Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Steel Beach | 1992 | John Varley | Buy |
| 2 | The Golden Globe | 1998 | John Varley | Buy |
The Metal series collects two of John Varley’s novels set in the same future. Steel Beach (1992) is set on the Moon and follows a journalist through a crisis of meaning in a post-scarcity society. The Golden Globe (1998) follows a traveling actor through the outer solar system.
Both novels share a setting with Varley’s Eight Worlds stories but work as standalone reads. The “Metal” name comes from the lunar setting of Steel Beach and the artificial environments of The Golden Globe.