Woken Furies

Takeshi Kovac, mad killer, body hopping ex-Envoy Agent returns home to Harlan’s World-where  we find him busy body hopping, killing lots of people and using his Envoy skills.  Oh yeah, he has sex with a couple of people as well. Woken Furies has a lot going for it.  Many of the mysteries from the first two books are explored and Takeshi seems to have a mission in life for a change.  On the other hand, his mission is killing off fundamentalist believers, so that may not make him much of a hero in some people’s eye. I’ve read other sci-fi…

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To Your Scattered Bodies Go

Clearly Philip Jose Farmer wasn’t thinking about a series of books when he named this one To Your Scattered Bodies Go.  It’s a title I’ve heard from time to time and it’s made a few best Sci Fi Books lists here and there.  It’s one I recently got around to reading. To Your Scattered Bodies Go is the first of the Riverworld novels.  These are stories about a world that has been terraformed into an unending river and populated with everyone who ever lived on Earth.  It’s a concept that has some appeal, as a writer can plop down any…

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