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(ReacTor) Troubled Waters: Five SFF Works About Rivers
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James Nicoll
2025-01-16 15:52:13 UTC
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Troubled Waters: Five SFF Works About Rivers
Stories about rollin' on a river, featuring vampires, faeries,
goddesses, and more.
https://reactormag.com/troubled-waters-five-sff-works-about-rivers/
"Riverworld" et al, by Phillip Jose Farmer.
I don't think of it often. As I mention over on Reactor, I've reviewed
Riverworld in 2019, and mentioned it in passing in two other reviews,
but I never bothered rereading or reviewing the rest of the series.
My memory is that each new volume was a bit more meh than the one
before.
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Paul S Person
2025-01-16 16:49:35 UTC
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Post by James Nicoll
Troubled Waters: Five SFF Works About Rivers
Stories about rollin' on a river, featuring vampires, faeries,
goddesses, and more.
https://reactormag.com/troubled-waters-five-sff-works-about-rivers/
"Riverworld" et al, by Phillip Jose Farmer.
I don't think of it often. As I mention over on Reactor, I've reviewed
Riverworld in 2019, and mentioned it in passing in two other reviews,
but I never bothered rereading or reviewing the rest of the series.
My memory is that each new volume was a bit more meh than the one
before.
A damn fine description, IMHO.
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Tony Nance
2025-01-16 22:59:24 UTC
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Troubled Waters: Five SFF Works About Rivers
Stories about rollin' on a river, featuring vampires, faeries,
goddesses, and more.
https://reactormag.com/troubled-waters-five-sff-works-about-rivers/
While your astute self and your astute commenters mentioned three of the
four that came to my mind[1], nobody mentioned the fourth:

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim

Tony
[1] Fevre Dream (very good), Rivers of London (series - very good), and
Riverworld (series - read the first one, don't want to read any more)
Steve Coltrin
2025-01-17 15:33:24 UTC
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[Riverworld]
Post by James Nicoll
My memory is that each new volume was a bit more meh than the one
before.
It's pretty much a geometric series converging on "not as bad as Chalker
at his worst... quite".
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James Nicoll
2025-01-17 15:50:06 UTC
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[Riverworld]
Post by James Nicoll
My memory is that each new volume was a bit more meh than the one
before.
It's pretty much a geometric series converging on "not as bad as Chalker
at his worst... quite".
It's like Lost, in that the questions were far more interesting than the
answers.
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Dimensional Traveler
2025-01-17 16:07:55 UTC
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[Riverworld]
Post by James Nicoll
My memory is that each new volume was a bit more meh than the one
before.
It's pretty much a geometric series converging on "not as bad as Chalker
at his worst... quite".
It's like Lost, in that the questions were far more interesting than the
answers.
The producers of 'Lost' never HAD any answers, they just threw shit at
the viewers with no intention of providing answers.
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Ted Nolan <tednolan>
2025-01-17 16:33:08 UTC
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[Riverworld]
Post by James Nicoll
My memory is that each new volume was a bit more meh than the one
before.
It's pretty much a geometric series converging on "not as bad as Chalker
at his worst... quite".
It's like Lost, in that the questions were far more interesting than the
answers.
The producers of 'Lost' never HAD any answers, they just threw shit at
the viewers with no intention of providing answers.
I didn't see "Lost" so I have no opinion about that, but in Riverworld,
we were explicitly told things which were retconned to be false. I very
rarely like that.
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