The Fabulous Riverboat
- 253
- Pages
- about 4.5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Fabulous Riverboat” is an idea-rich second Riverworld novel, best read straight after the first. This time Samuel Clemens takes centre stage, and Philip José Farmer keeps asking whether people can truly change. Some readers rank it well below the opening book and find its handling of racism far clumsier than the earlier novel’s treatment of antisemitism.
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About the book
The Fabulous Riverboat is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip José Farmer, the second book in the Riverworld series.
Reading order · Riverworld
Full order & progress →- To Your Scattered Bodies GoStart here
7.77.7 / 10 - The Fabulous RiverboatThis book
7.67.6 / 10 - The Dark Design
–Not ranked yet - The Magic Labyrinth
–Not ranked yet - Gods of Riverworld
–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.1 across 66 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 31% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.6 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 6.9 | 11 | 17% |
| Hardcover | 7.1 | 55 | 83% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Fabulous Riverboat?
It has 253 pages — shorter than 87% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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