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From: brendan%gigi.DEC@decwrl.ARPA
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Subject: Riverworld (* SPOILER *)
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Date: Mon, 13-May-85 11:16:12 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 13 11:16:12 1985
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From: brendan%gigi.DEC@decwrl.ARPA  (From the terminal of Brendan E. Boelke)

			*** SPOILER WARNING ***

	I have just finished the Riverworld series (better late than 
never), and have a VERY large question about the ending.  Once Burton,
X, Alice, Frigate, et. al. save the life of the computer and convince
it to start doing resurrections again, et. al. and Farmer seem to have
forgotten one thing - half (?) the Grailstones along the River DON'T WORK!

	Now, I suppose you could say that they'll get around to fixing
them (ah, but who is they?), but in the meantime the 17 Billion or so people
who are still alive are going to figure out what's going on and probably
start killing the resurecties (?) before they can even wake up.

	Does anyone know if Farmer takes care of this anywhere?  If so, 
where?  Is Riverworld and Other Stories worth reading?  Arghh!!  I'm not 
usualy a detail picker, but that one was just too obvious/ridiculous.

Brendan E. Boelke

p.s. If I missed anything that explains this (I finished the book at 2 
     a.m) my humble apologies - but I don't think I did.