''Blue Champagne'' is a 1986 collection of
science fiction stories by American writer
John Varley John Varley may refer to:
* John Varley (canal engineer) (1740–1809), English canal engineer
* John Varley (painter) (1778–1842), English painter and astrologer
* John Varley (author) (born 1947), American science fiction author
* John Silvest ...
. It was published as a hardcover in January 1986, followed by a paperback edition in November.
Contents
The collection includes eight stories, four of which take place in Varley's
Eight Worlds
The Eight Worlds are the fictional setting of a series of science fiction novels and short stories by John Varley, in which the Solar System has been colonized by human refugees fleeing an alien invasion of the Earth. Earth and Jupiter are off-lim ...
future history.
* "The Pusher", originally published in ''
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'', 1981
* "Blue Champagne", originally published in ''New Voices 4'', 1981
* "Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo", first published in this collection
* "Options", originally published in ''
Universe 9
''Universe 9'' is an anthology of original science fiction short stories edited by Terry Carr, the ninth volume in the seventeen-volume Universe (anthology series), Universe anthology series. It was first published in hardcover by Doubleday (publi ...
'', 1979
* "Lollipop and the Tar Baby", originally published in ''
Orbit 19'', 1977, previously appeared in Varley's 1980 collection ''
The Barbie Murders
The Barbie Murders is a science fiction short story by John Varley. It was first published in '' Asimov's Science Fiction'' in January/February 1978, and subsequently reprinted as the title story of Varley's 1980 collection of the same name, w ...
''
* "The Manhattan Phone Book (Abridged)", originally published at
Westercon
Westercon (occasionally WesterCon; long version West Coast Science Fantasy Conference) is a regional science fiction and fantasy convention founded in September 1948 by Walter J. Daugherty of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society. The original ...
37, 1984
* "The Unprocessed Word", first published in this collection
* "
Press Enter■", originally published in ''
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine'', 1984
Awards
''Blue Champagne'' won the 1987
Locus Award for Best Collection.
References
External links
*{{isfdb title, id=27487, title=Blue Champagne
Eight Worlds series
1980 short story collections