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John Varley (1947 - )
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John Varley has long been one of my very favorite writers of science fiction. My first encounter with him was the Gaea trilogy (Titan, Demon, and Wizard), which I have read several times since the eighties. I can recommend any of his novels or short stories. Aside from the trilogy, I strongly recommend The Persistence of Vision.
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(From Wikipedia) Varley grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, moved to Port Arthur in 1957, and graduated from Nederland High School. He went to Michigan State University on a National Merit Scholarship, because of the schools that he could afford, it was the farthest from Texas. He started as a physics major, switched to English, then left school before his 20th birthday and arrived in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury just in time for the "Summer of Love" in 1967. There he worked at various unskilled jobs, depended on St. Anthony's Mission for meals, and panhandled outside the Cala (now Lucky) Market on Stanyan Street before deciding that writing had to be a better way to make a living. He was serendipitously present at Woodstock in 1969 when his car ran out of gas a half-mile away. He also has lived at various times in Portland and Eugene, Oregon, New York, San Francisco again, Berkeley, and Los Angeles. For more info: http://www.varley.net/
Other Novels include:
Rolling Thunder (2008)
Short story collections
The Persistence of Vision (1978)
The Barbie Murders (1980) (republished as Picnic on Nearside, 1984)
Blue Champagne (1986)
Overdrawn At The Memory Bank (Short Story) (1976)
The John Varley Reader: Thirty Years of Short Fiction (2004)
Other
Millennium - screenplay (1989) based on the short story "Air Raid" (as was the novel Millennium)
Awards
Varley has won the Hugo Award three times:
1979 - Novella – "The Persistence of Vision"
1982 - Short Story – "The Pusher"
1985 - Novella – "Press Enter■"
and has been nominated a further twelve times.
He has won the Nebula Award twice:
1979 - Novella – "The Persistence of Vision"
1985 - Novella - "Press Enter■"
and has been nominated a further six times.
He has won the Locus Award ten times:
1976 - Special Locus Award – four novelettes in Top 10 ("Bagatelle", "Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance", "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank", "The Phantom of Kansas")
1979 - Novella – "The Persistence of Vision"
1979 - Novelette – "The Barbie Murders"
1979 - Single Author Collection – The Persistence of Vision
1980 - SF Novel – Titan
1981 - Single Author Collection – The Barbie Murders
1982 - Novella – "Blue Champagne"
1982 - Short Story – "The Pusher"
1985 - Novella - "Press Enter■"
1987 - Collection – Blue Champagne
Varley has also won the Jupiter Award, the Prix Apollo, several Seiun Awards, Endeavour Award and others.
judygreeneyes April 4th, 2008 03:37 PM PST