![]() ![]() These stories are set a century or two after a race of mysterious and omnipotent aliens, the Invaders, have almost completely eradicated humans from the Earth (they regard whales and dolphins to be the superior Terran lifeforms and humans only a dangerous infestation). Varley has written several novels (his first attempt, Gas Giant, was, he admits, "pretty bad") and numerous short stories, many of them in a future history, "The Eight Worlds". He also has lived at various times in Portland and Eugene, Oregon, New York City, San Francisco again, Berkeley, and Los Angeles. ![]() ![]() He was serendipitously present at Woodstock in 1969 when his car ran out of gas a half-mile away. 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. There he worked at various unskilled jobs, depended on St. 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. 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. John Herbert Varley (born August 9, 1947) is an American science fiction writer. ![]()
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