Lawrence emailed me that the great SF writer John Varley had passed away, but he couldn’t find an obit anywhere until Michael Swanwick posted one.
I haven’t read many of his novels, but I’ve read a lot of his short fiction. “The Persistence of Vision“. “Overdrawn at the Memory Bank” (which is a fun story that was adapted into a horrible PBS movie, which you can (but shouldn’t) watch in the MST3K version on the ‘Tube). “Air Raid”, which was adapted into Millennium, the novel, which was turned into “Millennium”, the movie (which I hear is awful, but have not seen).
“Press Enterâ– ”. I remember standing in a Bookstop in Austin reading that story when it was published in Asimov’s…and coming very close to vomiting all over the magazine when I got to a key point in the story. (If you’ve read it, you can probably guess where.)
I actually have seen the movie Millennium, and yes it was dreadful. Yet at the time I seemed to think that it was ok. I must have, since I watched it again later, and then figured out that it was bad.
I must have taken a strong narcotic for a migraine the first time. But Cheryl Ladd was hot at the time.
I think Cheryl Ladd mitigates at least some of the movie’s possible sins.
It looks like I can get a used DVD of it fairly cheap. According to Wikipedia, there was a Shout! Factory blu-ray that combined it with “R.O.T.O.R.”: the latter sounds even worse than “Millennium”.