To Your Scattered Bodies Go

To Your Scattered Bodies Go is a science fiction novel by the American writer Philip Jose Farmer, published in 1971 and the first book in the Riverworld series. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1972, and its title is taken from one of John Donne's Holy Sonnets.

The premise is that every human being who ever died has been resurrected along the banks of an enormous river on an unknown planet, supplied with food and the means to live but with no account of why. The book begins with Richard Francis Burton, the nineteenth-century explorer and translator, waking up along with everyone else.

Burton gathers companions as he tries to work out what has happened to them: a Neanderthal he calls Kazz, a science fiction writer named Peter Frigate, Alice Liddell, and an extraterrestrial named Monat who had come to Earth before the resurrection. The river runs for thousands of miles, the settlements along it are drawn from every period of human history, and the question of who built it, and for what, is the one the book sets out to ask.