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Encyclopedia > John Varley

The Varley surname arrived from the french 'de Verley' during the conquest of England in 1066. The de Varley surname started in France. ...


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John Varley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (768 words)
John Herbert Varley (born August 9, 1947 in Austin, Texas) is a science fiction author.
Varley is noteworthy for the frequent prominence of female characters, unusual in science fiction, and especially so among male authors of hard science fiction.
John Varley has also written a trilogy of novels set in a hollow world reminiscent in structure to a very large Stanford torus space habitat, but with a distinctly different personality.
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