Steel Beach is a novel by John Varley, a science fiction writer who has won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards multiple times. Steel Beach is set in the same continuity as The Golden Globe, but takes place much earlier, and was published in 1993.
The same year it was nominated for both the Hugo and Locus Awards for Best Novel. When it first came out it garnered much attention for its opening line: 'In five years the penis will become obsolete'.
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Famous quotes containing the words steel and/or beach:
“You don’t resign from these jobs, you escape from them.”
—Dawn Steel (b. 1946)
“The seashore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world. It is even a trivial place. The waves forever rolling to the land are too far-traveled and untamable to be familiar. Creeping along the endless beach amid the sun-squall and the foam, it occurs to us that we, too, are the product of sea-slime.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)