From: utzoo!decvax!wivax!linus!genrad!grkermit!earle
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Title: Re: John Varley - (nf)
Article-I.D.: grkermit.347
Posted: Mon May  2 11:54:34 1983
Received: Tue May  3 05:33:54 1983
References: uiucdcs.1999

Another collection of John Varley's excellent short stories is "The
Barbie Murders", about a cult who submerge individual identity through
rigid conforrmism, including plastic surgery to make them all look alike -
but murders are occurring, and of course nobody can identify the victims, or
the murderer...  "The Persistence of Vision" collection, especially the
title story, is my favorite, though.

His longer works include "Titan" and "Wizard", about humans in contact with
a living space habitat (They're more interesting than this makes them sound.)
These two volumes cry out for a third - does anybody know if/when it will
be released?

John Varley is an outstanding sf author of the type where "s" is for science -
but his characters are fully developed, powerful and believable, and even
his science gets advanced enough to look like magic to me.  ("The Ophiuchi (sp?)
Hotline", another novel, is a good example, as well as being good reading)

Earle T. Fettig
GenRad Concord, MA