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TopicWhat show or movie has your favorite version of heaven?
ParanoidObsessive
08/29/20 3:09:12 AM
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LinkPizza posted...
Can you go to other places on the river?

Sort of.

You can walk - but it's a 10 million mile long river, with about 30 billion people along its shores. So if you're planning to walk to find a specific person, you're probably fucked. But if you just want to leave the group you're in to go join a different group, you theoretically could.

Part of the setting keeps there from being any significant technology (there's no metals and very little wood), so culture is mostly forced into tribal hunter-gatherer levels, so no one's going to build any cars or boats or planes that would make travel faster. Though Mark Twain, being Mark Twain, immediately sets out to find a way to break the rules and build a riverboat, because he's Mark Twain.

If you're actually interested, they're pretty famous novels with a lot of technical details as to how all this crap works:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverworld
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