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To Rmhermen: Why did you remove the role of the Church in the spread of Esperanto? -- Error 03:58, 12 Oct 2003 (UTC)
No IIRC the Church played a major role in the spread of the language. Considering the obcurity of Esperanto among the resruectees it seems a little absurd that it would just become dominant "naturally"
I strongly agree with the view that the Cotsc was very responsible for the spread of Esperanto and believe that La Viro was even told to spread it. 82.13.113.81 19:32, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
It says in the article that other writers used the Riverworld. Who are they, and what did they write? - Litefantastic 12:35, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
At first, Frigate certainly *seems* to be a thinly-veiled author cameo. However, without wanting to give too many spoilers, later in the series it becomes apparent that the Frigate we met in 'To Your Scattered Bodies Go' is definitely *not* just a renamed Philip Jose Farmer. Hence "bears a striking resemblance" rather than "is a thinly-veiled representation of".
Someone should start a petition or something to get Sci Fi channel to bring back Riverworld. I can't believe they stopped it after the first episode.-- Ewok Slayer 05:34, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
This following section is just plain wrong.
"There are no people from a time later than the early 21st century, ostensibly because an accident in space wiped out the human race at that time."
There are no humans on this verion of the Riverworld that lived after 1983. Anyone claiming to be from beyond this period is an agent for the ethicals. The story about the 'accident' which wipes out humanity is just that, a story. Later on in the series they explain that this verion of the Riverworld is meant to run for a couple more hundred years and then cleared. After which all of humanity born after 1983 would be loaded for the same period of time.
This series is so complicated, having read *all* books in the series is a must. Seems to me that whoever wrote the storyline has not done so. (unsigned)
I haven't read the books, but I have a problem with a bit of it as the plot is currently explained in the article as it currently stands. It says the Ethicals originally brought Wathan technology to Earthm installing a generator and a collector. "The reason for this change of policy was that humans were, to them, extraordinary." - How could they know in advance that humans would be extraordinary ? Did they experience this or travel back in time? Or what? If all places got both a generator and a collector then it doesn't warrant the phrase "this change of policy"? Someone who has read it please clarify :) -- IceHunter ( talk) 02:53, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
What is a Masters memoir? Should that not simply read "Masters thesis"? Willsied8 ( talk) 01:10, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
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"[F]or fans of Farmer’s books, I recommend John Kendrick Bangs’ 1895 novel, A House-Boat On The Styx, to which Farmer owes a great deal."
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I don't recall anything from the stories suggesting that Riverworld was any more massive that Earth, which is the definition of "super-earth". according to the popup. Riverwold could be classified as "extrasolar", but not as a "super-earth".
From the "Overview": " From source to mouth, the river is 20 million miles long (Books I, II, & III state the river is 10 million miles long)."
If the books in the series state that the river is 10 million miles long, then it would seem that it is 10 million miles long. What is that basis for claiming that it is "20 million" miles long? Seems like a citation is needed here. (unsigned)
I tried making a map of the Riverworld years ago. The only way I could have it work out is have the river flow back and forth South in one hemisphere (call it the Down Hemisphere) and North in the other (call it the Up Hemisphere). This situation raises other complications, however- Farmer implies in one early book that the river flows in a spiral across the surface of the planet. CFLeon ( talk) 22:03, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
In the section on Peter Jairus Frigate, the opening sentence originally read:
Peter Jairus Frigate is a fictionalized version of the science fiction author Philip José Farmer, which appeared in his Riverworld series of novels.
Since "the science fiction author" and everything after Farmer's name sees to be unnecessary to me, I removed those parts of the sentence so it would read:
Peter Jairus Frigate is a fictionalized version of Philip José Farmer.
