History Creator / JohnVarley

John Varley (1947- ) American ScienceFiction writer.

Some of his works, such as ''Literature/Millennium1983'' and ''Film/OverdrawnAtTheMemoryBank'', have been adapted for the screen. However, he's best known for his Hugo and Nebula award winning short story ''The Persistence of Vision'' (from the collection of the same name), The ''Literature/GaeaTrilogy'', which takes place inside a moon-sized rotating [[spoiler:insane]] alien, and and for short stories and novels set in the ''Eight Worlds'' 'verse, a Heinleinian-style future history in which humanity spreads across the solar system after being forcibly ejected from earth by hostile aliens.

[[/index]]
[[index]]

** ''Literature/Titan1979''

Some of his works, such as ''Literature/{{Millennium}}'' and ''Film/OverdrawnAtTheMemoryBank'', have been adapted for the screen. However, he's best known for his Hugo and Nebula award winning short story ''The Persistence of Vision'' (from the collection of the same name), The ''Literature/GaeaTrilogy'', which takes place inside a moon-sized rotating [[spoiler:insane]] alien, and and for short stories and novels set in the ''Eight Worlds'' 'verse, a Heinleinian-style future history in which humanity spreads across the solar system after being forcibly ejected from earth by hostile aliens.

* The ''Thunder and Lightning'' series. The first book was essentially a re-envisioning of Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/RocketshipGallileo'' for the 21st Century, the later books pursue what happens to subsequent generations but it's still in many ways on big homage to Heinlein. One character is even named [[Literature/PodkayneOfMars Podkayne]].

** ''Titan'' (1979)

* The ''Thunder and Lightning'' series. The first book was essentially a re-envisioning of Heinlein's ''Rocketship Gallileo'' for the 21st Century, the later books pursue what happens to subsequent generations but it's still in many ways on big homage to Heinlein. One character is even named Podkayne.

* The ''Thunder and Lightning'' series, essentially a re-envisioning of Heinlein's ''Rocketship Gallileo'' for the 21st Century:

* The Red Thunder Trilogy, essentially a re-envisioning of Heinlein's ''Rocketship Gallileo'' for the 21st Century:

** ''Dark Lightning'' (forthcoming)

Some of his works, such as ''Literature/{{Millennium}}'' and ''OverdrawnAtTheMemoryBank'', have been adapted for the screen. However, he's best known for his Hugo and Nebula award winning short story ''The Persistence of Vision'' (from the collection of the same name), The ''Literature/GaeaTrilogy'', which takes place inside a moon-sized rotating [[spoiler:insane]] alien, and and for short stories and novels set in the ''Eight Worlds'' 'verse, a Heinleinian-style future history in which humanity spreads across the solar system after being forcibly ejected from earth by hostile aliens.

* ''Slow Apoclypse'' (2012)

** ''Red Thunder''
** ''Red Lightning''
** ''Rolling Thunder''

Some of his works, such as ''Literature/{{Millennium}}'' and ''OverdrawnAtTheMemoryBank'', have been adapted for the screen. However, he's best known for his Hugo and Nebula award winning short story ''The Persistence of Vision'' (from the collection of the same name), The GaeaTrilogy, which takes place inside a moon-sized rotating [[spoiler:insane]] alien, and and for short stories and novels set in the ''Eight Worlds'' 'verse, a Heinleinian-style future history in which humanity spreads across the solar system after being forcibly ejected from earth by hostile aliens.

* The GaeaTrilogy includes:

* The ''Eight Worlds'' setting includes: