The Magic Labyrinth

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Author(s):

Philip José Farmer

First Pub:

1980

Genre(s):

Science Fiction

First Read:

2008

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Subject(s):

Science fiction

Chapters:

See 14

1 - The Mysterious Stranger

2 - Aboard the Not For Hire

3 - Aboard the Rex: The Thread of Reason

4 - On the Not For Hire: New Recruits and Clemens' Nightmares

5 - Burton's Sililoquy

6 - On the Not For Hire: The Thread of Reason

7 - Göring's Past

8 - The Fabulous Riverboats Arrive at Virolando

9 - The First and Last Dogfight on the Riverworld

10 - Armageddon: The Not For Hire vs. the Rex

11 - The Final Duel: Burton vs. Bergerac

12 - The Last 20,000 Miles

13 - In the Dark Tower

14 - Three-Cornered Play: Carroll to Alice to Computer

Internal ID:

1430

Series:

The Dark Design
Gods of Riverworld

Riverworld*

#4 of 5

Riverworld*

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1) To Your Scattered Bodies Go
2) The Fabulous Riverboat
3) The Dark Design
4) The Magic Labyrinth
5) Gods of Riverworld

Copyright:

Dedication:

For Harlan Ellison, Leslie Fielder,
and Norman Spinrad, livest of the live.

First Sentence:

"Everybody should fear only one person, and that person should be himself."

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

Imagination, I guess."

Comments:

Comments may contain spoilers

I read this after finishing The Dark Design.

Extract not on file

Added: 31-Jan-2015

Last Updated: 07-Apr-2023

01-May-1981

Berkley Books

Mass Market Paperback

Date Issued:

01-May-1981

Format:

Mass Market Paperback

Cover Price:

$2.75

Pages*:

400

Read:

Once

Reading(s):

1) 1 Jan 2008 - 1 Jan 2008

Cover Link(s):

Internet Speculative Fiction Database

amazon.com

Internal ID:

1554

Publisher:

Berkley Books

ISBN:

0-425-04854-3

ISBN-13:

978-0-425-04854-2

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Don Ivan Punchatz - Cover Artist

"SOMEWHERE BETWEEN GULLIVER'S
TRAVELS AND THE LORD OF THE RINGS!"
- TIME

You are in this book. So is everyone else who ever lives or ever will - all humanity simultaneously reincarneated on the banks of the 10 million mile river that forms the setting for what many consider to be the crowning achievement of modern science fiction."

"A FEAST FOR THE IMAGINATION"
- LOS ANGELES TIMES

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

Berkley-Putnam edition / June 1980
Berkley edition / May 1981

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To Your Scattered Bodies Go

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Author(s)

Philip José Farmer
Birth: 26 Jan 1918 Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
Death: 25 Feb 2009 Peoria, IL, USA

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