Demon (Gaea) by John Varley Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Demon (Gaea)
Book Review: Great Read
Summary: 5 Stars
While not for the young (although I first read it when I was very young), this is a great book and by far one of the best I've ever read. John Varley is a unique and creative author.Book Review: Great ending to a great trilogy
Summary: 5 Stars
Demon is the best of the Gaia trilogy. I'm not sure if it is Varley's imagination or insanity that drives this book. You won't regret reading the trilogy.Book Review: If Andre Breton wrote Sci Fi this is what it would be like...
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved these books - they have stayed with me a long time. There is something so vivid about the place, and so satisfying about the descriptive writing, that my memory of Gaea is a lot like my memory of the painted desert, the Forbidden City, or the west coast of Scotland - that is it seems exotic - but real.
I really wish Mr. Varley would go back to Gaea, b/c then I could go back. How 'bout it John?
Book Review: Must Read
Summary: 5 Stars
I've read the trilogy 10 times and will read it again. This is by far the best of the three. Everytime you read it, you find something new... It's that good!Book Review: My favorite novel
Summary: 5 Stars
DEMON is the conclusion of Varley's Gaea trilogy (TITAN and WIZARD are the first two). The incredible imagination and dramatic skill Varley demonstrates in WIZARD finally come together to explode in DEMON. The ending is brilliant and unexpected--and utterly dramatic: Varley's diversity of characterization (arguably his weakest feature) here is at its best. This is a book about rebellion, freedom, passion, strength, identity, and even love--ironically, because many of the characters are grotesquely violent, even visceral. But he reaches the depths in order to explode to heights which are yet somehow not tinted with melodrama. Varley's work is romantic, but not naive--definitely not naive. And it reaches its very best in DEMON. Easily his masterpiece, and easily my very favorite novel of all time.