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« on: February 07, 2012, 03:01:AM » |
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To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Philip José Farmer, 1971)
Richard Francis Burton dies. He then wakes up in a different world. In this world, he is naked, as are everyone else. There is no technology expect the fact that it seems that everyone that has died has been resurrected. Is this the afterlife as promised by all religions? Is this an alien world? An experiment?
The name Burton sounded familiar to me at first, and I soon realized, he is an actual person. Burton was responsible for translating “A Thousand and One Nights” and also “A Perfumed Garden”, a sexual Islamic book, that its translation brought a lot of controversy for Burton when he translated. I have read the first volume of the former and I have read the latter, but Burton also travelled extensively in the Middle East, and wrote about that, which is something, I have always planned to read.
Back to the plot, there are a lot of stories that have someone wake up in a different world and figure out what’s what. I like stories of humans trying to survive in a world without any technology but with advanced knowledge, which is why I love post-apocalyptic stories, which this story, is somewhat like that. The story is the first part in a series of stories based on this world, and I would like to know what happens next.
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