He has won both the Nebula and Hugo awards for his work. And by the twenty-fifth century, the technological gifts from the Hotline-especially its biological and medical solutions-have created a world unlike any ever known or imagined.Ībout the Author John Varley is the author of Slow Apocalypse, the Gaean Trilogy ( Titan, Wizard, and Demon), Steel Beach, The Golden Globe, Red Thunder, Mammoth, Red Lightning, and Rolling Thunder. Read The Ophiuchi Hotline by John Varley available from Rakuten Kobo.
But they are not alone in their struggle-someone or something, somewhere in deep space, is sending them advanced scientific data via the Ophiuchi Hotline. The remnants of humanity that survived relocated to the moon and other planets. In the next two years, ten billion humans starved to death. The Invaders quietly destroyed every evidence of technology, then peacefully departed, leaving behind plowed ground and sprouting seeds. they said they came on behalf of the intelligent species of Earth-dolphins and whales. The invaders came in 2050.They did not kill anyone outright. Ophiuchi Hotline, The by Gilbert Lindsay LBP 3,140,000 by LBP 2,090,000 LBP 3,140,000 by Bernadette Abraham LBP 2,090,000 by Squire.
Published by Quantum Science Fiction in 1977Ĭompare this idea with that of the star stone from Roger Zelazny's still-amazing 1976 novel Doorways in the Sand as well as the aliens from Robert Heinlein's 1951 novel The Puppet Masters.About the Book The very first book by the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of "Red Lightning" is now reissued with an exciting new look.īook Synopsis THE BRILLIANT NOVEL THAT LAUNCHED THE VARLEY PHENOMENON upon permeating the nervous system of its host, is born as a thinking being. The symb's body extends into the lungs and through the alimentary canal. At the same time it protects the fragile human from vacuum and the extremes of heat and cold. Life goes on and most people accept the new state of affairs. The vegetable symb gathers sunlight in space, using it to convert human waste and carbon dioxide into food and oxygen. Knowledge gleaned from the Ophiuchi Hotline allowed the Lunar and other colonies to survive. Each human-symb pair is a closed ecology, requiring only sunlight and a small amount of solid matter to function.
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