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This stellar collection by John Varley contains eleven provocative, utterly distinctive stories and novellas. None of them are currently available in any other book. Some have been unavailable in any form for twentyfive years or more. The result is a publishing event that no admirer of Varleyor of firstrate imaginative fictioncan afford to miss.The bulk of these stories comprise what the author calls a Grand Tour of the Solar System, moving from one thoroughly imagined setting to another with deceptive ease. The Funhouse Effect is a tale of mystery, intrigue, and illusion that takes place on a mechanized comet moving toward the sun s corona. Retrograde Summer is an account of gender reversals and family secrets set against the radically unstable backdrop of Mercury. Bagatelle pits a recurring Varley characterPolice Chief AnnaLouise Bachagainst a living bomb that threatens to devastate Lunas Dresden City. Other stories range from Venus (In the Bowl) to an underground disneyland on Pluto (GoodBye, Robinson Crusoe) to the unexplored reaches of deep space (The Black Hole Passes). The collection ends with two very different offerings that are nonetheless vintage Varley. The Unprocessed Word is a whimsical reflection on one writer s relationship with a ubiquitous, constantly evolving technology, while The Manhattan Phone Book (Abridged) is a brief, absolutely chilling meditation on the consequences of nuclear proliferation.Whatever the tone, style, or subject matter, Varley remains in complete control of this impressively varied material. GoodBye, Robinson Crusoe and Other Stories provides intellectual stimulation and pure entertainment in equal measure, and bears the unmistakable hallmark of a master storyteller on every page.
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