To Your Scattered Bodies Go

About this book

All those who ever lived on Earth have found themselves resurrected--healthy young and naked as newborns--on the grassy banks of a mighty river in a world unknown. Miraculously provided with food but with no clues to the meaning of their strange new afterlife billions of people from every period of Earths history--and prehistory--must start again. Sir Francis Bacon would be the first to glimpse the incredible way-station a link between worlds. This forbidden sight would spur the renowned 19th-century explorer to uncover the truth. Along with a remarkable group of compatriots including Alice Liddell Hargreaves (the Victorian girl who was the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland) an English-speaking Neanderthal a WWII Holocaust survivor and a wise extraterrestrial Burton sets sail on the magnificent river. His mission: to confront humankinds mysterious benefactors and learn the true purpose--innocent or evil--of the Riverworld . . .