We get a lot of information about someone’s internal state through visual and auditory cues and it’s hard to imagine that tactile methods could compensate for missing this input, but John Varley is suggesting that people who are born blind and deaf might develop these sorts of paranormal abilities when normal sensory input is lacking. Also, the idea that communication without the masks of fake facial expressions and deceptive body language could be more informative than the “normal” methods is appealing. At first the drifter is fascinated by the ways they’ve developed to get around their “handicap,” but soon he learns that, in their community, he’s the one with the disability because he will never be able to understand their language - a language that is a lot deeper than mere spoken words could ever be.Īs someone who spends a lot of time thinking about perception, I was fascinated by a culture that can’t see or hear, and I enjoyed the parts of the story that dealt with how the group overcame their obstacles. All of these adults are both deaf and blind, though their children are not. This works well for him - he stays fed and sheltered and moves on when he’s ready for a change of scenery.īut when he comes across a walled-in settlement in the middle of Native American land, he finds that he can never fit in because the group who lives there are the adult descendents of women who contracted rubella while pregnant. " (from Wikipedia) Signed by Author.Show More there. But humans have inhabited virtually every other corner of the solar system, often through the use of biological modifications learned, in part, by eavesdropping on alien communications. These stories are set a century or two after a race of mysterious and omnipotent aliens, the Invaders, have almost completely eradicated humans from the Earth (they regard whales and dolphins to be the superior Terran lifeforms and humans as only a dangerous infestation). "Varley has written several novels (his first attempt, Gas Giant, was, he admits, "pretty bad") and numerous short stories, many of them in a future history, "The Eight Worlds". This copy has been signed and dated by the author on the title page. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The scan you see is the book you buy Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Cherryh by Isaac Asimov / Cassandra by C. Vinge / Harlan Ellison by Isaac Asimov / Jeffy is Five by Harlan Ellison / John Varley by Isaac Asimov / The Persistence of Vision by John Varley / Poul Anderson by Isaac Asimov / Hunter's Moon by Poul Anderson / C. Vinge by Isaac Asimov / Eyes of Amber by Joan D. Isaac Asimov by Isaac Asimov / The Bicentennial Man by Isaac Asimov / Joe Halderman by Isaac Asimov / Tricentennial by Joe Haldeman / Spider & Jeanne Robinson by Isaac Asimov / Stardance by Spider & Jeanne Robinson / Joan D. by Isaac Asimov / Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree, Jr. Contents include: Intro: What Again? by Isaac Asimov / Roger Zelzny by Isaac Asimov / Home Is the Hangman by Roger Zelazy / Larry Niven by Isaac Asimov /The Borderland of Sol by Larry Niven / Fritz Leiber by Isaac Asimov / Catch That Zeppelin! by Fritz Leiber / Spider Robinson by Isaac Asimov / By Any Other Name by Spider Robinson / James Tiptree, Jr. Quarter bound in bllack cloth red boards silver lettering on spine, no names, with "Doubleday Book for Review" card loosely laid in, (xiv) 561 pages, dust jacket is in Very Good Plus condition price clipped, with some fading to spine.
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