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Shakespeare in Space

The Golden Globe by John Varley

August 28, 2022 by sabian30 Leave a Comment

I’ll admit up front that I’m a big John Varley fan. I only keep books on my shelf that I reread periodically, and I have TWO Varley books on prime real estate, Millennium and Persistence of Vision. When I discovered his bio-science fiction short stories, I’d never read anything like it. Gender-swapping, body modifications to live on barren worlds, and Moon disneylands. They were all new concepts to someone who had been raised on spaceships and little green men. When I saw a John Varley […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: john varley, Lear, Lunar Disneyland, Shakespeare, Sparky

sabian30's CBR14 Review No:28 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: john varley, Lear, Lunar Disneyland, Shakespeare, Sparky ·
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