"It is fast and complex, and it glitters most impressively."--Science Ficiton: The 100 Best Novels
"John Varley is the best writer in America."--Tom Clancy
"This is a novel rich in societies, settings, and technological wizardry. It's a tough-minded, yet a playful book."--Ian Watson
Gollancz's Science Fiction Collector's series, which offers the finest classics of the genre, now presents a thought-provoking and multiple award-nominated novel by acclaimed author John Varley. After the effortless capture of Earth by vastly superior aliens, humanity is forced to fight for existence on the Moon and other lumps of airless rock. The invention of the Hotline--a constant stream of data from a star in the constellation Ophiuchus--facilitates survival and enables the development of amazing new technologies. Then, after 400 years, humanity's unknown helpers send a bill for their services...and suddenly everything is threatened once again.
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.
"It is fast and complex, and it glitters most impressively."--Science Ficiton: The 100 Best Novels
"John Varley is the best writer in America."--Tom Clancy
"This is a novel rich in societies, settings, and technological wizardry. It's a tough-minded, yet a playful book."--Ian Watson
Gollancz's Science Fiction Collector's series, which offers the finest classics of the genre, now presents a thought-provoking and multiple award-nominated novel by acclaimed author John Varley. After the effortless capture of Earth by vastly superior aliens, humanity is forced to fight for existence on the Moon and other lumps of airless rock. The invention of the Hotline--a constant stream of data from a star in the constellation Ophiuchus--facilitates survival and enables the development of amazing new technologies. Then, after 400 years, humanity's unknown helpers send a bill for their services...and suddenly everything is threatened once again.
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.
"It is fast and complex, and it glitters most impressively."--Science Ficiton: The 100 Best Novels
"John Varley is the best writer in America."--Tom Clancy
"This is a novel rich in societies, settings, and technological wizardry. It's a tough-minded, yet a playful book."--Ian Watson
Gollancz's Science Fiction Collector's series, which offers the finest classics of the genre, now presents a thought-provoking and multiple award-nominated novel by acclaimed author John Varley. After the effortless capture of Earth by vastly superior aliens, humanity is forced to fight for existence on the Moon and other lumps of airless rock. The invention of the Hotline--a constant stream of data from a star in the constellation Ophiuchus--facilitates survival and enables the development of amazing new technologies. Then, after 400 years, humanity's unknown helpers send a bill for their services...and suddenly everything is threatened once again.
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.
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197750falseSun Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009Tue Nov 17 12:58:10 -0800 2009Fri Nov 27 05:05:12 -0800 2009
Tout commence avec la première mort de Lilo, une ingénieur en biotechnologies qui, pour s'être intéressée d'un peu trop près au génome humain, se retrouve condamnée à mort. Evidement, il ne lui arrivera pas que ça.
Et je n'en dirai pas plus sur l'intrigue parce ...more...]]>
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3.82233
Publishers Weekly
"It is fast and complex, and it glitters most impressively."--Science Ficiton: The 100 Best Novels
"John Varley is the best writer in America."--Tom Clancy
"This is a novel rich in societies, settings, and technological wizardry. It's a tough-minded, yet a playful book."--Ian Watson
Gollancz's Science Fiction Collector's series, which offers the finest classics of the genre, now presents a thought-provoking and multiple award-nominated novel by acclaimed author John Varley. After the effortless capture of Earth by vastly superior aliens, humanity is forced to fight for existence on the Moon and other lumps of airless rock. The invention of the Hotline--a constant stream of data from a star in the constellation Ophiuchus--facilitates survival and enables the development of amazing new technologies. Then, after 400 years, humanity's unknown helpers send a bill for their services...and suddenly everything is threatened once again.
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.
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3.7818 In 2050, the Invaders came to Earth, destroyed every evidence of technology, then peacefully departed. Humanity struggled to survive, but help was coming-via the Ophiuchi Hotline.]]>
197730falseWed Nov 18 21:08:20 -0800 2009Wed Nov 18 21:09:39 -0800 2009 I'm 1/3 way through and still a little confused with the story.
