THE GOLDEN GLOBE

I have just finished reading THE GOLDEN GLOBE by John Varley. This novel marks his first extensive use of flashbacks as a narrative device. Varley breaks the reader into the concept slowly, and handles the technique so deftly that there is never any confusion as to which parts are past, and which are present. It is interesting to realize that your mind places the story in chronological order regardless of the order in which the story segments were presented. Varley uses this to force the reader's mind to frequently revise the memory of the story as older pieces fall into place. This is a great book and deserves its place in my top ten. Varley is one of my favorites. Because of his proven ability to entertain and amaze, I automatically buy and read anything with his name on it. This novel is the second installment of his "Metal Trilogy;" The first was STEEL BEACH. The rumored third is reportedly to be titled IRONTOWN BLUES.