Talk:Riverworld
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[edit] Church of the Second Chance
To Rmhermen: Why did you remove the role of the Church in the spread of Esperanto? -- Error 03:58, 12 Oct 2003 (UTC)
- Esperanto spread in the books as the language of government and trade, not exclusively through the Church as the article stated. Rmhermen 17:19, Oct 13, 2003 (UTC)
No IIRC the Church played a major role in the spread of the language. Considering the obcurity of Esperanto among the resruectees it seems a little absurd that it would just become dominant "naturally"
I strongly agree with the view that the Cotsc was very responsible for the spread of Esperanto and believe that La Viro was even told to spread it. 82.13.113.81 19:32, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Writers of the Riverworld
It says in the article that other writers used the Riverworld. Who are they, and what did they write? -Litefantastic 12:35, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
There were two anthologies of Riverworld stories published. The only author I can recall offhand is Harry Turtledove, who wrote about A Byzantine Emperor and Richard Daley joining forces to conquer some African Muslims who were between their two kingdoms. Other stories featured Davey Crocket teaming up with Socrates, Shakespeare escaping from Al Capone, Stephen Crane and some professional ball players on tour, and Elvis as a literal king. Like most anthologies some of the stories were quite good, some were so so and some were just rubbish.
[edit] Peter Jairus Frigate
At first, Frigate certainly *seems* to be a thinly-veiled author cameo. However, without wanting to give too many spoilers, later in the series it becomes apparent that the Frigate we met in 'To Your Scattered Bodies Go' is definitely *not* just a renamed Philip Jose Farmer. Hence "bears a striking resemblance" rather than "is a thinly-veiled representation of".
- Several of Farmer's stories include a character with the intials PJF, sometimes as a bit character, sometimes a major one. It's one of his quirks. CFLeon 05:49, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bring Back Riverworld!
Someone should start a petition or something to get Sci Fi channel to bring back Riverworld. I can't believe they stopped it after the first episode.--Ewok Slayer 05:34, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
Wasn't it a TV movie ?, not even a Pilot --62.220.161.10 10:49, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
I also thought it was a made for TV movie but the DVD case doesn't reveal much. It tells me only that Sci-Fi definitly produced it. 82.13.113.81 19:35, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Storyline
This following section is just plain wrong.
"There are no people from a time later than the early 21st century, ostensibly because an accident in space wiped out the human race at that time."
There are no humans on this verion of the Riverworld that lived after 1983. Anyone claiming to be from beyond this period is an agent for the ethicals. The story about the 'accident' which wipes out humanity is just that, a story. Later on in the series they explain that this verion of the Riverworld is meant to run for a couple more hundred years and then cleared. After which all of humanity born after 1983 would be loaded for the same period of time.
This series is so complicated, having read *all* books in the series is a must. Seems to me that whoever wrote the storyline has not done so.
- But the 1983 cut-off is not established until the later books. Reading them as a unit, I get the feeling that it was an afterthought that PJF came up with AFTER writing To Your Scattered Bodies Go. CFLeon 05:45, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
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- No, no, no. I am sure that Burton figures out the 1983 rule during To Your Scattered Bodies Go, thus his interrogation of the Ethical Agent in the same book. 82.13.113.81 19:37, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
