The Dark Design: Riverworld, Book 3

Best-selling author Philip JosE Farmer crafted an SF landmark with his wildly imaginative Riverworld series. In this third installment, much has transpired since Earth¿s denizens found themselves resurrected along the shores of a river 22 million miles long. With the truth of this strange river¿s creators, the Ethicals, still shrouded in mystery, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Samuel Clemens, King John, and Cyrano de Bergerac face a fantastical voyage of discovery.
¿Charts a territory somewhere between Gulliver¿s Travels and The Lord of the Rings.¿¿Time