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The Barbie Murders is a 1980 collection of science fiction stories by American writer John Varley. The book was republished under the title Picnic on Nearside in 1984. [ 1 ]
The Gaea Trilogy consists of three science fiction novels by John Varley. The stories tell of humanity's encounter with a living being in the shape of a 1,300 km diameter Stanford torus, inhabited by many different species, most notably the centaur-like Titanides, in orbit around the planet Saturn. The novels are: Titan (1979)
Wizard takes place in 2100, seventy-five years after the events in Titan.Cirocco has become an alcoholic, apparently due to the strain of being the Wizard.Gaby Plauget has taken up the slack, carrying out special projects for Gaea such as building the Circum-Gaea Highway, in return for which she gets some of the benefits Cirocco enjoys, including apparently perpetual youth.
First edition (publ. Ace Books) Cover artist: Matt Stawicki. Mammoth is a 2005 novel by author John Varley. The book centers around the concept of time travel, and discusses the concept that there may be limits to science.
Varley has written three sequels, Red Lightning (2006), Rolling Thunder (2008) and Dark Lightning (2014). The events of the books in the series are set approximately twenty years apart. In an interview on the Republibot website in 2009 he mentioned that "Dark Lightning" would be the final book in the series.
The John Varley Reader is a representative collection of 18 of the science fiction short stories by John Varley, first published in paperback in September 2004. It features 5 new stories. Each story is preceded by an autobiographical introduction; until this book Varley had avoided discussing himself, or his works, in print.