title: The Dark Design (Riverworld Saga, Book 3)
author:  Philip Jose Farmer 
description: <i>The Dark Design</i> is the third 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. But why have humans been given another chance at life, and who is behind it all? That's what Sir Richard Francis Burton and 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) and the other steaming on the greatest riverboat ever seen. Now Milton Firebrass, Clemens's former enemy and now his No. 1 lieutenant, is planning to use the dwindling iron supply on the Riverworld to create a great airship, which can fly to the North 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.
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  This is a work of fiction. All events described are imaginary; all characters
  are entirely fictitious and are not intended to represent actual living
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  Copyright © 2020 by Nick Sullivan
  
  
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  Published by Wild Yonder Press
  
  
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