Complete Short Fiction of John Varley (ed. Jerry eBooks, 2020)
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Overview: John Varley (1947- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Picnic on Nearside" for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in August 1974 and who was soon thought to be the most significant new writer of the late 1970s. He was fresh, he was complex, he understood the imaginative implications of transformative developments like cloning (see Clones), many of his protagonists were women (see Women in SF), and most of the stories he told were set within an overall background Universe whose centre of geography had been startlingly displaced – in a manner characteristic of the finest sf – from Earth itself. It may have been the case that many previous Space Operas, especially those claiming galactic scope, were set far from the home planet (which was often "forgotten"), but Varley’s innovation was twofold: to bring the displacement close to the present day, into a Near-Future setting that made it more vivid, and to present a subsequent Solar System whose own complexity seemed to mark a genuine evolutionary shift – in fictional terms – from the old geocentricity. The image of an incessantly humming solar system – it is central to books like Michael Swanwick’s Vacuum Flowers (1987) – owes as much to Varley as it does to the idioms of Cyberpunk. Urgent and risk-taking, the stories assembled in The Persistence of Vision (coll 1978; vt In the Hall of the Martian Kings 1978) and The Barbie Murders (coll 1980; vt Picnic on Nearside 1984) seemed to announce the shape of sf’s response to the end of the twentieth century. The pessimism implicit in his assumption that Homo sapiens might be exiled for cause from the home planet they had desecrated was laced through with an optimism derived directly, it seems, from the work of Robert A Heinlein. Varley’s shorter works brought him three Hugos – for "The Persistence of Vision" (March 1978 F&SF) in 1979, "The Pusher" (October 1981 F&SF) in 1982 and "PRESS ENTER _" (May 1984 Asimov’s; 1990 chap dos) in 1985 – and two Nebulas – for "The Persistence of Vision" and "PRESS ENTER _".
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy

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