Re: To Identify a Story
- From: Sea Wasp <seawaspobvious@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 00:29:51 GMT
Scott wrote:
Hello,
I was in a library once years ago when I was a teenager.
I was reading a book that I never finished and when I
went back there I couldn't find it again (I don't know why
I didn't borrow it - I'd probably reached my limit).
It starts with souls (presumably the newly-dead) suspended
in a lattice of threads of light, who then awake naked in a
verdant paradise where enough fruit to eat well grows everywhere
and there are spigots giving clean water to everyone. However,
the characters end up in scenes of violence and general conflict
because that's what people do.
If that's all there was to eat, I'd go to violence because the only source of real FOOD would be my fellow men.
The book is, IIRC, To Your Scattered Bodies Go, by Farmer. First, I think, of the Riverworld series.
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