https://locusmag.com/2025/12/john-varley-1947-2025/
"John Varley (78) died December 10, 2025 in his home in Beaverton OR. He had
COPD and diabetes.
John Herbert Varley was born August 9, 1947 in Austin TX. He attended Michigan
State University. His first novelette, “Picnic on Nearside”, released in 1974,
establishing the Eight Worlds universe. He went on to publish about 20 more
Eight Worlds works, including his first novel
The Opiuchi Hotline (1977), the
Anna-Louise Bach detective stories, and the Metal Trilogy. He also wrote the
Gaean trilogy, including
Titan (1979),
Wizard (1980), and
Demon (1984),
and the four-book Thunder and Lightning series, including
Red Thunder (2003),
Red Lightning (2006),
Rolling Thunder (2008), and
Dark Lightning (2014).
Standalone novels include
Millenium (1983),
Mammoth (2005), and
Slow
Apocalypse (2012). He also wrote many shorter works of fiction featured in
magazines such as
Analog,
F&SF, and
Asimov’s, and in other texts such as
New Voices III: The Campbell Award Nominees (1980),
Year’s Best SF 9
(2004), and
The John Varley Reader: Thirty Years of Short Fiction (2004).
Titles include “In the Hall of the Martian Kings” (1976), “Air Raid (1977),
“Beatnik Bayou” (1980), “A Christmas Story” (2003), and “In Fading Suns and
Dying Moons” (2003). Much of his work has been translated into several
languages besides English.
Varley was nominated 15 times for a Hugo Award, nine times for a Nebula Award,
and 40 times for a Locus Award. Short story “The Pusher” (1981) won Hugo and
Locus Awards, and novellas “The Persistence of Vision” (1978) and “PRESS
ENTER[]” (1984) both won Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards.
Titan (1979),
The
Barbie Murders (1980), “Blue Champagne” (1981), collection
Blue Champagne
(1986), and
The John Varley Reader all received Locus Awards. He also
collected an Endeavour Award, a Prometheus Award, two Seiun Awards, a Jupiter
Award, and a Prix Apollo Award, among others and many more nominations. He
received the Robert A. Heinlein Award in 2009."
Via David Brin.
RIP,
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