"Irontown Blues (Eight Worlds)" by John Varley
https://www.amazon.com/Irontown-Blues-Eight-Worlds-Varley/dp/1101989378/

Book number four of a loose four book science fiction series plus
several short stories. I read the well printed and well bound trade
paperback published by Ace in 2018. As with Cory Doctorow, Tom Clancy,
William Gibson, and many others, I love and have read all of John
Varley's books. His Thunder and Lightning four book series is is in my
six star books.

It has been several hundred years since the Invaders came to the Solar
System and destroyed all of the infrastructure on Earth to help the
dolphins and whales in a pristine environment. No human technology is
allowed on Earth or Jupiter, space ships landing on the Earth are
destroyed. Most of the people on Earth subsequently died. The 5,000
humans on the Moon, 1,000 humans on Mars, and the few scattered across
the outer planets and asteroid belt have expanded to several million
people since then.

Chris Bach is a private eye, former police officer, in the warrens of
the Moon. Life is much easier now than when the Invaders first came to
Earth and destroyed the resupply rockets to the Moon. Sherlock is his
trusty sidekick, a genetically engineered smart bloodhound with an
implanted AI. They are visited once day by a woman inflected by a
biohacker form of leprosy who wants to find the man who infected her.
Things are never what they seem on the Moon.

John Varley has a website at:
https://varley.net/

An explanation of the Eight Worlds universe is at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Worlds

My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (381 reviews)

Lynn

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On 4/30/2023 9:50 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

"Irontown Blues (Eight Worlds)" by John Varley

https://www.amazon.com/Irontown-Blues-Eight-Worlds-Varley/dp/1101989378/

Book number four of a loose four book science fiction series plus
several short stories.  I read the well printed and well bound trade paperback published by Ace in 2018.  As with Cory Doctorow, Tom Clancy, William Gibson, and many others, I love and have read all of John
Varley's books.  His Thunder and Lightning four book series is is in my
six star books.

It has been several hundred years since the Invaders came to the Solar
System and destroyed all of the infrastructure on Earth to help the
dolphins and whales in a pristine environment.  No human technology is allowed on Earth or Jupiter, space ships landing on the Earth are destroyed.  Most of the people on Earth subsequently died.  The 5,000 humans on the Moon, 1,000 humans on Mars, and the few scattered across
the outer planets and asteroid belt have expanded to several million
people since then.

Chris Bach is a private eye, former police officer, in the warrens of
the Moon.  Life is much easier now than when the Invaders first came to Earth and destroyed the resupply rockets to the Moon.  Sherlock is his trusty sidekick, a genetically engineered smart bloodhound with an
implanted AI.  They are visited once day by a woman inflected by a
biohacker form of leprosy who wants to find the man who infected her.
Things are never what they seem on the Moon.

John Varley has a website at:
   https://varley.net/

An explanation of the Eight Worlds universe is at:
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Worlds

My rating:  5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating:  4.3 out of 5 stars (381 reviews)

Lynn

I forgot to mention the adulations to Heinlein. The Irontowners are
also called Heinleiners due to their dismissal of all authority yet with
a total personal responsibility and for their refusal to get chipped
with an interface for the Central Computer for Luna.

And the Heinleiners are building a five mile long space ship on Luna
called the Robert A. Heinlein.

John Varley usually throws a Heinlein mention in his books somewhere,
sometimes it stands out, sometimes it is well hidden. However, he is
not a Heinlein apologist like Sarah Hoyt or Jo Walton.

Lynn

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