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3 unusual facts about Riverworld


Cameron Daddo

In 2000, he also starred in Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story as Jack Garrison, an American writer who had an important role during World War I. Daddo appeared as Samuel Clemens in the 2003 television pilot Riverworld based on the popular novels.

Mrs Grundy

Philip José Farmer's characters in the Riverworld series also refer to Mrs Grundy as prudishness incarnate in a negative way.

Quiet Night In

Richard Lambeth had previously made appearances in the cult TV series Atlantis High and Being Eve, Lucy Gay, Brian McKay and Christopher Banks starred in the gay film festival film All About Reinalda, and Brian Moore appeared as Monat in the TV adaptation of the Riverworld novels.


Philip José Farmer

The Riverworld series follows the adventures of such diverse characters as Richard Francis Burton, Hermann Göring, and Samuel Clemens through a bizarre afterlife in which every human ever to have lived is simultaneously resurrected along a single river valley that stretches over an entire planet.

The Fabulous Riverboat

Twenty years after humanity was resurrected on Riverworld, Sam Clemens is traveling with the crew of a Viking longboat, captained by Eric Bloodaxe, who is notable for having an axe of metal on the metal-poor Riverworld, where this is a rarity, to find the source of this metal.


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