Review of Paingod and Other Delusions by Harlan El.Review of Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett.Playing Both Sides Against the Middle: Politics an.Review of The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of th.Review of Invisble Cities by Italo Calvino.Something of Robert Silverberg thrown in to ground the story in humanity, even if just a touch, it’s a story worth the time, if not for ending alone. Charles Stross, Walter Jon Williams, and others) can enjoy. Not a forgotten masterpiece, it remains, however, a work that readers of today’s post-human novelists (e.g. The Ophiuchi Hotline may be a novel that has been largely lost to time, but it is generally undeservingly so.
But for readers who value non-formula, Varley certainly gives them something to appreciate. No book can please everybody (though Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken comes damn close), and how Varley chooses to end The Ophiuchi Hotline will not be to everyone’s liking. Without spoiling matters, The Ophiuchi Hotline draws its strands of story into a braid upon the conclusion that induces a sense of wonder in perhaps the most literal sense. There are aliens and space travel which limit the full taxonomy, but highly+advanced plastic surgery, genderless humans, free sexuality, cybertech, dubious techno-commercial interests-all combine to give the novel something of the flavor of Schismatrix meets Neuromancer, even as the alien takeover wrangles the plot.īut for as standard as many of the ideas now seem to be, few if any books have attempted such a conclusion. Post-human before it was a thing, The Ophiuchi Hotline must certainly be considered proto-cyberpunk. Humanity divided into two camps: those who prefer the new state of humanity and those seeking revenge, the clones of one women, all named Lilo, find themselves in the thick of the factions, trying to make sense of reality getting to the bottom of who precisely the Invaders are, and their plans for humanity.
Shooting around the solar system and beyond, mysterious aliens have wiped civilization from the Earth, and what they’ve allowed to remain survives on tech doled out via the eponymous channel. The Ophiuchi Hotline will be precisely what many readers of science fiction desire and perhaps expect: a dynamic tour of ideas.
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