"It is fast and complex, and it glitters most impressively."--Science Ficiton: The 100 Best Novels
"John Varley is the best writer in America."--Tom Clancy
"This is a novel rich in societies, settings, and technological wizardry. It's a tough-minded, yet a playful book."--Ian Watson
Gollancz's Science Fiction Collector's series, which offers the finest classics of the genre, now presents a thought-provoking and multiple award-nominated novel by acclaimed author John Varley. After the effortless capture of Earth by vastly superior aliens, humanity is forced to fight for existence on the Moon and other lumps of airless rock. The invention of the Hotline--a constant stream of data from a star in the constellation Ophiuchus--facilitates survival and enables the development of amazing new technologies. Then, after 400 years, humanity's unknown helpers send a bill for their services...and suddenly everything is threatened once again.
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.
"It is fast and complex, and it glitters most impressively."--Science Ficiton: The 100 Best Novels
"John Varley is the best writer in America."--Tom Clancy
"This is a novel rich in societies, settings, and technological wizardry. It's a tough-minded, yet a playful book."--Ian Watson
Gollancz's Science Fiction Collector's series, which offers the finest classics of the genre, now presents a thought-provoking and multiple award-nominated novel by acclaimed author John Varley. After the effortless capture of Earth by vastly superior aliens, humanity is forced to fight for existence on the Moon and other lumps of airless rock. The invention of the Hotline--a constant stream of data from a star in the constellation Ophiuchus--facilitates survival and enables the development of amazing new technologies. Then, after 400 years, humanity's unknown helpers send a bill for their services...and suddenly everything is threatened once again.
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.
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<![CDATA[The Ophiuchi Hotline]]>
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3.82233
Publishers Weekly
"It is fast and complex, and it glitters most impressively."--Science Ficiton: The 100 Best Novels
"John Varley is the best writer in America."--Tom Clancy
"This is a novel rich in societies, settings, and technological wizardry. It's a tough-minded, yet a playful book."--Ian Watson
Gollancz's Science Fiction Collector's series, which offers the finest classics of the genre, now presents a thought-provoking and multiple award-nominated novel by acclaimed author John Varley. After the effortless capture of Earth by vastly superior aliens, humanity is forced to fight for existence on the Moon and other lumps of airless rock. The invention of the Hotline--a constant stream of data from a star in the constellation Ophiuchus--facilitates survival and enables the development of amazing new technologies. Then, after 400 years, humanity's unknown helpers send a bill for their services...and suddenly everything is threatened once again.
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.
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<![CDATA[The Ophiuchi Hotline]]>
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3.82233
Publishers Weekly
"It is fast and complex, and it glitters most impressively."--Science Ficiton: The 100 Best Novels
"John Varley is the best writer in America."--Tom Clancy
"This is a novel rich in societies, settings, and technological wizardry. It's a tough-minded, yet a playful book."--Ian Watson
Gollancz's Science Fiction Collector's series, which offers the finest classics of the genre, now presents a thought-provoking and multiple award-nominated novel by acclaimed author John Varley. After the effortless capture of Earth by vastly superior aliens, humanity is forced to fight for existence on the Moon and other lumps of airless rock. The invention of the Hotline--a constant stream of data from a star in the constellation Ophiuchus--facilitates survival and enables the development of amazing new technologies. Then, after 400 years, humanity's unknown helpers send a bill for their services...and suddenly everything is threatened once again.
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.
