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Concluding Varley's seething, monumental trilogy of Titan (1979) and Wizard (1980) - about "Gaea," a vast, sentient, wheel-like rotating structure in orbit about Saturn. With several of her subsidiary brains incapacitated, Gaea is now quite mad; and, in her latest physical incarnation as a fifty-foot-tall clone of Marilyn Monroe (where most of her remaining power is concentrated), she's obsessed with crushing ex-Wizard and former ally Cirocco Jones - and with making an epic movie of the resulting showdown! (Meanwhile, the structure of Gaea is bulging with refugees from the nuclear war that, with Gaea's connivance, has ravaged the Earth.) So the suitably enormous, complicated plot here involves the step-by-step efforts of Cirocco and her allies (including ex-Chief Engineer Gaby Plauget, killed in an earlier episode, now literally a ghost in the machine; and the saintly, centaur-like race of Titanides) to defeat the apparently unkillable, all-but-omnipotent Gaea before she wipes out what's left of humanity. Grand-scale entertainment - violent, witty, irreverent, tirelessly inventive: even if the narrative is rather distant, this'll have readers guessing and gasping right up to the end. (Kirkus Reviews)

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With "Titan" and "Wizard, Demon" Varley has enthralled a generation of readers with adventure, humor, horror, and dazzling imagination. The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of "Steel Beach" and "The Golden Globe" is at his best here--in the epic conclusion of his masterpiece, the story of the alien Gaea. Note: "Titan" and "Wizard", the first two novels of this trilogy have also been reissued. This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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3.0�toiles sur 5 A satisfying conclusion to this imaginative trilogy, Jui 2 2002

Par	Rob Shimmin (Urbana, IL United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires

This review is from: Demon (Paperback)

Demon, the conclusion of the Gaean trilogy, is in my opinion the most satisfying of the three. In the first two books, I frequently got the feeling that Varley had bitten off more than he could chew, character-wise, and so filled in the gap with gratuitous sex scenes and fetishistically detailed descriptions of alien genitalia and reproductive modes. In constrast, Demon confines itself to being an epic adventure and does very well in this role.

Demon is more "stylistic" than the others. It is set up as a triple feature from the pre-cineplex days of motion pictures, broken into pieces like "Newsreel," "Short Subjects," "Feature One," etc... This affectation works well given Demon's subject matter. Gaea's godhood has finally driven her completely insane, and she has decided that all the world should be a film of her devising, that she is the arch-villain, and that it can only end with a hero coming to kill her.

In his descriptions of the insane deity, Varley uses all his considerable resources of imagination and humor. She has taken the incarnate form of a fifty-foot tall Marilyn Monroe and constructed an enormous movie studio / theatre / theme park called Pandemonium, where she and her lieutenants, mostly undead reconstructions of humanity's major religious figures (Martin Luther, Buddha, L. Ron Hubbard), await the coming of a hero and commit various atrocities.

Varley spares none of his imagination in constructing Cirocco's allies for this final conflict, either. The best-constructed of these is Snitch, a small reptilian imp surgically extracted from Cirocco's own brain and a direct link to the mind of Gaea. Many of the characters from the first two novels also return, although in a changed form. For example, Gaby has become a ghost in Gaea's brain, Chris is in the process of turning into a Titanide, and Nasu the anaconda has grown to several kilometers in length.

In short, in the long tradition of epic heroism, Demon places an array of unlikely characters against a self-proclaimed Pure Evil, and in the end, they triumph. It stretches a bit long in places, and many of the inter-character interactions are more than a little thin, but that isn't the point. This is a book about being a hero, and a fairly good one at that.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 A bizzarre yet deeply satisfying conclusion., Mars 13 2002

Par	"dieselbreeze" (Seattle, WA United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires

This review is from: Demon (Paperback)

Strange in the extreme is the conclusion of John Varley's Gaea trilogy. You had better read the other books first or you will probably be too bewildered to get beyond the opening scenes!
The story is worth every page, and Cirrocco Jones is one of my favorite heroes in any fiction. She is flawed but commanding and capable, exceedingly determined, charismatic, inspiring and frightening all at the same time. Very much like Ripley from the Alien movies.
Hordes of familiar characters return, having grown and changed in surprising ways from their last appearance in Wizard or Titan. You will marvel at their differences!
Conflict is the operative word in Demon, as this book finishes the saga in a blaze of glory. Although Gaea has lost some of her charm as a virgin territory, having been overrun with refugees from Earth, Titanides still sing and this time Cirrocco's made them into a force to be reckoned with.
Oh, and Gaea's got a new makeover and an entourage that will send you into paroxysms of laughter. Pandaemonium is brilliant!
Please do yourself a favor, and read all of these books. Demon is just the diamond cap on the golden pyramid.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 The Ultimate Unfilmable Battle Scene!!, Avril 18 2001

Par	"emeraldavatar" (Jersey City, NJ United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires

This review is from: Demon (Paperback)

The final act of the Gaea Trilogy (which never officially got that name, as far as I know) is total action, concerning the revolt led by Demon Cirocco Jones against Gaea, Goddess of Everything and insane Marilyn Monroe fan. Gaea has brought forth legions of her most twisted monsters yet, and dumped her previous "bag-lady" incarnation for an enormous Marilyn replica, mainly so she can duke it out with Cirocco more dramatically - and she wants it all on film. There are zombies, enhanced buzzbombs, armies of hapless humans armed with prop weapons, and one of the greatest duel scenes ever. And of course, there is a Golden Child at the center of the action, a child who may be the Titanides' only hope for a decent future. The assault on Heaven has begun... If you can't understand any of this review, it's because you can't even hope to work this book out without reading the first two first. There isn't as much sex in this book as the others, as almost every paragraph is dedicated to the action. Varley's new "offensive favourite" seems to be dissing religion. Just about every human religion gets a swipe or two. But, unlike some of the other reviewers of this series, I didn't find the trilogy to be anti-God. Quite the opposite - most of his explorations are in the theme "what if God was a really nasty piece of work?". So, if you're a fundamentalist, you might have issues with this book. Otherwise, it's a classic.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 This series is extra-ordinary.
It redefined science fiction fantasy. I want my own damn Titanide and we'll chat on the Ophiuchi Hotline!

Publi� le Mars 8 2001 par H. J. Spivack

5.0�toiles sur 5 An astonishing climax to a magnificent trilogy
"Demon" is one of those books that seems to have its own soundtrack, as your mind fills with a swirl of dramatic music repeatedly through this book, which is the... Read more

Publi� le Nov. 29 2000 par Beau Yarbrough

5.0�toiles sur 5 Must Read
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!

Publi� le Nov. 28 2000 par Jose J. Marti Caloca

5.0�toiles sur 5 Excellent in all ways
If you at all enjoy reading scifi-fantasy, I highly recommend this book (the whole trilogy, actually). And luckily for you, it's in print again! Read more

Publi� le Nov. 21 2000 par Lisa Bartee