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"Press Enter", often stylized PRESS ENTER , is a science fiction novella by American writer John Varley originally published in the May 1984 issue of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. In 1985 it won the Locus Award for Best Novella, Hugo Award for Best Novella and Nebula Award for Best Novella.
By John Varley, first published in Asimov's Science Fiction. When a man receives a mysterious automated phone call from his reticent neighbor, he finds himself in the midst of a technologically adept murder mystery.
Dive deep into John Varley's Press Enter with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion.
May 1, 1984 · Press Enter, which won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards for Best Novella in 1985, works on so many levels — it’s a romance, murder mystery, psychological drama, and horror story. It’s exciting, moving, and scary. Though Press Enter is set in the early 1980s, it feels nostalgic rather than dated.
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The Science Fiction Book Club Collection Press Enter by John Varley and Illustrated by Bob Eggleton is a small bu powerful little book. Press Enter won both the Hugo and the Nebula Award in 1984.
When Victor arrives at Charles Kluge’s house, he finds Kluge dead and slumped over his computer keyboard, so he calls another neighbor — a computer operator named Hal (har, har) — and the cops. When the computer screen asks them to PRESS ENTER, they do, and this initiates Kluge’s strange interactive suicide note.
This Study Guide consists of approximately 8 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Press Enter.