I have not read this book

[james_davis_nicoll]

So this is not a review of the book. It is a review of the blurb intended to entice me to buy it.

I do not care for this blurb but am curious how other people react to it.

Comments

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I thought you meant the blurb from Cory Doctorow on the cover, which seems like the opening move in a bait-and-switch.

(I think Varley would do better to cut out the Heinlein pastiches and instead try to pastiche himself circa 1975.)

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

"There are few writers whose work I love more than John Varley's, purely love. So why are you hurting me so bad, John Varley?"

[dionysus1999.livejournal.com]

Agreed. His early work blew the top off my teenage head. He's still a good writer, but his recent stuff is tame, TAME!

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

I'm re-reading Blue Champagne now, as it happens. Dammit, John, write more like this, please!

[dionysus1999.livejournal.com]

Wife and I just read that collection out loud to each other over the winter.