John Varley, forgotten author?

Somebody was commenting on Goodreads about how my Top 20 sf shelf is missing John Varley books (among other allegedly missing books). This reminds me that I did read Varley's Gaea books and Millennium decades ago. I can't remember much about them, but I do remember really liking them.

Any John Varley fans?

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On the occasion of John Varley's quadruple bypass pluralistic.net/2021/03/2…
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β€˜Titan’ by John Varley. Cover art by Ron Walotsky, 1979.
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β€œMillennium” by John Varley
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She is half his age and falls in love with him. [Press Enter by John Varley]
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The John Varley Reader will be part of the Audible Plus catalog when it is released later this year.

It will be 25 hours long. Seems like a great value considering most Plus titles are less than 12-13 hours. Link

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The John Varley Reader: Thirty Years of Short Fiction, $1.99 for Kindle amzn.com/B08CZM2MFZ
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The John Varley Reader will be part of the Audible Plus catalog when it is released later this year. /r/printSF/comments/qbku9…
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John Varley’s Titan trilogy

Old guy here~~> revisiting the SF of my youth & finally found hard copies of Titan, Wizard, & Demon. I had found a handful of voices online rejecting out of hand a couple old Boomers lamenting Varley’s current obscurity after being highly thought of β€œback in the day”.

The general consensus was that his writing just doesn’t hold up.

I’m about 80 pps in to the first book, & I just don’t buy that as a justification for the fading of appreciation.

So three questions:

the general, generational disconnect between potential audiences of today discovering SF authors of the 20thC~~> how much is this driven by the rise to prominence of audiobooks vs text? How much by the overwhelming of science-y fiction by horror & fantasy genres? How much by the shift of filmed SF from B Movie to mainstream, so that if an author’s work hasn’t been filmed, reading audiences never discover them?

Would also benefit from any opinions about Varley, & if anyone knows if he had any interest from Hollywood. I remember Harlan Ellison was once asked, maybe in the 90’s, which writers Hollywood had most missed the boat on & Varley was at the top of a very short list.

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[Canada][Amazon Kindle] The John Varley Reader: Thirty Years of Short Fiction by John Varley is on sale for $1.99 (8th August). Also on sale on amazon.com. amazon.ca/John-Varley-Rea…
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Sandworms in John Varley's Gaean trilogy

So far I have only read the first book in the trilogy; Titan. And there is actually a sandworm in the novel, and possibly the sequels too.

Spoiler for those who intend to read the book:

It's not just a giant worm that happens to have similarities with Frank Herbert's worms, it is a direct copy of it. The gigantic structure in space is controlled by an alien intelligence, and in an attempt to learn more about and prepare for human contact, it picks up radio and TV-transmissions from earth, including pop culture. One of these things are Frank Herbert's Dune, and so it decides to replicate it and create a sandworm on its own. But at least in the first novel, it's not really an encounter, just a sight and a reference. Still, just found it interesting.

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Somebody Read "Millenium" by John Varley

Book was interesting, movie was terrible, but the key elements is the same. You cannot harm a timeline if you do actions before everyone dies anyway. I wonder if any of the writers have mentioned the source of this tactic.

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Looking for some fun time travel/time paradox novels. I just read Millenium by John Varley and loved it. Maybe something in the same vein, but a bit more current. Thanks!
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β€˜Millennium’ by John Varley, 1983. Cover art by Paul Lehr, 1985 Berkley edition.
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β€˜Blue Champagne’ by John Varley, 1986. Cover art by Todd Cameron Hamilton.
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β€˜Picnic on Nearside’ by John Varley, 1980 (originally published as β€˜The Barbie Murders’). Cover art by Barclay Shaw, 1984.
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The Ophiuchi Hotline by John Varley... what a great surprise!

What a great find! I hadn't seen much talk about this book on Reddit so I wasn’t expecting much from it, but I was blown away. It was a quick read, fun, endlessly creative, with a bit of a mind-boggling ending. Without spoiling too much, the book has a wonderfully creative story-telling structure related to clones that I wasn't expecting but I found really engaging.

I was also really impressed with Varley’s writing and how well this book has aged since 1977. So far in my experience 70s sci-fi books by white guys typically have awful female characters, if any, with annoyingly limited imaginations when it comes to future social aspects of humanity (I've heard referred to as "galactic suburbia"). Varley was refreshingly modern in those aspects, with great characters of all genders and a believable future society where gender and sexuality is quite fluid. None of that was really the focus of the book though, it was just great world building.

Highly recommend this book to you all. I will definitely be checking out more of his novels, probably Titan next.

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Sexualizing a thirteen year old girl [The Persistence of Vision by John Varley]
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[Varley] 'When the @steelers are playing the Bengals in the divisional playoffs, and we have the Bengals down 21-7, that is not the time to let up. That is the time to keep blitzing on every play.'– @UPMC's Dr. John Williams on the importance of not letting up on social distancing πŸ‘ twitter.com/teresa_varley…
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β€˜The Persistence of Vision’ by John Varley, 1978. Cover art by Jim Burns, 1979 ed.
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"Air Raid" by John Varley [scifi] (5591 words) In a future where disease and genetic damage has ravaged the population, a team of commandos travels back in time to abduct healthy people and bring them to the future to rebuild civilization. baen.com/Chapters/9781625…
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The Opiuchi Hotline by John Varley, 1977. Cover by Mark Bright.
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Millennium by John Varley (novel 1983). en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M…
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At his sentencing, Judge Ronald Varley called John Asquith (pictured) a β€œvile human, who will pay for his crimes against humanity in the strongest way possible”. He will be electrocuted a week on Thursday.
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From John Varleys Gaean trilogy
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Barclays former CEO John Varley and three top bankers to appear in court over fraud charges independent.co.uk/news/bu…
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Ronin #1 (July 1983) written by Frank Miller, colored by Lynn Varley, lettered by John Costanza Β© 2008 DC Comics.
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John Varley

So I just read Varley's The Golden Globe, and I was pretty much floored. Can anyone tell me what to read next from him?

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"Titan" by John Varley (SF, Locus Award, $2.99) kobo.com/us/en/ebook/tita…
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Since it hasn't apparently been reported in this sub: Irontown Blues has a publishing date (08/2018) (Long awaited John Varley Novel finishing off the Steel Beach and Golden Globe trilogy) varley.net/nonfiction/new…
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Haven't seen John Varley's "Titan" brought up in discussion here. Thought I would throw it out there. (fixed mispeling)

Titan was nominated for Hugo & Nebula awards in the late 70's, and has a strong (for it's interpretation at the time) female lead. I read it when it came out, and what I liked about it was Varley's attempt to introduce a variety of different nonhuman psychologies. I found his world to be engaging and his creations within to be foriegn, which i liked. Anywho, i did a seach and didn't find anything in this reddit referring to Varley's Titan and thought I would drop a recommendation here. If you're into alien new world discovery with some self discovery tossed in, I would recommend it. It is a series, but the first book stands on it's own very well.

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Inside cover art from John Varley's novel Wizard. This is inside a space habitat and that is a living Blimp and ramjet.
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The short story Air Raid was written by John Varley in 1977. He expanded it to the novel Millennium in 1984. He then wrote the screenplay for the film version which came out in 1989. Are there any other examples of writers being in that much control of every major version of their work?

If you have not read them, I highly recommend both Air Raid and the novel Millennium. Air Raid is a tight story that, as Varley put it when it was optioned for a motion picture, would have made a good episode of The Twilight Zone.

The novel expands on the story, developing the future crap sack earth of several thousand humans slowly going extinct in the ruins of several civilizations, and alternating with the air crash investigation in the present.

The movie falls short of kinda OK.

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[Business] - Former Barclays chief John Varley cleared of fraud charges bbc.co.uk/news/business-4…
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UK prosecutor seeks to restore criminal case against Barclays - The agency had been praised as β€œfearless” for taking on one of the world’s largest banks when it first charged Barclays and four former senior executives - including one-time CEO John Varley - with criminal offences in June 2017. reuters.com/article/us-ba…
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Anyone ever done a campaign based on the Gaea trilogy by John Varley?

I'm thinking of making a campaign based in Gaea but I've never made a campaign before so I'd love some suggestions if anyone has done it before.

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Relevant to "Pria", here's John Varley's 1977 short story "Air Raid" (well worth the 20-minute read) baen.com/Chapters/9781625…
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Is John Varley's Steel Beach worth reading ?! prog464.com/article.aspx?…
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[City AM] SFO charges four former Barclays bankers including ex-CEO John Varley cityam.com/266979/barclay…
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