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	John Varley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Herbert Varley (born August 9, 1947 in Austin, Texas) is a science fiction author.
		Varley is noteworthy for the frequent prominence of female characters, unusual in science fiction, and especially so among male authors of hard science fiction.
		John Varley has also written a trilogy of novels set in a hollow world reminiscent in structure to a very large Stanford torus space habitat, but with a distinctly different personality.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Varley (768 words)

	JOHN VARLEY - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN VARLEY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		But on his parent's death Varley escaped from this uncongenial employment, and, after working with a portrait painter, engaged himself at the age of sixteen to an architectural draughtsman, who took him on a provincial tour to sketch the principal buildings in the towns they visited.
		He had married in the previous year; and, in order to provide for the wants of an increasing family, he was obliged to produce for the dealers much work of a slight and commonplace character.
		Varley's landscapes are graceful and solemn in feeling, and simple and broad in treatment, being worked with a full brush and pure fresh transparent tints, usually without any admixture of body-color.
	81.1911encyclopedia.org /V/VA/VARLEY_JOHN.htm (1090 words)

	handprint : late georgian watercolors
		Varley brings the scene to life with an especially deft handling of skewed facades along the street, using the low angle of view and precise linear perspective he learned from the etchings in A Picturesque Tour through the Cities of London and Westminster, published in the 1790's by the topographer Thomas Malton Jr.
		Varley was a remarkable personality — widely known for his enormous build and unrestrained enthusiasm for astrology and spiritualism, and also for his feverish industry before major watercolor exhibitions.
		There is a troubled, Dickensian quality to Varley's later life — he was in and out of prison for debt, overwhelmed by teaching commitments, burdened by eight children and a first wife who despised him (she died in 1824), and to cap it all his studio burned down in 1825.
	www.handprint.com /HP/WCL/artist07.html (2539 words)

	John Varley (painter) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Varley (1778–1842) was an English watercolour painter and astrologer, and a close friend of William Blake, the poet/painter/mystic.
		They collaborated in 1819–1820 on the book Visionary Heads, written by Varley and illustrated by Blake.
		He was the elder brother of Cornelius Varley.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Varley_(painter) (99 words)

	Rambles: John Varley, The John Varley Reader: 30 Years of Short Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		John Varley's stories are, to a great extent, the reason I love to read.
		His SF idols were Heinlein and Niven, but Varley had attended Woodstock, had lived in the Haight, he was a child of the '60s, and these experiences took his fiction in startling new directions.
		Lately though, Varley stories have begun to turn up once again, and to mark both his return and the 30th anniversary of his entry into the science fiction field we have this collection, The John Varley Reader.
	www.rambles.net /varley_reader04.html (769 words)

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		"John Varley is a multiple winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for excellence in science fiction, and has also received France's Prix Apollo.
		"John Varley's vivid, colorful novels have won him a large and enthusiastic following, and his novella, The Persistence of Vision, won both the Hugo and Nebula awards.
		He is a young man with college training in physics and English, an ability to understand and extrapolate from current thinking in many scientific disciplines, a nice touch with the language, and a dwelling in Oregon where he lives with Anet Mconel and their three children.
	www.geocities.com /Area51/Rampart/3870/biography.html (491 words)

	John Varley: The Golden Globe - an infinity plus review
		Steel Beach (1992) was Varley's belated return to the "Eight Worlds" project; but instead of continuing along the urgent narrative trajectory suggested by The Ophiuchi Hotline, this new novel returned to an intermediate phase of the human diaspora, some time before events have reached their critical stage.
		Although Varley engages in speculative invention on a large scale, the focus of his cultures is entirely nostalgic.
		Varley's fundamental purpose seems to be to delineate the decadence that precedes a civilization's fall-or redemption.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/globe.htm (1043 words)

	Interview: John Varley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		John: That was more or less what I thought, but as a man of 50 I have to keep doing reality checks, because the definitions keep changing.
		John: The "royalty" I described in Steel Beach were more a bunch of enthusiasts, like the Society for Creative Anachronism, than representative of the culture at large.
		John: Twice I've had cases of college drama students who asked permission to adapt my stories for the stage, for student projects, not for profit, and I've granted it gladly...
	www.xeromag.com /varley.html (2699 words)

	AllRefer.com - John Varley (European Art, 1600 To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		John Varley, European Art, 1600 To The Present, Biographies
		John Varley 1778–1842, English painter in watercolor; one of the founders of the Old Water Colour Society.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on John Varley
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	Buy.com - The John Varley Reader : John Varley : ISBN 0441011950 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		John Herbert Varley began writing in 1974 with a series of short stories, many of which were collected in THE PERSISTENCE OF VISION (1978)--the title story won both the Hugo and Nebula awards--and THE BARBIE MURDERS (1980).
		Varley continued along this track in the Gaean series--TITAN (1979), WIZARD (1980), and DEMON (1984)--which was nominated for several awards.
		STEEL BEACH (1992), Varley's next novel, was also a part of the Eight Worlds series, and was heralded by many critics as a brilliant, though somewhat bleak, view of the future of humankind.
	www.buy.com /prod/The_John_Varley_Reader/q/loc/106/36395747.html (512 words)

	AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
		John Varley was born in Austin and raised on the Gulf Coast, where he learned to run behind DDT-spraying trucks during heavy mosquito raids.
		Varley was one of the first writers to be called “The New Heinlein.” This flattered and troubled him, since the Old Heinlein was a major role model—and not yet dead.
		John Varley recently lived in Portland, Oregon, above a pretty good Italian restaurant that burned down shortly after he left.
	scifi.com /scifiction/classics/classics_archive/varley/varley_bio.html (574 words)

	John Varley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Most of Varley's work is set in a future in which man has been driven from the earth by vastly superior aliens and is forced to live on various planets of the solar system.
		It tells of the struggle between a god-like and increasingly mad intelligence that controls or is a spaceship-world and a human who has come to live in it.
		As in all Varley's books, the characters of the people are closly examined, with particular attention to how they are different from us in their unusual environment.
	users.ox.ac.uk /~ousfg/mh-zool/john-varley.html (208 words)

	Amazon.com: The Ophiuchi Hotline (Sf Collector's): Books: John Varley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Before I've read three Varley short stories: The Exellent 'Press Enter' which was one of the finest novellas I've ever read, and a Hugo award winner, 'Air Raid' which was the basis for the movie 'Millenium', which was pretty good, and 'Goodbye, Robinson Crusoe' which was an unsuccesful 8 Worlds short story.
		In this novel, the presentation is just as important as the plot and Varley pulls out all the stops to depict his wild future history, of a human culture adapted to the stars, where sex changes and physical changes are completely ordinary.
		John Varley for many reasons is one of the best science fiction writers of his generation and The Ophiuchi Hotline is his first major work.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0575072830?v=glance (1954 words)

	Review: Blast Off with John Varley's Red Thunder, reviewed by Faith L. Justice
		He was too much of a cowboy for NASA, so after landing a crippled shuttlecraft in an African jungle, saving the crew and passengers, but killing a water buffalo, NASA gave him a medal and a retirement dinner.
		Varley leads us up and down an emotional rollercoaster as one problem after another is met and solved.
		Varley's characters don't take themselves (or the government or the news media or advertising and marketing practices) too seriously, but they make the best of their opportunities.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2003/20030929/red_thunder.shtml (986 words)

	Cloggie :: Esseff :: Millennial Reviews: X The Persistence of Vision - John Varley
		The social despair required for the story might be driven by Watergate, the economy and the slide of the boomers into self-indulgent decadence[1].
		It's a 1970s Varley short story so even if one disagrees with the real-world premises the story itself is pretty much guaranteed to be well written and worth reading.
		Varley excels at the short length and any of his collections are worth doing GBH to get hold of.
	www.cloggie.org /esseff/millennial-10.html (595 words)

	Amazon.com: Demon: Books: John Varley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		John Varley is clearly having a ball in this third story of the Gaia trilogy, following up "Titan" and "Wizard." Each slowly built in tempo, until in "Demon" it's almost wall-to-wall war with an alien entity INSIDE the same alien entity.
		Gaea's godhood has finally driven her completely insane, and she has decided that all the world should be a film of her devising, that she is the arch-villain, and that it can only end with a hero coming to kill her.
		Varley spares none of his imagination in constructing Cirocco's allies for this final conflict, either.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0399129456?v=glance (1749 words)

	Locus Online: John Varley interview excerpts
		John Varley was born in Austin, Texas, attended Michigan State University in East Lansing, and traveled the country for several years before becoming a full-time writer in 1973.
		Varley won the Hugo and Nebula awards for 1978 novella "The Persistence of Vision", and won both awards again for 1984 novella "PRESS ENTER []".
		Varley now lives on the California central coast.
	www.locusmag.com /2004/Issues/10Varley.html (874 words)

	Mammoth - John Varley - Penguin Group (USA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Never afraid of risks, award-winning author John Varley took readers and critics by storm with his previous novel, Red Thunder.
		Chronicle called it a "fun-filled adventure" and raved "Varley matches a serious literary style with an outrageous plot, and he's one of the few writers in the field who could make it work.
		"Varley's sparkling wit pulls one surprise after another out of this unconventional blend of science and social commentary....
	us.penguingroup.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0441012817,00.html (281 words)

