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In ''[[Riverworld]]'', the quest to solve the mystery of the resurrection and the river involves lots of vividly-described action adventure. As prose the action sequences have a great immediacy: combat seems at all times dangerous since the emergent chaos of battle is no [[Anyone Can Die|respecter of persons]].
If you only looked at the early covers of his books he would appear to be nothing more that a pulp writer obsessed with grim-looking, violent and [[Rated
''[[Riverworld]]'' addresses Big Ideas. Sex, politics, race, religion. Farmer loved messing with the divide between high and low culture. The deep problems of human life come up thick and fast in this series. Farmer broke new ground by having these themes coexist with fantasy action adventure -- prefiguring ''[[Discworld (Literature)|Discworld]]'' and many other works.
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