Eight Worlds | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-15

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Worlds


00:02:12 1 Common characters
00:02:23 1.1 Pre-Invasion
00:03:04 1.1.1 Anna Louise Bach
00:05:53 1.1.2 Megan Galloway
00:08:01 1.2 Post-Invasion
00:09:01 1.2.1 Fox and Argus
00:09:48 1.2.2 Cathay
00:10:42 1.2.3 Parameter/Equinox/Solstice
00:11:55 1.2.4 Hildy Johnson
00:12:25 1.2.5 Sparky Valentine
00:12:41 1.3 Groups and Organizations
00:12:52 1.3.1 The Invaders
00:14:31 1.3.2 Free Earthers
00:17:09 1.3.3 Heinleiners
00:18:33 2 Common locations
00:18:44 2.1 King City
00:19:31 2.2 "disneylands"
00:20:28 3 Technologies
00:21:29 3.1 Nullfield
00:23:05 3.2 Symbiotic spacesuits
00:26:26 3.3 Genetic manipulation
00:27:53 3.4 Personality recording
00:30:42 3.5 Black holes
00:33:42 3.6 Singularity
00:34:41 4 Consistency
00:36:03 5 Bibliography
00:36:13 5.1 Short stories
00:38:40 5.2 Novels
00:39:19 5.3 Collections



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SUMMARY
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The Eight Worlds are the fictional setting of a series of science fiction novels and short stories by John Varley, in which the solar system has been colonized by human refugees fleeing an alien invasion of the Earth. Earth and Jupiter are off-limits to humanity, but Earth's moon and the other worlds and moons of the solar system have all become heavily populated. There are also minor colonies set in the Oort cloud at the edge of the solar system.  Faster than light travel is not (as yet) possible, though it's mentioned that test-flights will begin soon at the end of The Golden Globe, and the species has not as yet managed to extend itself to other stars.
The series mostly deals with the ways in which technology and necessity shape morality and society. Instant sex changes are considered a matter of fashion, rather than gender-identity, and many long-standing human sexual taboos no longer exist.
The Eight Worlds story "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank", published in 1976, was adapted into a TV movie in 1985 starring Raul Julia.
The stories were written at different times and are not always consistent with each other.  In particular, the novels Steel Beach and The Golden Globe are explicitly stated as being inconsistent with the original history (see Consistency, below). Varley has written that the Eight Worlds background should be regarded as a group of common characters and situations that appear in different stories rather than a single consistent setting. Several of the stories feature common characters, and these may be seen as linking together the whole series.