Brain Implants

I see from this post over at the io9 SF web site that John Varley has a new book coming out next month: Rolling Thunder. I’m hoping it will signal a return to his old brilliance. His last couple of novels have had mixed reviews. When he is good, he is very, very good. When he is bad, it appears he writes like Robert Heinlein churning out space opera…

 

The io9 post is about Varley’s plot device in the new novel whereby everyone has a brain implant that allows them to Google information. As you might imagine, there are pros and cons.

 

As I say, I hope Varley is back on form. As I’ve mentioned before, his novel Steel Beach has the greatest opening sentence in all of Science Fiction: