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van Vogt, A. E. [Bo] [AL] [BL] [BR] [DZ]

short stories {/33/}

[try The Best of A.E. van Vogt; ed. Malzberg, Barry; Pocket; 1976; 0671805460; $1.95] [BB] [BBT]

• ...They range from funny to some of the best, he has a least a dozen variations on a theme that the universe is filled with human like intelligences with today's earth at the lowest level of a hierarchy leading to the 'Great Galactics' who are god like, I can't remember the title but one discusses a situation where a scientist creates a compound that causes accelerated evolution with in an organism and illegally uses it on two assistants. It was one of the very best short stories I have ever read because of the ending line. -33
• Could somebody give us more information here; specific story titles, etc.? -Ph

"The Enchanted Village" {/10,20,Ph/}

[in Shape Shifters by Yolen]

• (See Spoiler section for more info)

"The Silkie" {/22,Ph/}

[in If Reader of Science Fiction; ed. Pohl, Frederik; Ace; 1966; H-19; $.60] [BBT]

• [Cause: NA Result: SC/AN?.] Assorted races of shapechangers. -Ph

"Vault of the Beast" {/Ph/}

[in The Great SF Stories 2 (1940); eds. Asimov and Greenberg; DAW; 1979; 0879974834; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]

• [Cause: NA? Result: SC?.] A shapeshifting alien; I'm told it's very good, but I haven't finished it. -Ph

Vance, Jack [Bo] [??]

"The Murthe" {141//} [??]

[in Rhialto the Marvellous; Grafton Books; 1985; 0586065059; $?] [BB] [BBT]
[American release: Rhialto the Marvellous; Pocket; 1985; 0671559915; $?] [BB]

• A rather sorry bunch of self-absorbed wizards is suddenly confronted by a witch who has fled to their time from an era in which men and women are at war. To prepare herself for the coming of her male pursuers she starts turning the local wizards into women. These wizards were eccentric to start, but their female versions are definitely weird. Rating: 4 Cause: MA Result: GC Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: 0. -141 (98/02/08)

Varley, John [Bo] [AL] [BL] [BR]

"The Barbie Murders" {11/TG/}

[in The Barbie Murders; Varley, John; Orbit; ?; 0708880975; UK: #2.50] [BB] [BBT]

• [Result: GC?.] -TG
• SF; Rating: 4 Cause: AM Result: BM Significance: + Description: - Saturation: -. -11

"Blue Champagne" {/11/}

[?]

• SF; Rating: 2 Cause: AM Significance: + Description: - Saturation: -. -11

"Options" {11,TG//}

[in Blue Champagne; Varley, John; Berkley; ?; 0425093360; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]

• SF; Rating: 4 Result: GC(Clone) Significance: + Description: 0 Saturation: 0. -11

"Overdrawn at the Memory Bank" {/Ph/}

[in Galaxy: Best of My Years; Baen, James (ed.); Ace; 1980; 0441272967; $2.25] [BB] [BBT]
[in Persistence of Vision; Varley, John; Berkley; 1984; 0425073009; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]
[in Galaxy: 30 Years of Innovative Science Fiction; eds. Pohl, Greenberg, Olander; Playboy; 1980; SFBC] [BBT]
[in Annual World's Best SF: 1977; ed. Wollheim, Donald A.; DAW; 1977; 0879972971; $1.75] [BB] [BBT]

• [Cause: AS Result: MT/AN/VR.] A man's mind is transferred into a lioness' body through advanced science for recreation, then dumped into a computer when things go wrong. Funny, but serious in places also. -Ph

"The Persistence of Vision" {/11/}

[in Persistence of Vision; Varley, John; Berkley; 1984; 0425073009; $2.95] [BB] [BBT]

• SF; Rating: 4 Cause: AM Significance: 0 Description: 0 Saturation: -. -11

"Picnic at Nearside" {/TG/11}

[in Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 1974]
[in Picnic at Nearside (aka The Barbie Murders); Varley, John; ?]

• SF; Rating: 3 Result: GC(Clone) Significance: - Description: - Saturation: -. -11

Vinicoff, Eric [??]

"Displaced" {94//} [??]

[in Analog, March 1987]

• Rating: 2 Cause: AS Result: MR/GC Significance: + Description: + Saturation: 0. Star travel for Japanese megacorp bosses involves personality readout, laser transmission and downloading into pre-cloned bodies at destination. One boss is hijacked and substituted by political opposition. -94

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