Please let me know if this was a wrong edit.-- Thylacine24 ( talk) 01:34, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
The "Riverworld" category page is itself a subcategory of Category:Bangsian fantasy, so I removed it from the categories here. I did this amid uncertainty about using two categories where one is a subcategory of the other, and had conflicting answers to questions about it in the Manual of Style and on the help desk, such as here and here.-- Thylacine24 ( talk) 23:11, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
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To Rmhermen: Why did you remove the role of the Church in the spread of Esperanto? -- Error 03:58, 12 Oct 2003 (UTC)
No IIRC the Church played a major role in the spread of the language. Considering the obcurity of Esperanto among the resruectees it seems a little absurd that it would just become dominant "naturally"
I strongly agree with the view that the Cotsc was very responsible for the spread of Esperanto and believe that La Viro was even told to spread it. 82.13.113.81 19:32, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
It says in the article that other writers used the Riverworld. Who are they, and what did they write? - Litefantastic 12:35, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
At first, Frigate certainly *seems* to be a thinly-veiled author cameo. However, without wanting to give too many spoilers, later in the series it becomes apparent that the Frigate we met in 'To Your Scattered Bodies Go' is definitely *not* just a renamed Philip Jose Farmer. Hence "bears a striking resemblance" rather than "is a thinly-veiled representation of".
Someone should start a petition or something to get Sci Fi channel to bring back Riverworld. I can't believe they stopped it after the first episode.-- Ewok Slayer 05:34, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
This following section is just plain wrong.
"There are no people from a time later than the early 21st century, ostensibly because an accident in space wiped out the human race at that time."
There are no humans on this verion of the Riverworld that lived after 1983. Anyone claiming to be from beyond this period is an agent for the ethicals. The story about the 'accident' which wipes out humanity is just that, a story. Later on in the series they explain that this verion of the Riverworld is meant to run for a couple more hundred years and then cleared. After which all of humanity born after 1983 would be loaded for the same period of time.
This series is so complicated, having read *all* books in the series is a must. Seems to me that whoever wrote the storyline has not done so. (unsigned)
I haven't read the books, but I have a problem with a bit of it as the plot is currently explained in the article as it currently stands. It says the Ethicals originally brought Wathan technology to Earthm installing a generator and a collector. "The reason for this change of policy was that humans were, to them, extraordinary." - How could they know in advance that humans would be extraordinary ? Did they experience this or travel back in time? Or what? If all places got both a generator and a collector then it doesn't warrant the phrase "this change of policy"? Someone who has read it please clarify :) -- IceHunter ( talk) 02:53, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
What is a Masters memoir? Should that not simply read "Masters thesis"? Willsied8 ( talk) 01:10, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
From
https://kinja.com/Aiwaz418
"[F]or fans of Farmer’s books, I recommend John Kendrick Bangs’ 1895 novel, A House-Boat On The Styx, to which Farmer owes a great deal."
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I don't recall anything from the stories suggesting that Riverworld was any more massive that Earth, which is the definition of "super-earth". according to the popup. Riverwold could be classified as "extrasolar", but not as a "super-earth".
From the "Overview": " From source to mouth, the river is 20 million miles long (Books I, II, & III state the river is 10 million miles long)."
If the books in the series state that the river is 10 million miles long, then it would seem that it is 10 million miles long. What is that basis for claiming that it is "20 million" miles long? Seems like a citation is needed here. (unsigned)
I tried making a map of the Riverworld years ago. The only way I could have it work out is have the river flow back and forth South in one hemisphere (call it the Down Hemisphere) and North in the other (call it the Up Hemisphere). This situation raises other complications, however- Farmer implies in one early book that the river flows in a spiral across the surface of the planet. CFLeon ( talk) 22:03, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
In the section on Peter Jairus Frigate, the opening sentence originally read:
Peter Jairus Frigate is a fictionalized version of the science fiction author Philip José Farmer, which appeared in his Riverworld series of novels.
Since "the science fiction author" and everything after Farmer's name sees to be unnecessary to me, I removed those parts of the sentence so it would read:
Peter Jairus Frigate is a fictionalized version of Philip José Farmer.
Please let me know if this was a wrong edit.-- Thylacine24 ( talk) 01:34, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
The "Riverworld" category page is itself a subcategory of Category:Bangsian fantasy, so I removed it from the categories here. I did this amid uncertainty about using two categories where one is a subcategory of the other, and had conflicting answers to questions about it in the Manual of Style and on the help desk, such as here and here.-- Thylacine24 ( talk) 23:11, 29 March 2021 (UTC)