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3.82233 In 2050, the Invaders came to Earth, destroyed every evidence of technology, then peacefully departed. Humanity struggled to survive, but help was coming-via the Ophiuchi Hotline.]]>
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http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64931.The_Ophiuchi_Hotline
3.82233
Publishers Weekly
"It is fast and complex, and it glitters most impressively."--Science Ficiton: The 100 Best Novels
"John Varley is the best writer in America."--Tom Clancy
"This is a novel rich in societies, settings, and technological wizardry. It's a tough-minded, yet a playful book."--Ian Watson
Gollancz's Science Fiction Collector's series, which offers the finest classics of the genre, now presents a thought-provoking and multiple award-nominated novel by acclaimed author John Varley. After the effortless capture of Earth by vastly superior aliens, humanity is forced to fight for existence on the Moon and other lumps of airless rock. The invention of the Hotline--a constant stream of data from a star in the constellation Ophiuchus--facilitates survival and enables the development of amazing new technologies. Then, after 400 years, humanity's unknown helpers send a bill for their services...and suddenly everything is threatened once again.
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.
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A species called Invaders has destroyed all Earth technology in the year 2050. The remaining people there exist at a stone-age level. Other humans survive on all available solid bodies in the solar system with the aid of a technology derived from the Hotline, a radio signal apparently beamed from the star 70 Ophiuchi. They live mostly underground on Luna, Mars, Venus, Mercury & Pluto. There are no settlements on the moons of Jupiter, because the Invaders live in its atmosphere. Using Symbiotic Spacesuits, thousands also enjoy an odd existence floating in the rings of Saturn.
The Invaders' purpose is simple. They recognize two kinds of intelligent life: themselves, evolving in the atmospheres of planets like Jupiter, & sea-living mammals like whales & dolphins. Humans & other tool-users are vermin. They reduced humanity to the stone-age to protect whales & dolphins.
Important technological elements of the stories are cloning & the ability to record memories, restoring them later. There is also advanced cosmetic body alteration. Everyone is fitted with a dataport which allows computer interrogation. They can also have their nervous system shut down selectively for surgery. Many change gender or choose none at all.
One result of cloning is that murder is a second-rate crime since victims can be revived, the murderer only depriving them of some months' memories.
Legal cloning is restricted to reviving dead persons. For the sake of population control, it's forbidden to copy living persons. Upon discovery, such an illegal copy--who is as much of a full person as the original--must be destroyed. Illegally-made clones have no recourse to law & are effectively at the mercy of whoever created them--a point important to the plot.
Lilo is a rebel geneticist on Luna. Violating laws of the Eight Worlds, she's experimented with human DNA, using money she received from her legal work on such creations as the Bananameat tree. The story opens with her facing execution. Her cell is quite luxurious. Her only inconveniences are isolation & being used as a subject in criminology classes.
On the eve of her execution, she is visited by one she knows as Boss Tweed, the most powerful politician in Luna. Accompanying Tweed is a formidable bodyguard & Lilo's own clone, fresh from the growth tank with a full set of memories. Tweed offers Lilo a deal. She can escape & the clone will die, or vice versa. It's unclear which she chooses, because the next scenes show one Lilo committing suicide in the prison, another going free with Tweed. Whichever it is, the corpse goes into a captive black hole which serves as a power plant for Luna, generating energy from garbage.
Lilo learns she is to be a cog in Tweed's machine, to be trained for use in his schemes to strike at the Invaders. Like all Lunarians she will periodically record her memories for restoration into a clone if her body dies. The first time she does this with Tweed, the next experience recorded is being revived & told that she's been killed twice for escaping. She is the third clone Tweed has made of her. Lilo resolves to be much more careful.
As in other stories involving brain-recording & cloning (e.g. The Phantom of Kansas in The Persistence of Vision) readers may wonder what personal identity means when bodies & memories can be rebuilt. The novel elaborates even more on this theme until hinting that there is more to it than simple biochemistry at the end.
Tweed's bodyguards are themselves clones of one individual, both male & female, called Vaffa or Hygeia. They are large, strong & deadly. Tweed's one weakness is that his operation is clandestine. Despite his power, his illegal cloning & his intent to take on the Invaders would result in his downfall if known.
Lilo is sent to an asteroid. Her job is maintaining a food supply. Vaffas guard these workers, some of whom have been shanghaied, in the sense that their memories & tissues were stolen by Tweed & their clones awakened to lives of semi-slavery. One such is Cathay, a Teacher. In this time Teaching means devoting yourself to helping one child mature, regressing in age if necessary. Cathay & Lilo become bonded lovers--a rarity in a society where sex is recreational.
