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John Varley (author)

American science fiction author (born 1947)

John Herbert Varley (born August 9, 1947) is an American science fiction writer.

Biography

Varley was born in Austin, Texas. He grew up in Fort Worth, moved to Port Arthur in 1957, graduated from Nederland High School—all in Texas—and went to Michigan State University on a National Merit Scholarship. He started as a physics major, switched to English, then left school before his 20th birthday and arrived in Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco just in time for the "Summer of Love" in 1967. There he worked at various unskilled jobs, depended on St. Anthony's Mission for meals, and panhandled outside the Cala Market on Stanyan Street (since closed) before deciding that writing had to be a better way to make a living. He was serendipitously present at Woodstock in 1969 when his car ran out of gas a half-mile away. He also has lived at various times in Portland and Eugene, Oregon, New York City, San Francisco again, Berkeley, and Los Angeles.

Varley has written several novels (his first attempt, G

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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Varley, John

VARLEY, JOHN (1778–1842), landscape-painter, art-teacher, and astrologer, was born at Hackney on 17 Aug. 1778, the son of Richard Varley, who came to Hackney from Epworth in Nottinghamshire. His mother was a descendant of the General Fleetwood who married Cromwell's daughter Bridget. His father's profession is uncertain, but according to Redgrave he was of scientific attainments and tutor to the son of Earl Stanhope. John was the eldest of five children, two of whom, Cornelius and William Fleetwood, are treated separately. One of his sisters (Elizabeth) married William Mulready [q. v.] As a boy Varley was distinguished by his great muscular strength, his pugilistic propensities, and his love for sketching. His father, objecting to art as a profession, placed him at the age of thirteen with a silversmith; but at the death of his father in 1791, after a short time with a law stationer, his mother allowed him to follow his bent. Poverty compelled the family to move from Hackney, and a few years after 1791 they were

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John Varley

Titan (Gaea, #1)
3.94 avg rating — 9,228 ratings — published 1979 — 49 editions
Wizard (Gaea, #2)
4.06 avg rating — 5,659 ratings — published 1980 — 49 editions
Demon (Gaea, #3)
4.04 avg rating — 3,825 ratings — published 1984 — 34 editions
The Ophiuchi Hotline
3.87 avg rating — 3,610 ratings — published 1977 — 49 editions
Steel Beach
3.97 avg rating — 3,279 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions
Millennium
3.77 avg rating — 2,844 ratings — published 1983 — 38 editions
Mammoth
3.80 avg rating — 2,481 ratings — published 2005 — 15 editions
Red Thunder (Thunder and Lightning, #1)
3.86 avg rating — 2,424 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions
The Persistence of Vision
4.14 avg rating — 2,223 ratings — published 1977 — 21 editions
The Golden Globe
4.06 avg rating — 1,385 ratings — published 1998