john varley

Slow Apocalypse John Varley Ace, Sep 4 2012, $25.95 ISBN 9780441017577 Eddie Parker worked on bacteria that would clean up oil spills and from there he soon became part of the Prometheus Project to increase oil production via enhancing pressure. However, Eddie conceals his secret agenda to...

I found this the best book of Varley’s Gaea trilogy, not because it is a better story – they are all pretty good stories – not because the characters are better developed – he always does a pretty good job at developing his characters, but because he reined in his tendency to speculate – very...

3/5 stars Titan by John Varley Despite only giving it 3 stars this is really a very goodstory; well paced, interesting idea(s), sympathetic main characters and nicely finished off. What let it down for me was poor research, some incorrect (or at least very poorly expressed) science and, most...

Here's an interesting review of John Varley by Russell Letson, specifically talking about the new collection, Goodbye, Robinson Crusoe. I was struck by the comment Letson makes about how "etween this volume and the [b]Reader, the bulk of Varley’s short fiction is now available". I did some...

This 1979 book was the first of the Gaean trilogy, the others being Wizard and Demon. I have named the trilogy as among my top 20 favourite SFF stories (they feature the same central character in the same location throughout, so really make one more or less continuous tale) but it's been decades...

John Varley was one of my favourite authors in the 1980s, and his Gaean trilogy (Titan, Wizard and Demon) is still among my twenty favourite SFF works. Somehow I've managed to miss reading anything by him since then, so I opened Mammoth with anticipation. The time is the near future, and an...

I recently picked up a collection of short stories by Varley called "The persistance of Vision" to get a taste of his work before committing to any of his novels. Ive only read one short so far ("Retrograde Summer", which was strange) and switched to "Rendezvous with Rama" by Clarke... Anyway...