@booklet {4937, title = {The Golden Globe}, year = {1998}, month = {1998}, publisher = {Ace Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Libertarian science fiction.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {John [Herbert] Varley (b. 1947)} } @booklet {4381, title = {Steel Beach}, year = {1992}, month = {1992}, pages = {480 pp.}, publisher = {Ace Books/Putnam{\textquoteright}s}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A flawed utopia on the moon (Luna) after Earth was destroyed by aliens. No illness, climate control, people can change gender at will, racial characteristics are rare, extremely long lives. But people, and even the Central Computer, which runs pretty-much everything, are feeling depressed. The protagonist is a newspaperman/woman who is given the assignment to develop a series on Earth\’s past. The book includes an \“Author\’s Note\” (480) explaining that while the novel is set in the same future as his Eight Worlds future history, which includes four novels and eighteen stories, he has not bothered to try to keep the chronology straight. For an overview of the Eight Worlds, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Worlds. For publication details, see http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?567.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {9780399137594 }, author = {John [Herbert] Varley (b. 1947)} } @booklet {3210, title = {"Beatnik Bayou"}, howpublished = {New Voices III: The Campbell Award Nominees}, year = {1980}, note = {

Rpt. in his\ The Barbie Murders\ (New York: Berkley Books, 1980), 146-81 [Book reissued as\ Picnic on Nearside\ (New York: Berkley Books, 1984), 146-81]; and in\ The Best Science Fiction of the Year $\#$10. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Pocket Books, 1981), 209-45.

}, month = {1980}, pages = {11-45}, publisher = {Berkley Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A eutopia on the moon focusing on individualized education which also indicates flaws in the system. For example, there are not enough teachers so that contracts are arranged years before the birth of the child. The teachers are physically the same age as the child and age with them and then revert to an earlier age for the next child. Teachers teach sex. Computerized justice. The \"Beatnik Bayou\" is a small space recreated as a 1950s Louisiana bayou.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {John [Herbert] Varley (b. 1947)}, editor = {George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin (b. 1948)} } @booklet {3122, title = {"Options"}, howpublished = {Universe}, volume = { 9}, year = {1979}, note = {

Rpt. in\ The Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year $\#$9. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1980), 192-225; in his Blue Champagne. Illus. Todd Cameron Hamilton (Nile, IL: Dark Harvest, 1986), 223-62;\ \ and in\ Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias. Ed. Judith A. Little (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), 363-90.

}, month = {1979}, pages = {153-82}, publisher = {Doubleday}, address = {Garden City, NY}, abstract = {

Impact of easy sex change operations on a society that had strived for gender equality but still had significant inequalities. Experiencing both genders from the inside improves things.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {John [Herbert] Varley (b. 1947)}, editor = {Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87)} } @booklet {3023, title = {"The Barbie Murders"}, howpublished = {Isaac Asimov{\textquoteright}s Science Fiction Magazine }, volume = {2.1 }, year = {1978}, note = {

Rpt. in\ The Best Science Fiction of the Year $\#$8\ Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1979), 1-34; in his\ The Barbie Murders\ (New York: Berkley, 1980), 52-81; U.K. ed. (London: Futura, 1983), 52-81; book reissued as\ Picnic on Nearside\ (New York: Berkley, 1984), 52-81; and in\ Future Crime: An Anthology of the Shape of Crime to Come. Ed. Cynthia Manson and Charles Ardai (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1992), 165-91.

}, month = {January-February 1978}, pages = {14-44}, abstract = {

Authoritarian dystopia set in a Barbie commune in which all are women and all look alike.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {1065-6298 }, author = {John [Herbert] Varley (b. 1947)} } @booklet {3024, title = {"The Persistence of Vision"}, howpublished = {The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction }, volume = {54.3 }, year = {1978}, note = {

Rpt. in his The Persistence of Vision (New York: Dial Press/James Wade, 1978), 227-72 (U.K. ed. as In the Hall of the Martian Kings [London: Futura, 1978], 263-316); in The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year $\#$1. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1979), 1-53; and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 670-80 with an editor\’s note on 670.

}, month = {March 1978}, pages = {6-50}, abstract = {

The protagonist is a man who, following a series of recessions and a nuclear reactor accident in the Midwest that left a band of the country radioactive is wandering the country Looking for himself. He spends time in the Taos area of New Mexico living briefly in communes and discovers an intentional community composed of deaf and blind people who were born during a rubella epidemic, although their children can see and hear but only rarely speak. He stays there and learns the various languages they use, beginning with handtalk, or spelling out words in the palm of the hand to bodytalk, where people communicate with their entire bodies. And there is a third language, simply known as Touch, in which people are communicating without any contact that he fears he could never learn.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {00024-984X }, author = {John [Herbert] Varley (b. 1947)} } @booklet {9388, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Picnic on Nearside{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction}, volume = {47.2 (279)}, year = {1974}, note = {

Rpt. in his The Barbie Murders (New York: Berkley Books, 1980), 236-60; book reissued as Picnic on Nearside (New York: Berkley, 1984), 236-60; and in Humanity 2.0. Ed. Alex Shvartsman (Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick/Arc Manor, 2016), 111-35.\ 

}, month = {August 1974}, pages = {94-115}, abstract = {

The story takes place on the moon in a world where it is possible to change body type, gender, and so forth many times and many other technological changes, generally presented favorably. The protagonist, a boy, and a friend, who has recently had the change from male to female, visit to an undeveloped part of the moon, called Nearside, where they find an old man living, the last human on Nearside, and even though undeveloped and abandoned, Nearside is also presented mostly positively.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {00024-984X }, author = {John [Herbert] Varley (b. 1947)} }