tempest (2010)
Burlesque (2010)
The Smurfs (2011)
Any Day Now (2012)
Web Therapy (2011‑2015)
The Good Wife (2010-2016)
After Louie (2017)
Queers (2017)
Doctor Who (2018)
Karen Holness as MALI in RIVERWORLD – 2003
Art by Bruce Pennington for Riverworld by Philip Jose Farmer (Granada, 1980)