To Your Scattered Bodies Go

Style and Technique

Philip José Farmer in «To Your Scattered Bodies Go» employs a science fiction style that combines elements of adventure novels and philosophical parables. The language of the work is rich with detailed descriptions and dialogues that help reveal the characters and their internal conflicts. Literary techniques include the use of flashbacks to uncover the backstories of the characters and allusions to historical and mythological events. The narrative structure is nonlinear, with multiple parallel storylines that gradually intertwine, creating a complex and multilayered picture of a world where resurrected people from different eras are forced to interact and seek the meaning of their new existence.