Philip José Farmer: River of Eternity

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River of Eternity

Genre	Science Fiction
Type	Novel
Series	Riverworld

This was written in 1952 for the Shasta Science Fiction Prize Novel Contest as (I) Owe for the Flesh. It won the contest, but never got published back then (see also PJF's Biography). Farmer slightly revised the rediscovered second version of the original Riverworld novel for this publication.
DEDICATION: "To my wife, Bette, whose perception and courage have enabled me to write. Thanks are due also to John Bloomquist and Randall Garrett for their invaluable suggestions and work in preparing the map and the manuscript."

COVER TEXT:
River of Eternity was written some thirty years ago. This is the first publication anywhere.
In 1952 Philip José Farmer made the decision to enter the Shasta Science-Fiction Prize Novel Contest. He won that contest and River of Eternity was to be published the following year. The fact that it has never seen print until this edition makes its history one of the most interesting in the publishing industry.
River of Eternity is the revised version of the original Riverworld novel which formed the basis for the five novels in Farmer's highly acclaimed Riverworld series. It differs in many respects from the later novels in the series but is filled with all the adventure and sense of wonder which has made Philip José Farmer one of the most widely read and important science fiction writers for more than three decades.
(Phantasia Press)

PUBLICATION HISTORY
| US | RUSSIA |

4 Publications

Publisher Series+no. Bookno. Format Date Pages Price Cover art Notes	FIRST PUBLICATION Huntington Woods, MI: Phantasia Press - ISBN 0-932096-28-X hardcover (23,5×15,5cm) 11/1983 205 $ 17.00 John Pound Trade edition of two thousand and five hundred copies. With beige linen boards and bronze lettering on the spine. 'P.J.F.' blindstamped on the front board. Both editions were published simultaneously. Stated 'First Edition' on the copyright page. The book number is on the inside front flap of the dustjacket wrongly printed as ISBN 0-923096-28-X. With an author's introduction.	John Pound

Publisher Series+no. Bookno. Format Date Pages Price Cover art Notes	FIRST PUBLICATION Huntington Woods, MI: Phantasia Press - ISBN 0-932096-28-X hardcover (23,5×15,5cm) 11/1983 205 $ 40.00 John Pound Limited, specially bound edition of five hundred copies, signed and numbered by Farmer, in a slipcase. With beige rough linen boards and bronze lettering on the spine. 'P.J.F.' in bronze on the front board. With an extra signature page at the back of the book, and special endpapers. The slipcase is also covered with beige rough linen. Both editions were published simultaneously. Stated 'First Edition' on the copyright page. The book number is on the inside front flap of the dustjacket wrongly printed as ISBN 0-923096-28-X. With an author's introduction.	John Pound

RUSSIA

Title Latin Omnibus Latin Publisher Series+no. Bookno. Format Date Pages Price Translation Cover art Notes	Russian: Река Вечности Reka Vechnosti in Миры Филипа Фармера - T. 10 in Miry Filipa Farmera - T. 10 Riga: Polaris - ISBN 5-88132-175-8 hardcover [no dustjacket] (20,5×13,5cm) 10/1996 334 not priced S. Trofimov & I. Vasiliev M. Gerasimov Pictorial boards. With an author's introduction ("Предисловие автора"). Omnibus, together with the stories "Riverworld", "Up the Bright River" and "Coda".	M. Gerasimov

Title Latin Omnibus Latin Publishers Series+no. Bookno. Format Date Pages Price Translation Cover art Notes	Russian: Река Вечности Reka Vechnosti in Темные замыслы in Temnyye zamysly Moscow: AST St Petersburg: Sewero-Zapad Press Золотая библиотека фантастики ISBN 5-17-010429-4 / ISBN 5-93698-061-7 hardcover [no dustjacket] (20,5×13cm) 11/2001 703 not priced M. Nachmanson M. Kalinkin Pictorial boards. With an author's introduction ("Вступление автора"). Omnibus, together with The Dark Design.	M. Kalinkin

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