She gets the sarcastic tone of Lilo's voice in her own head just right. For starters try these stories that include Varley's suite of technologies that change human society: "Options" "Picnic on Nearside" "The Phantom of Kansas" "Lollipop and the Tar Baby" "Beatnik Bayou" "Equinoctial" Gabra Zackman reads THE OPHIUCHI HOTLINE well. If this sparks your interest but you find yourself at a loss on some of the issues dealt with in THE OPHIUCHI HOTLINE, go back and read (yes like pick up a book with paper and ink) some of his earlier short stories.
In the earlier stories Varley explores the societal impact of cloning, changing and memory recording through engaging characters and memorable events. It is a shame that this is the only story from John Varley's 8-Worlds series presently available on Audible. John Varleys work titled The Ophiuchi Hotline is a novel about one main characters search for knowledge and identity. The Ophiuchi Hotline is a Used Mass Market Paperback available to purchase and shipped from Firefly Bookstore in Kutztown, PA. Published by Quantum Science Fiction in 1977Ĭompare this idea with that of the star stone from Roger Zelazny's still-amazing 1976 novel Doorways in the Sand as well as the aliens from Robert Heinlein's 1951 novel The Puppet Masters.An SF classic where Varley deftly combines cloning and memory recording to give a sort of pseudo-immortality to its practitioners.
One eventually uncovers the source of the Ophiuchi Hotline and discovers humanity's only hope for a future. The search for knowledge is enhanced when she becomes three Lilos. upon permeating the nervous system of its host, is born as a thinking being. Preview of The Ophiuchi Hotline Summary: The novel focuses on Lilo's search for knowledge, as well as her search for her own identity.
The symb's body extends into the lungs and through the alimentary canal. The Ophiuchi Hotline was John Varley's first novel, and it received nominations for both the Hugo and Nebula awards he later won both for his book Persistence of Vision.
At the same time it protects the fragile human from vacuum and the extremes of heat and cold. The vegetable symb gathers sunlight in space, using it to convert human waste and carbon dioxide into food and oxygen. Each human-symb pair is a closed ecology, requiring only sunlight and a small amount of solid matter to function.
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