false <![CDATA[The Dark Design (Riverworld 3)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174226379m/370899.jpg 370899 17 <I>The Dark Design</I> is the 3rd book in the epic Riverworld saga, in which almost all of humanity has been resurrected on a strange planet along the shores of a river 22 million miles long. Why have humans been given another chance at life, and who is behind it all? That's what Sir Richard Francis Burton & Sam Clemens set out to discover in two earlier novels, one by riding the "suicide express" (if you die on Riverworld, you're resurrected again at a random point along the river) & the other steaming on the greatest riverboat ever seen. Now Milton Firebrass, Clemens's former enemy & now his #1 lieutenant, is planning to use the dwindling iron supply on the Riverworld to create a great airship, which can fly to the N. Polar Sea far more quickly than any boat can travel. There he hopes to learn the secret of the mysterious tower thought to house the beings who created this planet. Jill Gulbirra does not care as much about the mission as she wants the chance to captain the great airship, which in all likelihood will be the last airship ever constructed by humanity. But in landing the coveted role, she faces stiff competition--especially from the greatest swordsman of all time, Cyrano de Bergerac, who turns out to be a natural pilot. But even if Jill can win the command of the airship & even if the ship can reach the river's headwaters, there's no guarantee it can get thru the mountain wall that surrounds the tower. It's likely that one or more agents of the Ethicals--Riverworld's creators--are on board the airship, plotting its downfall. Worse still, somewhere along the way the airship is sure to encounter the <I>Rex Grandissimus</I>, the steamboat stolen by Sam's archnemesis, King John Lackland.--Craig E. Engler (edited) 2916594 book 1977 The Dark Design (Riverworld Saga, Book 3) total:506|5:7|4:5|3:8|2:1|1:0| 506 1819 678 13 2 3 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1982 Sat Dec 20 12:27:44 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 27 05:49:17 -0700 2009 (To the tune of Monty Python's "I like traffic lights". See for example this YouTube version)

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