The Magic Labyrinth (1980)

by Philip José Farmer

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Series: Riverworld (4), Riverworld Original Series (4)

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In the fourth and concluding volume of the Riverworld series, literally everyone who has ever lived, including Sir Richard Burton, Mark Twain, and Herman Goering, is resurrected along the banks of an enormous river on a mysterious planet.

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4th in Riverworld. End satisfactory but not best. Too much battle detail, scanty on philosophical discussion. Seemed to be tired of character development.

ritaer | Mar 11, 2020 |

Farmer is great. After 4 long books I'm ready to go for the 5th. he is a real story teller. (

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ikeman100 | Dec 31, 2018 |

I was gonna say something, but Edgeworth beat me to it. And said it better. It's clear to me why I didn't finish the series as it was published. (

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joeldinda | Oct 21, 2018 |

A fine addition to the River World series. Loved it. (

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ndpmcIntosh | Mar 21, 2016 |

we travel further up the river to the top of the world, dodging the evil Prince John and surrounded with the usual gang of the famous. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Philip José Farmer	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Di Fate, Vincent	Cover artist	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Grant, Melvyn	Cover artist	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Riverworld Series 1-6 (To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Fabulous Riverboat, Dark Design, Magic Labyrinth, Gods of Riverworld, Riverworld and Other Stories) by Philip José Farmer

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O labirinto mágico - 1 by Philip José Farmer

O labirinto mágico - 2 by Philip José Farmer

O labirinto mágico - 3 by Philip José Farmer

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The Magic Labyrinth

Original title

The Magic Labyrinth

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Original publication date

1980-05

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Sir Richard Francis Burton

Alice Liddell (Alice Pleasance Liddell)

Peter Jairus Frigate

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)

Hermann Göring

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Epigraph

Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Labyrinth's single clue ...

Where 'twill be man's to see the whole of what on Earth he sees in part ...

- The Kasidah of Haji Abdu Al-Yazdi

Dedication

For Harlan Ellison, Leslie Fiedler, and Norman Spinrad, alivest of the alive.

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

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In the fourth and concluding volume of the Riverworld series, literally everyone who has ever lived, including Sir Richard Burton, Mark Twain, and Herman Goering, is resurrected along the banks of an enormous river on a mysterious planet.

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