On the asteroid, all have null-field suits that generate a field just above the skin to protect against vacuum--another piece of Hotline technology. Air comes from implanted generators.
Tweed intends to send a stolen black hole thru Jupiter to see what the Invaders will do. Lilo & Cathay are recruited. They eliminate the Vaffa sent with them. Cathay escapes in the ship used to tow the Hole. Lilo is left to fall with the Hole into Jupiter's atmosphere. Protected by her suit, she encounters an Invader.
Another Lilo awakes in Tweed's tank. This one has no memory of the asteroid, or anything else since the previous copy left Luna. She is sent on a mission to Pluto. There is something new & dangerous coming down the Hotline. The actual beam misses the solar system--it was originally found when probes went out beyond the Pluto's orbit. Nobody's sure whether it's intended for another system or whether the point is to ensure information is only available to those with the right technology.
The new messages seem demands for payment. Whoever's been providing the information for centuries wants compensation. The decoders can't determine what that is. Lilo & another Vaffa reach Pluto & look for a Hunter to take them to the beam. Hole Hunters are prospectors who ship out for years, looking for the miniature black holes orbitting the solar system. Most return facing bankruptcy. Their guide is another copy of Cathay with no knowledge of his alter ego. He & Lilo bond, just as the other two did. They eventually hire Javelin, a grotesque who's altered her body for free fall. She consists of a head on a cut down torso with two other limbs. No part of her body is much wider than her head, hence her name.
Under way, Javelin announces a change of plan. Vaffa protests but Javelin overpowers her. The plan is to go to the source of the beam. The Hole Hunters have known for some time that the beam comes from something a half light-year away. Now that there is a threat, Javelin's been elected to investigate. Tweed's money will finance the trip. If Tweed doesn't like it, too bad. It's going to take 20 years. The crew elect to go into cold sleep.
Another Lilo awakes. This one was created by the original & hidden in Saturn's rings. She is revived by Lilo's companion from the asteroid, & Parameter/Solstice, a human-Symb pair Lilo had entrusted with the clone's location. The other Lilo told her companion to seek Parameter/Solstice as she was falling into Jupiter. This Lilo examines the situation & determines to take over the asteroid. They use the stolen ship to ram the asteroid, sending it into the asteroid's Hole power generator, which sits in a nullfield dish on the surface. The resultant thrust, carefully calculated, boosts the asteroid from orbit & on a journey out of the solar system to Alpha Centauri. Faced with a fait accompli, the Vaffa's throw in their lot with the prisoners. All must now work overtime to survive. Tweed's downfall is assured. The asteroid broadcasts his plans to various governments. He activates an escape plan, shedding large amounts of fake flesh & disappearing into the general population as a sexless person.
Lilo awakes. This is the Lilo who fell into Jupiter. She awakes on an Earth beach. She learns to survive, becoming, in her own mind & those of the tribes of she encounters, Diana the Huntress. With her nullfield suit she can face down animals & dive to great depths to fish. As years pass, she determines she is probably on the east coast of North America. Occasionally she sees blurs in the sky that are the only visible traces of Invaders. Finally deciding to go out in a blaze of glory, she dives into the sea to hunt a whale. As she dives after it, an Invader appears...
Lilo awakes. On Javelin's ship, she & her companions have reached the source of the Ophiuchi Hotline. It is an artificial object. Taken aboard, they meet beings who are apparently human. They are given a show.
The story is simple. Life arises on planets like Earth, in systems with planets like Jupiter. Eventually whale-like lifeforms inhabit seas. Invaders arrive, removing threats to the whales. Ultimately, the remnants of technology in the rest of the system have to be expunged when become a threat. The story cannot be changed. The Invaders manipulate not only energy & matter, but time. They live in at least four dimensions. The Hotline is part of the rescue mission to humans. They need the technology to survive when attacked again by the Invaders. It will be soon. One of the Hotline's purposes was to give humans the ability to manipulate their genetic makeup, but because of laws they passed this hasn't happened.