	John Varley, Red Thunder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Red Thunder was intended to be a collaboration between John Varley and his longtime friend Spider Robinson.
		Back then, in the 1940s and '50s, under the watchful eye of John W. Campbell Jr., SF was full of scientist-adventurers who built rockets in their garages then flew off to battle bug-eyed monsters on Venus.
		Varley could have made this a really wonderful juvenile novel by taming down some of the raunchier sexual encounters.
	www.rambles.net /varley_redth03.html (984 words)

	Titan by John Varley, a science fiction book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		John Varley's monumental trilogy -- Titan, Wizard, and Demon...begins with humankind's exploration of a massive satellite orbiting Saturn.
		John Varley (1947-) is a US writer of science fiction short stories and novels.
		John Varley's short fiction has been collected in The Persistence of Vision (1978) titled in the UK In the Hall of the Martian Kings (1978); The Barbie Murders (1980) alternate title Picnic on Nearside (1984); Blue Champagne (1986); and The John Varley Reader: Thirty Years of Short Fiction (2004).
	members.aol.com /siure/varley2.htm (723 words)

	John VARLEY/Nancy GARLOW - NOTES
		D.) Varley the same age as Ona (actually, she was a little over 2 mos.
		C.W. Varley was the school board president for the Whitesboro school in 1930.
		Ann says Tim allowed John Varley to "adopt" Beatrice because her mother died when she was 2 years old.
	www.varley.org /notes.html (4589 words)

	Cpt. John VARLEY
		The couple had 8 children and when John's brother, Lt. William VARLEY decided to move to Texas, so did John and his family.
		Most of John's descendants have been scattered and lost.
		Lometa Stagg is working to build this branch of the VARLEY family.
	www.varley.org /photo03.htm (83 words)

	John Varley Online
		John Varley at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Looking under the Bridge
		John Varley at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. Tate Gallery, London, UK The Faringdon Collection at Buscot Park, Oxfordshire, UK View of Wilton House with the Palladian Bridge
		All images and text on this John Varley page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/varley_john.html (183 words)

	The John Varley Reader - John Varley - Penguin Group (USA)
		From the moment John Varley burst onto the scene in 1974, his short fiction was like nothing anyone else was writing.
		Now, The John Varley Reader gathers his best stories, many out of print for years.
		This is the volume no Varley fan-or science fiction reader-can do without.
	penguinputnam.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0441011950,00.html?sym=TAB (146 words)

	VARLEY, JOHN (1778-1842) - Online Information article about VARLEY, JOHN (1778-1842)
		VARLEY, JOHN (1778-1842) - Online Information article about VARLEY, JOHN (1778-1842)
		death Varley escaped from this uncongenial employment, and, after working with a portrait painter, engaged himself at the See also:
		Blake sketched his celebrated " Visionary Heads." Varley died at London on the 17th of See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /VAN_VIR/VARLEY_JOHN_1778_1842_.html (587 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Red Thunder
		John Varley grew up in Texas but now lives lives in Eugene, Oregon with his wife and family.
		In fact, if I'd been Varley's stern editor, I'd have ended the novel when Red Thunder lands on Mars, and summarized everything that happened later in the Epilogue.
		Better, perhaps, to ignore the famous name, and enjoy the tale for what it is, a fine, flawed, nostalgic remake of a childhood classic.
	www.sfsite.com /09b/re160.htm (641 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: The Golden Globe
		Despite a slow but steady output of stories, people were beginning to ask whatever happened to John Varley.
		First with Steel Beach (1992), which updated and refurbished the parameters of the Eight Worlds Sequence, in which some of his best stories and his first novel were set, and now with The Golden Globe, which is set a few years after the events of Steel Beach.
		Strongest is the sense of Varley having fun, playing off the corners of his densely imagined world, drawing the reader into a plot more tangled than it first seems, and tying up every loose end with consummate skill.
	www.sfsite.com /10b/gold43.htm (685 words)

	SS > SF > book reviews > John Varley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Varley has given us a rip-roaring Golden Age space travel story, updated for the new millennium.
		The spaceship in question is build by a bunch of youngsters -- but they spend a million dollars on it, and have proper project management, surplus Russian space suits, an ex-astronaut adviser, and, most importantly, a space drive that uses newly discovered sufficiently advanced technology (that is, indistinguishable from magic).
		Leaving aside the three things needed to make the story work (knowledge, money, and magic) the rest is very well grounded in a realistic-feeling world (depending on your precise definition of realistic, of course).
	www-users.cs.york.ac.uk /~susan/sf/books/v/varley.htm (528 words)

	ipedia.com: John Varley Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		John Varley was an English watercolour painter John Varley is a science fiction author.
		He has written several novels and numerous short stories, many of them in a future history where years before a...
		John Varley (1778-1842) was an English watercolour painter
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