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John Herbert Varley (innate 1947) is a science fiction author. He has written numbers of novels & many short stories, many of the two within the future history (a Eight Worlds) in which years prior to the race of mysterious & almighty aliens kicked human being off the Globe, however human being stand inhabited virtually each more corner of the solar patterns, typically through the apply of uncivilized biological modifications part learned from either eavesdropping in alien communications. His elaborated speculations en route human being can utilise advances within biological science were revelatory in the Seventies whilst his story collection A Persistence of Vision was freed. A title story in this collection won a Hugo and Nebula awards, and it has been suggested that "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank" will own inspired occasionally portions of the motion picture Total Recall (although a primary inspiration was clearly the credited source, the Philip K. Dick story "We Can Remember it for you Wholesale"). Varley spent a few years within Hollywood however a exclusively real symptom of this stint was a film Millennium. Of his Millennium personal experience Varley said: Varley is typically in comparison Robert Heinlein. Additionally to the likewise descriptive genre, similarities include loose societies & free love. 2 of his attached novels, Steel Beach and The Golden Globe, posit a sub-society of Heinleiners. The Golden Globe also contains the society evolved from either a prisin colony on Pluto and a second society evolved from either it in Pluto's moon, Charon--a situation virtually all notably discovered within Heinlein's The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress. Unlike Heinlein's lunar society, Varley's convict society occurs as cross between a mafia & a yakuza, sole supplementary therefore. This may be construed as a critique of Heinlein's novel & a ideas in it. Varley is noteworthy for the frequent prominence of female characters, unusual within science fiction, & especially and then among male authors of hard science fiction. This prominence is seeable non merely withinside his Eight Worlds history in which sex changes come routine, however in his more works too. A idea of routine sex changes is as well an case of the sexual themes that color his works without dominating the babies.
John Varley has too written the trilogy of novels placed inside the hollow globe remindful around structure to the super big Stanford torus space habitat, but using the distinctly different personality. It is:
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He has won a Nebula Award twice:
He has won a Locus Award ten times:
Varley has too won a Jupiter Award, a Prix Apollo, many Seiun Awards and others.
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John Varley - The Site Site dedicated to the author. Includes a bibliography, a biography, some photographs and artwork associated with the author's writing, a timeline for the Eight Worlds series, and three interviews. The Eight Worlds of John Varley Extensive article on the author's Eight Worlds Universe. The Golden Globe An Infinity Plus review of a 1998 novel by the author, part of the "Eight Worlds" sequence. John Varley John Varley's official Website. Has some stories, latest news, biography and bibliography. The Golden Globe Review of The Golden Globe by John Varley. |
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