The Hotline people ask their price--they need to become humans themselves for a time, to add human thought & experience to the pool of knowledge held between the stars by all others ejected from their homes by Invaders. The alternative is to activate hidden features in the Symbs, turning them into an army of space-borne killers.
The Hotline people detect Invader activity. Suddenly, another Lilo appears. It is Diana the Huntress from Earth. According to the Hotline instruments, she was moved 25,000 years in the future, left there some years, then brought back. For the Invaders this is as simple as "folding a piece of paper". She also has gift from the Invaders--a small silver cube.
The Hotline people are taken aback. The cube is a null-field surrounding a singularity. Receiving a singularity from the Invaders indicates time is even shorter than they thought. It is another element of the story that always takes place. Because of Tweed's attack, the Invaders are preparing to evict humanity from the solar system, but before they do so, are offering humanity a chance to escape. The singularity is a tool to manipulate space-time & eliminate inertia, & can be used to evacuate the solar system & allow humanity to seek a new home among the stars. Unfortunately, available living space is spoken for. Humanity is in for a long time in the wilderness. Lilo, Diana & companions set out to return to the solar system, to break the bad news.
At the end the various Lilo's, past, present & future, on Javelin's ship & on the asteroid, realize they've a connection. They've been having dreams all along, & realize that the place in the dreams is somewhere they will all meet in the future.]]>
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3.82233
Publishers Weekly
"It is fast and complex, and it glitters most impressively."--Science Ficiton: The 100 Best Novels
"John Varley is the best writer in America."--Tom Clancy
"This is a novel rich in societies, settings, and technological wizardry. It's a tough-minded, yet a playful book."--Ian Watson
Gollancz's Science Fiction Collector's series, which offers the finest classics of the genre, now presents a thought-provoking and multiple award-nominated novel by acclaimed author John Varley. After the effortless capture of Earth by vastly superior aliens, humanity is forced to fight for existence on the Moon and other lumps of airless rock. The invention of the Hotline--a constant stream of data from a star in the constellation Ophiuchus--facilitates survival and enables the development of amazing new technologies. Then, after 400 years, humanity's unknown helpers send a bill for their services...and suddenly everything is threatened once again.
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.
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<![CDATA[The Ophiuchi Hotline]]>
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3.82233
Publishers Weekly
"It is fast and complex, and it glitters most impressively."--Science Ficiton: The 100 Best Novels
"John Varley is the best writer in America."--Tom Clancy
"This is a novel rich in societies, settings, and technological wizardry. It's a tough-minded, yet a playful book."--Ian Watson
Gollancz's Science Fiction Collector's series, which offers the finest classics of the genre, now presents a thought-provoking and multiple award-nominated novel by acclaimed author John Varley. After the effortless capture of Earth by vastly superior aliens, humanity is forced to fight for existence on the Moon and other lumps of airless rock. The invention of the Hotline--a constant stream of data from a star in the constellation Ophiuchus--facilitates survival and enables the development of amazing new technologies. Then, after 400 years, humanity's unknown helpers send a bill for their services...and suddenly everything is threatened once again.
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.
"It is fast and complex, and it glitters most impressively."--Science Ficiton: The 100 Best Novels
"John Varley is the best writer in America."--Tom Clancy
"This is a novel rich in societies, settings, and technological wizardry. It's a tough-minded, yet a playful book."--Ian Watson
Gollancz's Science Fiction Collector's series, which offers the finest classics of the genre, now presents a thought-provoking and multiple award-nominated novel by acclaimed author John Varley. After the effortless capture of Earth by vastly superior aliens, humanity is forced to fight for existence on the Moon and other lumps of airless rock. The invention of the Hotline--a constant stream of data from a star in the constellation Ophiuchus--facilitates survival and enables the development of amazing new technologies. Then, after 400 years, humanity's unknown helpers send a bill for their services...and suddenly everything is threatened once again.
