Series
Gaean
John Varley · 3 novels · 1979–1984
The Gaea Trilogy consists of three science fiction novels by John Varley. The stories tell of humanity's encounter with a living being in the shape of a 1,300 km diameter Stanford torus, inhabited by many different species, most notably the centaur-like Titanides, in orbit around the planet Saturn.
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Map
Gaean at the centre, 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.
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By decade
- 1970s1
- 1980s2
Shape
3 novels
1 author · completed series
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Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.