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The Golden Globe by John Varley. check out website: www.penguinputnam.com and www.varley.net
Kenneth ‘Sparky’ Valentine is an actor and con-artist on the run for murder, hiding out amongst the outer planets and moons under various guises and still performing when he gets the chance. Acting is in his blood and with surgical applications that enable him to switch gender and appearance can play various parts. His travels somewhat intensify when an unstoppable assassin, Isambard Comfort, from the Charonese Mafia, is out to kill him. Through his travels, we learn a lot about Sparky. His childhood career on TV where he becomes an interplanetary hero to kids, studio politicking and his forceful father. There is comedy and pathos and some Shakespeare all chucked into this beautifully crafted novel. If you want to learn how to write characters, John Varley is the writer to really read and appreciate. Set in his ‘Eight Worlds’ reality where the majority of his stories outside of his Gaia Trilogy are placed, there’s no problem reading with that knowledge or having read any of the other books. You get pulled into a Varley novel by the sheer dynamics of the storyline and characters. John Varley is worth all the plaudits he’s been given over the years. Read it and be hooked, cos he has a new novel out this May. GF Willmetts
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OTHER REVIEWS - May 2004
Non Fiction Mythology: The DC Comics Art Of Alex Ross Futures: 50 Years In Space The Challenge Of The Stars by David A. Hardy and Patrick Moore Lyra’s Oxford by Philip Pullman Tolkien: A Cultural Phenomenon: Second Edition by Brian Roseberry DVDs Babylon 5: The Complete First Season: Signs and Portents Fantasy Midnight Tides by Steven Erikson The Siege Of Mithila by Ashok K. Banker Broken Crescent by S. Andrew Swann The Magician’s Guild by Trudi Canavan The Destroyer Goddess by Laura Resnick The Weavers Of Saramyr by Chris Wooding The Iron Grail by Robert Holdstock Faerie Tales edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Russell Davies Darknesses by L.E. Modesitt, Jr. Slipstream Changing Of Faces by Tim Lebbon Karloff’s Circus by Steve Aylett The Well Of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde Science Fiction The Golden Globe by John Varley Market Forces by Richard Morgan It Came From Outer Space screenplay by Ray Bradbury A Gift Of Dragons by Anne McCaffrey Different Kinds Of Darkness by David Langford Felaheen The Third Arabesk by Jon Courtenay Grimwood Absolution Gap by Adrian Reynolds The Line Of Polity by Neal Asher The Affinity Trap by Martin Sketchley Natural History by Justina Robson Horror Living Dead In Dallas by Charlaine Harris Magazines
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You
know how it is. You suddenly realise you’ve missed an interesting
author’s recent books because they weren’t released on the UK market.
Point in hand is the rather superb ‘The Golden Globe’ by John Varley
released 6 years ago Stateside.
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