bayes@hpfclg.UUCP (bayes) (03/07/85)
Funny, Dave, I never liked Titan, and after reading it, I stopped looking for any Varley to read. I liked the two or three of his shorter stories Ihad read before Titan, but Titan itself put me completely off Varley. Are there any other Varley stories out there that someone thinks are _better_ than Titan?? (I hope so, 'cause otherwise, I probably won't read him again, unless I just happen upon one of his stories) hpfcla!bayes "A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed."
dat@hpfcla.UUCP (dat) (03/12/85)
I'm in the middle of reading 'Millenium' by John Varley and am very impressed with the writing and more especially, with the creative juices that must have been flowing to write such a fascinating tale! Get it and read it if you haven't!!! But...does anyone have any other comments on either 'Millenium' or anything else by Varley? What of the 'Titan' (etc etc - can't think of the titles of the other books) and so on series? I thought they were a good read, but as you got further along in the series it got weaker and weaker... Sending it out at 19.2K baud, Dave Taylor
rls@ihu1g.UUCP (r.l. schieve) (03/18/85)
> But...does anyone have any other comments on either > 'Millenium' or anything else by Varley? What of the 'Titan' > (etc etc - can't think of the titles of the other books) and > so on series? I thought they were a good read, but as you > got further along in the series it got weaker and weaker... > The full series is "Titan", "Wizard" and "Demon". It is always interesting to read a series of books where the author kills off a well developed main character in an early book in the series and runs out of ways to expand later and conveniently brings the dead back to life. Too bad Varley had to come down to the level of Frank Herbert's "Dune" sequels to keep the third book going. Rick Schieve
wildbill@ucbvax.ARPA (William J. Laubenheimer) (03/19/85)
>Funny, Dave, I never liked Titan, and after reading it, I stopped looking >for any Varley to read. I liked the two or three of his shorter stories >Ihad read before Titan, but Titan itself put me completely off Varley. >hpfcla!bayes Strange... I had just the opposite experience. I came across some short stuff in various "best-of-the-year" collections and said "Gee, that's neat" to myself after reading them. Then I came across TITAN, and now I am quite thoroughly hooked on Varley. He has gone on my (very short) list of authors for whom I have completist tendencies as a result. Bill Laubenheimer ----------------------------------------UC-Berkeley Computer Science ...Killjoy went that-a-way---> ucbvax!wildbill