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	Titan by John Varley, a science fiction book
		After an unknown period of time, Rocky and her crew are disgorged into the Titan's incredible internal world - an organic kaleidoscope of a fairyland which they share with centaurs, harpies, angels, mudfish, not quite kangaroos, whalelike things that sail through the sky and other indescribable products of a Disneyesque imagination.
		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)

	Amazon.ca: Titan: Books: John Varley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The opening events leave all the human characters mentally "damaged" in various ways, and Varley does a very believable, mature job of developing the plot as each character overcomes or sinks deeper into his or her respective psychosis.
		What prevents Titan from being much better than it is is that Varley does not apply this same maturity to his handling of the various sexual issues he tries to address.
		In his treatment of free love, homosexuality, rape, abortion, and the like, his characters don't act like the liberated personalities he intends them to be, but simply as people who are as dogmatized in one direction as the American society of thirty years ago was dogmatized in the other.
	www.amazon.ca /Titan-John-Varley/dp/0441813046 (861 words)

	Classic Science Fiction Reviews: Titan
		(Titan was a finalist for both awards, but won neither.) All three books have remarkable similarities in subject (gigantic alien artifact-worlds), scale (human-sized people trying to deal with a world-sized space) and style (personal drama vying with obsessively detailed hard science).
		A light, humorous touch pervades virtually all of Varley's work--along with a fascination with sexual roles and intelligent sexual politics--but this is an unusually straight-faced and straightforward book, distinctly unlike any of his later, more tangled novels.
		Only Varley's precise, free-flowing style and his incredibly sharp imagination keep this from becoming a parody or a pastiche.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue83/classic.html (495 words)

	John Varley
		Varley is noteworthy for the frequent prominence of female characters, unusual in science fiction, and especially so among male authors of hard science fiction.
		The idea of routine sex changes are also an example of the sexual themes that color his works without dominating them.
		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.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/John_Varley.html (196 words)

	Yarns Without Threads - John Varley - Steel Beach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		However, Varley acknowledges that nudity can be practical, with one character spending her whole life nude.
		Ignore the dinosaurs, the special features of a lunar colony, DNA-modification and all the other SF constructs and the attitudes to nudity are not disimilar to those found in current non-SF novels of many differing styles, eg Nicola Barker's Wide Open and Leslie Meier's Star-Spangled Murder.
		Given that Varley has a whole series of plots to work through, and a substantial cast of characters to occupy the reader's attention, the book's size is justified.
	www.forcers.org.uk /nude_lit/varley.htm (507 words)

	Mailgate: rec.arts.sf.marketplace: FA: John Varley SCIFI LOT NICE!! 11-7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The opening events leave all the human characters mentally "damaged" in various ways, and Varley does a very believable, mature job of developing the plot as each character overcomes or sinks deeper into his or her respective psychosis.
		What prevents Titan from being much better than it is is that Varley does not apply this same maturity to his handling of the various sexual issues he tries to address.
		In his treatment of free love, homosexuality, rape, abortion, and the like, his characters don't act like the liberated personalities he intends them to be, but simply as people who are as dogmatized in one direction as the American society of thirty years ago was dogmatized in the other.
	mailgate.supereva.com /rec/rec.arts.sf.marketplace/msg07487.html (541 words)

	Primary Sources: John Varley's "Titan" Trilogy
		Much of the appeal of Titan and its sequels lies in the gradual unfolding of one mystery after another, as the explorers learn more and more about the strange place called Gaea.
		In Titan, the NASA spaceship Ringmaster is captured by Gaea, and her crew become the first humans in the Wheel -- exploring, encountering monsters and strange sentients, and ultimately becoming the People Who Know What's Going On when a Terran colony is established.
		Varley seems to have finished his story, but the great Wheel is still spinning out there around Saturn, with strange people and stranger aliens.
	www.sjgames.com /gurps/Roleplayer/Roleplayer28/PrimarySources28.html (808 words)

	The Templeton Gate - Authors - John Varley
		Varley wrote the screenplay himself, and while it does have its good points, due to the wooden acting by the two leads this film was not as successful as it should have been.
		Varley's first novel (recently reprinted), 1977's The Ophiuchi Hotline, is set approximately 500 years into the Eight Worlds sequence.
		Lilo, the lead character of the novel, dies within the first few pages, but a succession of her clones are caught up in an emergency which could lead to the expulsion of humanity from the solar system.
	members.tripod.com /templetongate/varley.htm (1643 words)

	John Varley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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)

	TITAN (in MARION) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Titan A. the real science behind the science fiction.
		Titan II : a history of a Cold War missile program.
		Titan IV launch vehicle microform : restructured program could reduce fiscal year 1992 funding needs : report to congressional requesters.
	www-catalog.cpl.org /MARION?T=TITAN (79 words)

	The Blog From Another Dimension: John Varley
		Varley's past novels have always had a certain weight to them, a seriousness and gravity despite the madness.
		Varley's book had a group of youngsters getting mixed up with an ex-astronaut and his crazy-genius relative and making a backyard spaceship that would take them to Mars--to beat out the Chinese mission vying to be the first humans to set foot on the red planet.
		Varley's latest book, Red Lightning, is a sequel to Red Thunder, but is still in hardcover, so I'm waiting on that one.
	www.blogd.com /archives/001888.html (1042 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Titan: Books: John Varley
		Varley is definitely on my top ten list of SF authors.
		Without spoiling the story, it is quite capable of designing a life-form which inherits language; or a plant which grows silicon circuitry in its leaves, or even, of upgrading the DNA of a human being so that it can interbreed with the centaurs.
		John Varley is a good writer, there is not much doubt about that.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Titan-John-Varley/dp/0441813046 (1516 words)

	Titan (John Varley) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Titan is a 1979 science fiction novel by John Varley.
		Gaea is part of a race called the Titans, which are sentient creations.
		She has been around for more than 3 000 000 years, and is old even by her race's standards.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Titan_(John_Varley) (303 words)

	Titan (John Varley) at AllExperts
		Titan is a 1979 science fiction novel by John Varley.
		Old age has made her slightly insane and senile, and it's up to Cirocco and her crew to meet with this alien to find a way to get home.
		• Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan at AllExperts
	en.allexperts.com /e/t/ti/titan_(john_varley).htm (348 words)

	SS > SF > book reviews > John Varley
		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).
		But it's an interesting foray into the paradoxes of time travel, with a cast who are well aware of those very paradoxes, and into the lifestyle of mammoths, and of the super-rich.
	www-users.cs.york.ac.uk /~susan/sf/books/v/varley.htm (671 words)

	The Alt.Polyamory Cultural FAQ
		John Dudley Ball, "Chief Tallon and the S.O.R." *** !!!
		John Varley, "The Persistence of Vision" *** !!!
		Her husband hires a college student to be her "mother's helper" and a complex relationship develops between them.
	www.aserve.com /holly/culturefaq.html (3468 words)

	Titan by John Varley
		Titan is an older story of astronauts caught into another alien world while exploring space.
		Im sure the sequels will introduce new things to draw you in, but once you finish this, you will understand how that initial discovery and exploration aspect of the book is lost, and any further reading looks to promise alot more drama than science.
		Varley's short story "Persistence of Vision" is one of my absolute favorite stories, so when I saw _Titan_, I thought I would be in for an interesting ride.
	www.book-summary-review.com /Titan-0441813046.htm (993 words)

	Titan, Wizard, Demon (John's Book Pages) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		I liked Titan a lot, so I was surprised that I didn't like the other two books in the series.
		Actually, Wizard was decent but I didn't like Demon at all; it felt like Varley was trapped by his own world and was writing a lot of things that the reader could have figured out.
		Recommendation: pick up Titan, which is good SF, and leave the other two on the shelf.
	books.regehr.org /reviews/titanwizarddemon.html (71 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)

	Titles by John Varley
		John Varley’s monumental trilogy—Titan, Wizard, and Demon—has achieved cult status, hailed as a modern triumph of imagination by critics and fans.
		Titan, Wizard, and Demon have enthralled a general of readers with adventure, humor, horror, and a dazzling imagination.
		Now, in the epic conclusion of John Varley’s masterpiece, the satellite-sized alien Gaea has gone completely insane.
	www.awardannals.com /creator.php?id=116 (510 words)

	Varley Vade mecum :: Ready Reference for John Varley Fans
		A drawing illustrating the interconnectedness of John Varley's Eight Worlds stories.
		In the words of our founder, "Its a good thing Varley doesn't write more or I would be tempted not to read anything else." So we have John Varley to thank for causing us to seek more great science fiction to fill out our reading schedule.
		the Science Fiction Magazine has a Varley interview in their October 2004 issue.
	www.freewebs.com /herbboehm (201 words)

	SciFan: Books: Titan by John Varley (from our database of Fantasy & SF novels, anthologies, collections)
		SciFan: Books: Titan by John Varley (from our database of Fantasy & SF novels, anthologies, collections)
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		The creation of Gaea, the Titan, an astronomically huge creature in orbit around the planet Saturn.
	www.scifan.com /titles/title.asp?TI_titleid=7039 (136 words)

	johnvarley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		I first read the book Titan when I was fifteen.
		Others have already done it better than I can.
		Varley Vade mecum - a fantastic Varley fansite by the Fictionados book club.
	www.angeltowns.com /town/blackwolf/gaea/johnvarley.html (61 words)

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	Lambda Sci-Fi Books - Book Discussions
		Red Thunder, by John Varley - September 2004
		The Curse of Chalion, by Lois McMaster Bujold - August 2004
		Steel Beach, by John Varley - April 2003
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	Titan - John Varley - Penguin Group (USA)
		Titan - John Varley - Penguin Group (USA)
		Twenty years ago, the Gaean Trilogy dazzled critics and readers.
		Now a new generation will discover that brilliant world--beginning with Titan.
	us.penguingroup.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780441813049,00.html (43 words)

	John Varley's "Titan" series - Everywhere - tribe.net
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