![]() ![]() Decisions he makes in order to survive and make the trip proceed to complicate his life. A Shakespearean-trained actor, down on his luck, wants to go from a beyond-Pluto colony back home to Luna so that he can take the part of King Lear, reserved for him if he can get there in time. The above is all background and isn't especially important to the plot, other than the knowledge that people no longer are allowed to live on Earth. (Note: Varley has admitted that he makes no special effort to keep the Eight Worlds universe strictly consistent from novel to novel that use the setting.) Earth's moon, Luna, is the center of human civilization. ![]() Fortunately, they have advanced technology and intelligent computers to aid them. Mankind has been forced to live in the rest of the solar system. ![]() The setting is Varley's Eight Worlds universe, in which unfathomable invaders from beyond the solar system-who consider cetaceans to be the planet's superior life forms-have wiped humanity from Earth and created a colony on Jupiter, where they do nothing that is detectable by mere humans. A few days ago I finished reading The Golden Globe by John Varley. ![]()
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