Name: To your scattered bodies go
ISBN: 9780425028094

To your scattered bodies go

Imagine that every human who ever lived, from the earliest Neanderthals to the present, is resurrected after death on the banks of an astonishing and seemingly endless river on an unknown world. They are miraculously provided with food, but with not a clue to the possible meaning of this strange afterlife. And so billions of people from history, and before, must start living again.

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codingclawsDec 2025

Neuromancer - 2nd time I read it. Such a good book.

To Your Scattered Bodies Go - 2nd time I read it. Cool book. It's about a world with a big river where humans are reborn after they die on earth.

Use of Weapons - 2nd time I read it. One of the more popular Iain Banks Culture novels.

Dungeon Crawler Carl #1 - Loved it.

Matter - 2nd time I read it. This is another Banks Culture novel. This book is actually very good. Most of it takes places on a megastructure planet with different levels.

Assassin's Apprentice - I don't get the hype.

Memories of Ice - 3rd Malazan book. I thought the first quarter was lit.

Cursed Cocktails - Cozy fantasy, good book.

I log all my read books here [0].

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DigitalHookwormOct 2025

Blown / Image of The Beast by Philip Jose Farmer More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer Norstrillia by Cordwainer Smith

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nazgulnarsilAug 2009

I have a list I've put together for fans of sci-fi that have only read the standard stuff (asimov, clarke, niven, heinlein)

1. The Cyberiad 2. Babel-17 3. The Stars My Destination 4. The Sheep Look Up 5. More Than Human 6. Lord of Light 7. To Your Scattered Bodies Go 8. Earth Abides 9. Gateway 10. City

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nazgulnarsilJul 2008

Here is a real list, shorter and MUCH higher quality: 1. The Cyberiad 2. Babel-17 3. The Stars My Destination 4. The Sheep Look Up 5. More Than Human 6. Lord of Light 7. To Your Scattered Bodies Go 8. Earth Abides 9. Dying Inside 10. City 11. Last and First Men 12. Slan 13. The World of Null-A

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nazgulnarsilMar 2008

depends on the subgenre :)

Superhuman: Slan by A.E. Van Vogt More Than Human by Theodore STurgeon Odd John by Olaf Stapledon

Post Apocalyptic: The Day of The Triffids by John Whyndham Earth Abides by George R. Stewart A Canticle for Lebowitz by...don't remember

Space Opera/Adventure: any of The Culture novels by Iain M. Banks The Reality Dysfunction series by ...don't remember Hyperion series by Dan Simmons To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer

Dystopian: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin <---highly overlooked, predates 1984 and Brave New World

But the Absolute Best would be anything by: Stanislaw Lem (Cyberiad, Futurological Congress, Solaris) Alfred Bester (The STars my Destination, The Demolished Man) or Samuel R. Delany (Babel-17, Dhalgren, Trtion, Nova) oh and Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light and This Immortal are both great.

Some of Philip K. Dick's stuff is great, but everyone recommends him. :)

almost forgot John Brunner, check out Steel Beach, The Sheep Look Up, and Stand on Zanzibar.

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