I just read _Red Thunder_, and it was remarkably disappointing. Varley's written some sf that I'm very fond of (notably _The Ophiuchi Hotline_ and _The Golden Globe_ and much of the Nine Worlds short fiction), and part of what I've liked has been his inventiveness. I'm very fond of idea-a-minute sf
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Anyway I, too, was annoyed by "Red Thunder". But the good news is that I got so annoyed that I tried to write a novel which is to those of John Varley's eight worlds books as "Red Thunder" is to Heinlein's mid-period. And while I don't think I succeeded perfectly, by ironic coincidence John's editor bought it and it's scheduled for publication in July 2006. So it can't be all that bad.
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