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From: wildbill@ucbvax.ARPA (William J. Laubenheimer)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: American Playhouse (PBS); also, John Varley
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Date: Sat, 2-Feb-85 03:15:09 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  2 03:15:09 1985
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Reply-To: wildbill@ucbvax.UUCP (William J. Laubenheimer)
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
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Summary: 

Re "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank" -- is this based on the John Varley
story of the same name? If so, it will be interesting to see what they
make of it. (On your specific message: I don't get 54. Do you know if
9 or 32 will be showing it?)

Varley is fast becoming one of my favorite SF authors. At first, although
I would occasionally stumble across one of his shorter works and say to
myself, "hmmm, that's nice...", I somehow never got motivated enough to
go out and track down more stuff. Then, there came a time when I didn't
have anything really pressing, but there was this copy of \\Titan//
lying around. By the time I finished it, symptoms of addiction were
beginning to manifest themselves; by now, I believe I'm hooked for good.

I recently got a copy of \\Demon//. In my opinion, this series has
maintained its high quality throughout, and \\Demon// may even be the
best of the lot. I have seen very little discussion of either \\Demon//
or Varley in sf-lovers - is anybody else out there reading him? I am
somewhat surprised that his name didn't crop up in the "good female
characters" discussion which took place recently (or maybe it did -
I missed a fair chunk of that one); many of his important characters
are female.

It seems to me that there must be a sequel in store here. Although
there is not an overwhelming tangle of loose ends that would demand
another book to tie everything up (the Riverworld phenomenon), there
is too much going on in this universe for me to be content with things
as they are at the end of \\Demon//. The principal characters are by
no means played out, either. Does anybody else concur with this opinion?

                                        Bill Laubenheimer
----------------------------------------UC-Berkeley Computer Science
     ...Killjoy went that-a-way--->     ucbvax!wildbill