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.
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3.82233
Publishers Weekly
"It is fast and complex, and it glitters most impressively."--Science Ficiton: The 100 Best Novels
"John Varley is the best writer in America."--Tom Clancy
"This is a novel rich in societies, settings, and technological wizardry. It's a tough-minded, yet a playful book."--Ian Watson
Gollancz's Science Fiction Collector's series, which offers the finest classics of the genre, now presents a thought-provoking and multiple award-nominated novel by acclaimed author John Varley. After the effortless capture of Earth by vastly superior aliens, humanity is forced to fight for existence on the Moon and other lumps of airless rock. The invention of the Hotline--a constant stream of data from a star in the constellation Ophiuchus--facilitates survival and enables the development of amazing new technologies. Then, after 400 years, humanity's unknown helpers send a bill for their services...and suddenly everything is threatened once again.
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.
"It is fast and complex, and it glitters most impressively."--Science Ficiton: The 100 Best Novels
"John Varley is the best writer in America."--Tom Clancy
"This is a novel rich in societies, settings, and technological wizardry. It's a tough-minded, yet a playful book."--Ian Watson
Gollancz's Science Fiction Collector's series, which offers the finest classics of the genre, now presents a thought-provoking and multiple award-nominated novel by acclaimed author John Varley. After the effortless capture of Earth by vastly superior aliens, humanity is forced to fight for existence on the Moon and other lumps of airless rock. The invention of the Hotline--a constant stream of data from a star in the constellation Ophiuchus--facilitates survival and enables the development of amazing new technologies. Then, after 400 years, humanity's unknown helpers send a bill for their services...and suddenly everything is threatened once again.
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.
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3.82233 In 2050, the Invaders came to Earth, destroyed every evidence of technology, then peacefully departed. Humanity struggled to survive, but help was coming-via the Ophiuchi Hotline.]]>
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3.82233 In 2050, the Invaders came to Earth, destroyed every evidence of technology, then peacefully departed. Humanity struggled to survive, but help was coming-via the Ophiuchi Hotline.]]>
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3.82233
Publishers Weekly
"It is fast and complex, and it glitters most impressively."--Science Ficiton: The 100 Best Novels
"John Varley is the best writer in America."--Tom Clancy
"This is a novel rich in societies, settings, and technological wizardry. It's a tough-minded, yet a playful book."--Ian Watson
Gollancz's Science Fiction Collector's series, which offers the finest classics of the genre, now presents a thought-provoking and multiple award-nominated novel by acclaimed author John Varley. After the effortless capture of Earth by vastly superior aliens, humanity is forced to fight for existence on the Moon and other lumps of airless rock. The invention of the Hotline--a constant stream of data from a star in the constellation Ophiuchus--facilitates survival and enables the development of amazing new technologies. Then, after 400 years, humanity's unknown helpers send a bill for their services...and suddenly everything is threatened once again.
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.
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<![CDATA[The Ophiuchi Hotline]]>
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http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64931.The_Ophiuchi_Hotline
3.82233
Publishers Weekly
"It is fast and complex, and it glitters most impressively."--Science Ficiton: The 100 Best Novels
"John Varley is the best writer in America."--Tom Clancy
"This is a novel rich in societies, settings, and technological wizardry. It's a tough-minded, yet a playful book."--Ian Watson
Gollancz's Science Fiction Collector's series, which offers the finest classics of the genre, now presents a thought-provoking and multiple award-nominated novel by acclaimed author John Varley. After the effortless capture of Earth by vastly superior aliens, humanity is forced to fight for existence on the Moon and other lumps of airless rock. The invention of the Hotline--a constant stream of data from a star in the constellation Ophiuchus--facilitates survival and enables the development of amazing new technologies. Then, after 400 years, humanity's unknown helpers send a bill for their services...and suddenly everything is threatened once again.
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.
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