Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Millennium | 1983 | John Varley | Buy |
| 2 | Mammoth | 2005 | John Varley | Buy |
| 3 | Slow Apocalypse | 2012 | John Varley | Buy |
John Varley’s standalone novels cover different corners of science fiction. Millennium (1983) is a time travel thriller about a future humanity so desperate for genetic material that they snatch people from doomed aircraft just before crashes. It was adapted into a film in 1989.
Mammoth (2005) involves the discovery of a perfectly preserved mammoth in the Canadian arctic, along with a human time traveler frozen beside it. Slow Apocalypse (2012) follows a Hollywood screenwriter trying to survive in Los Angeles after a biological agent destroys the world’s petroleum reserves.