Wizard Author:John Varley Former captain Cirocco "Rocky" Jones is the Wizard. Seventy-five years after the events of Titan, Rocky has an odd, almost symbiotic relationship with the planet-sized alien she calls home. But Gaea is three-million-years old, a supreme ruler, a god, whose body is failing and whose mind is swiftly deteriorating. Signs, portents and warnings from... more » every quarter of the living world hint at one devasting conclusion: Gaea has gone insane. Rocky is not in much better shape herself. The once-proud commander is little more than a drunken bum, trying to wash away with gin the knowledge that she needs Gaea, and Gaea needs her, and that someday they must struggle.« less