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John Varley

1947 - Today

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John Herbert Varley (born August 9, 1947) is an American science fiction writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Varley has received more than 22,104 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). John Varley is the 5,447th most popular writer (down from 4,769th in 2019), the 8,061st most popular biography from United States (down from 6,961st in 2019) and the 627th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 22k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Wizard
1983
Titan
1982
The persistence of vision
American Science fiction, Science fiction, American
1978
The Ophiuchi Hotline
Fiction in English, Science fiction, American Science fiction
1977
Demon
science fiction, fantasy, Gaea (fictional alien)
(from the back cover) Here is the dazzling climax to the story of Gaea, the alien who is, herself, a living world. And Cirocco Jones, her discoverer, adversary and more ... "EACH BOOK IN THE SERIES FAR OUTDISTANCES THE PRECEDING WORK, BUT *DEMON* IS BY FAR THE BEST -- *Dallas Times Herald*
1984
Steel beach
Fiction, Space colonies, Moon
1992
Flight or Fright
Flight Fiction, Horror fiction, Horror stories
Cargo / E. Michael Lewis -- Horror of the heights / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Nightmare at 20,000 feet / Richard Matheson -- Flying machine / Ambrose Bierce -- Lucifer! / E.C. Tubb -- Fifth category / Tom Bissell -- Two minutes forty-five seconds / Dan Simmons -- Diablitos / Cody Goodfellow, Cody -- Air raid / John Varley -- You are released / Joe Hill -- Warbirds / David J. Schow -- The flying machine / Ray Bradbury -- Zombies on a plane / Bev Vincent -- [They shall not grow old](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504289W) / Roald Dahl -- Murder in the air / Peter Tremayne -- The turbulance expert / Stephen King -- Falling / James Dickey -- Afterword: an important message from the flight deck / Bev Vincent.
2018
Titan
Fiction, science fiction, general
1982
Wizard
Fiction, general
1983
The Ophiuchi Hotline
Fiction in English, Science fiction, American Science fiction
1977
Steel beach
Fiction, Space colonies, Moon
1992
The persistence of vision
American Science fiction, Science fiction, American, Fiction, science fiction, general
1978

Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Varley ranks 5,447 out of 7,302. Before him are Ádám Bodor, Aquilino Ribeiro, Milan Rúfus, Lukas Moodysson, Kate Atkinson, and John Antoine Nau. After him are William Muir, Jacques-Pierre Amette, Roger Hargreaves, Stratis Myrivilis, Antonio Gamoneda, and Jorge de Sena.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, John Varley ranks 591. Before him are Sony Lab'ou Tansi, Subhash Kak, Babita, Rakhee Gulzar, Theda Skocpol, and Charles Rabemananjara. After him are Arkady Andreasyan, Tamotsu Suzuki, Andrea Martin, Peter Osgood, Ricardo Delgado, and Blagoje Paunović.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Varley ranks 8,061 out of 20,380. Before him are Big Pun (1971), Moira Kelly (1968), John Antoine Nau (1860), Thomas Ewing (1789), Arthur Freed (1894), and Carleton S. Coon (1904). After him are Michael Mullen (1946), Everett Sloane (1909), Thelma Houston (1946), Judith Jarvis Thomson (1929), Peter Mark Richman (1927), and Tom McCarthy (1966).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, John Varley ranks 627. Before him are Bill O'Reilly (1949), Madeline Miller (1978), Isabel Briggs Myers (1897), Christopher Paolini (1983), Scott O'Dell (1898), and John Antoine Nau (1860). After him are Richard Scarry (1919), Jeffrey Eugenides (1960), Martin Cruz Smith (1942), Amy Tan (1952), Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836), and John Keel (1930).

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