beyond the fall of night

Blurb

Steel Beach is a 1993 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 his 1998 The Golden Globe, set about ten years later.
The same year it was nominated for both the Hugo and Locus Awards for Best Novel. Upon publication it garnered much attention for its opening line: "In five years the penis will become obsolete".