Steel Beach

TitleSteel Beach
Year for Search1992
AuthorsVarley, John [Herbert](b. 1947)
Pagination480 pp.
Date Published1992
PublisherAce Books/Putnam's
Place PublishedNew York
ISBN Number9780399137594
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

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.

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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.

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1992 Varley, John [Herbert] (b. 1947). Steel Beach. New York: Ace/Putnam. 480 pp. PSt

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.