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The Dark Design (Riverworld Saga) | 
 enlarge | Author: Philip Jose Farmer
Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc.
Category: Book
List Price: £14.95
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 298538
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st Ballantine Books Ed
Pages: 464
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0345419693
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780345419699
ASIN: 0345419693
Publication Date: September 1, 1998
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 Totally disapointing - avoid it! August 25, 1999
I hate it when authors go back and change around what happened in previous books in later books - and in this book PJF does it in spades, changing both the plot and nature of the characters he introduced in the earlier books. It's unbelievable and uninteresting. Read the first book in the series, and leave it at that.
 Probably the greatest book in the series July 30, 1999
The Dark Design was the greatest book of the Riverworld Saga. It is a must have book for anyone who is a Philip Jose Farmer fan or anyone who has read any of the other Riverworld book. The Dark Design is science fiction at its best.
 Down We Go June 3, 1999
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Call me silly, but I think that the level of the story drops steadily from book one through this one. Now, after the Riverboat is built, dirigibles come into the picture (now why didn;t I think of that!?). Okay, Sam Clemens and his cohorts are hot on the heels of King John the dastardly. Are they going to get him? The enterprising dirigible pilot Jill Gulbirra (of the Clemens lot) finally reaches the mysterious tower at the center of the polar sea. I won;t spoil it for you by giving it away. Let me just tell you that it is ..ahem.. less than revealing. But the absolutely worst sin of this book are the endless parentheses dedicated to Peter Frigate's dreams and reminiscences which say absolutely nothing. At the start of the book, Farmer points out the autobiographical genesis of Frigate's character but he still is (at least so far) a very minor character that simply does not justify the soporific dream sequences.
 A grand follow-up to The Fabulous Riverboat January 9, 1999
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I became a PJF fan in the years between this book and the Fab. Riverboat. It was a tough wait, then I saw it show up in the bookstores. Wow!.. Mr Farmer did a fine job in writing this book and in keeping the reader's attention. He went into such character depth that they became "real", even those based on real persons. He did quite a job of writing himself as the character of Peter Frigate. The daunting task of building a dirigible, the nightmares of Clemens, the voyage of the Rex and the Ra and the Snark, all kept me daydreaming of the journey up the mighty River. I could hardly sit still the next 4 years until The Magic Labyrinth finally came out.
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