Bowden P. (Trey) - , reviewed on 8/6/2007 + 260 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 3

The Golden Globe is my favorite novel by John Varley. Its part of his Eight Worlds setting and revolves around the adventures of one Sparky Valentine, one time child star, actor, con man and thief. If you ever wondered how actors earned such a bad reputation, well, Sparky will educate you on that!
There is humor, adventure, exposition and flashbacks, lots of flashbacks. I won't go into too much detail for fear of spoiling it, but they help explain how Sparky wound up playing Shakespeare in the Kuiper Belt and wound up on the wrong side of the Charonese mafia.

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