John Varley, Author . Ace $23.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-441-01015-8
And the heart-pounding space race is on! When a Chinese spacecraft, Heavenly Harmony, threatens to land on Mars a few days before the U.S. shuttle vehicle Ares Seven, washed-up ex-astronaut Travis Broussard, his brilliant but unconventional cousin,...
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John Varley, Author . Ace $23.95 (364p) ISBN 978-0-441-01281-7
When eccentric megabillionaire Howard Christian commissions a hunt for a frozen mammoth in northern Manitoba to clone a new model in Varley's rollicking, bittersweet tale of time travel and ecology, he gets more than he bargained for: next to...
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John Varley, Author . Ace $23.95 (330p) ISBN 978-0-441-01364-7
Ray Garcia-Strickland is just another Martian teenager. Sure, his parents are two of the ultra-famous original Mars colonists (as detailed in Varley's rollicking Red Thunder
), but who cares when he's got school, girls and airboard tricks to
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John Varley, Author . Ace $24.95 (344p) ISBN 978-0-441-01563-4
Nebula and Hugo–winner Varley continues the space opera saga of the Garcia-Strickland clan (last encountered in 2006's Red Lightning
) in this enjoyable if simplistic tale. Patricia Kelly Elizabeth Podkayne Strickland-Garcia-Redmond, daughter of...
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John Varley, Author Dark Harvest $0 (400p) ISBN 978-0-913165-09-6
Although the promise of Varley's early work has petered out, he retains a remarkable storyteller's voice that supersedes his lack of good stories to tell. The reader is thus drawn into these tales examining the way technology complicates human...
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John Varley, Author Putnam Publishing Group $22.95 (479p) ISBN 978-0-399-13759-4
After nearly a decade's silence, Nebula and Hugo Award winner Varley ( The Ophiuchi Hotline ; Titan ; Millennium ; etc.) makes a triumphant return with this absorbing novel, set in a future where humanity, expelled from the Earth by the alien...
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John Varley. Ace, $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-441-01757-7
The title of this molasses-paced story of global devastation is unfortunately apropos. Dave Marshall has advance notice of the rapid and unstoppable destruction of the world’s oil reserves—originally the plot of Marshall’s next movie script, but now
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John Varley. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $45 (344p) ISBN 978-1-59606-528-4
Eleven long-unavailable science fiction stories showcase Varley’s signature themes of freedom and free love in this literary tour of the odder byways of the solar system. Varley (Slow Apocalypse) loves exotic settings: talking black holes in “Lollipo
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John Varley. Ace, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-425-27407-1
On Rolling Thunder, a starship the size of a small mountain, twins Cassie and Polly live the mundane lives of utterly stereotypical teen girls from the 1950s: they’re athletic, cute, bright, and obsessed with romance, and they refrain from...
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John Varley, Author, Patricia A. McKillip, Author Ace Books $22.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-441-00558-1
Sparky Valentine grew up on stage. He'd memorized all of Shakespeare by age six and was the star of a hit TV show at eight. His father, actor John Barrymore Valentine, was famous throughout the solar system. But John was also an abusive monster who...
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John Varley. Ace, $16 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-101-98937-1
It’s been 20 years since the publication of Varley’s The Golden Globe, but this haphazard sequel, the fourth novel in the Eight Worlds far-future setting, still relies heavily on readers’ familiarity with the earlier works. Former cop Chris Bach has
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