Series
Eight Worlds
John Varley · 4 novels · 4 novellas · 15 novelettes · 1 short story · 1974–2018
The Eight Worlds is the fictional setting of a series of science fiction novels and short stories by John Varley, in which the Solar System has been colonized by human refugees fleeing an alien invasion of the Earth. Earth and Jupiter are off-limits to humanity, but Earth's Moon and the other worlds and moons of the Solar System have all become heavily populated. There are also minor colonies set in the Oort cloud at the edge of the Solar System. Faster than light travel is not possible, though it is mentioned that test-flights will begin soon at the end of The Golden Globe, and the species has not as yet managed to extend itself to other stars.
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Anna-Louise Bach(5 works)
- Metal Trilogy(5 works)
Map
Eight Worlds at the centre, 2 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1970s15
- 1980s3
- 1990s4
- 2000s1
- 2010s1
Shape
4 novels · 4 novellas · 15 novelettes · 1 short story
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionspace colonizationthe moonfar futurereflectiveadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 30% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book20 of 24 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Irontown Bluesdarkest
- Good-Bye, Robinson Crusoebrightest
- Steel Beachcalmest
- Overdrawn at the Memory Bankmost intense