"The Dark Design" by Philip Jose Farmer. NY: Berkley/Putnam, (1977). First edition. Jacket Art by Vincent Di Fate
This is the third book in Farmer's Riverworld series, a sequel to "The Fabulous Riverboat."
"The Dark Design" continues the adventures of Sir Richard Francis Burton, Mark Twain, Peter Frigate, and millions of others, from various times in the history of Earth, who have all been mysteriously resurrected on a strange planet known as Riverworld. Their problem is to find their way to the headwaters of the fabulous river, and to find the enigmatic beings who have accomplished their resurrection.
A television series loosely based on the Riverworld saga went into production for the Sci-Fi channel in 2001 but only the feature-length pilot episode Riverworld was completed. It was first aired in 2003. It used elements from "To Your Scattered Bodies Go" and "The Fabulous Riverboat." In 2010, a 4-hour TV movie, Riverworld was produced and released by Syfy (formerly The Sci-fi Channel) in the US and by Studio Universal elsewhere, written by Robert Hewitt Wolfe. The protagonist is Matt Ellman, an American war reporter, played by Tahmoh Penikett. The main villain is Richard Francis Burton, although in the books he is the protagonist and is written more as a hero than a villain.
"The Dark Design" by Philip Jose Farmer. NY: Berkley/Putnam, (1977). First edition. Jacket Art by Vincent Di Fate
This is the third book in Farmer's Riverworld series, a sequel to "The Fabulous Riverboat."
"The Dark Design" continues the adventures of Sir Richard Francis Burton, Mark Twain, Peter Frigate, and millions of others, from various times in the history of Earth, who have all been mysteriously resurrected on a strange planet known as Riverworld. Their problem is to find their way to the headwaters of the fabulous river, and to find the enigmatic beings who have accomplished their resurrection.
A television series loosely based on the Riverworld saga went into production for the Sci-Fi channel in 2001 but only the feature-length pilot episode Riverworld was completed. It was first aired in 2003. It used elements from "To Your Scattered Bodies Go" and "The Fabulous Riverboat." In 2010, a 4-hour TV movie, Riverworld was produced and released by Syfy (formerly The Sci-fi Channel) in the US and by Studio Universal elsewhere, written by Robert Hewitt Wolfe. The protagonist is Matt Ellman, an American war reporter, played by Tahmoh Penikett. The main villain is Richard Francis Burton, although in the books he is the protagonist and is written more as a hero than a villain.