(pb;
1980: second novel in the Gaea Trilogy)
From
the back cover
“. . .
Human minds have entered the sprawling mind of Gaea. Now they must fight her
will. For she is much too powerful. . . and definitely insane.”
Review
Set seventy-five years after the events of Titan, this
second Gaea novel finds Cirocco Jones and Gaby in positions of considerable
power within Gaea’s sphere, even as Jones battles alcoholism, Gaby battles her
own demons, and Gaea, that mercurial alien being─cruel even when kind─creates
crazy and often deadly events within her realm. Will Jones fall under the
chemical yoke of Gaea’s machinations, or will her compressed apostasy finally
burst into open revolt? And will new, key-to-Gaea’s-plans human arrivals try to
thwart Jones’s possible rebellion?
Varley delivers on this ripe-with-promise setup in his usual
excellent fashion, maintaining the all the virtues of its one-of-a-kind source
novel, while expanding on the Gaea-based legends and twisted histories. Like Titan,
Wizard did not disappoint this not-usually-into-hard-science-fiction,
action-oriented reader. Worth owning, if you are not a prude about frank sex or
not open to hybrid-genre science fiction. Followed by Demon.
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