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Blue Champagne (collection)

Collection of short stories by John Varley

Blue Champagne

Author	John Varley
Cover artist	Todd Cameron Hamilton
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Dark Harvest, Berkley Books
Publication date	1980
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print
Pages	290 pp
ISBN	0-425-09336-0
OCLC	14639057
Dewey Decimal	813/.5/4
LC Class	PZ4.V299 Pe PS3572.A724

Blue Champagne is a 1986 collection of science fiction stories by American writer John Varley. It was published as a hardcover in January 1986, followed by a paperback edition in November.^[1]

Contents[edit]

The collection includes eight stories,^[2] four of which take place in Varley's Eight Worlds future history.^[3]

• "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, 1979
• "Lollipop and the Tar Baby", originally published in Orbit 19, 1977, previously appeared in Varley's 1980 collection The Barbie Murders
• "The Manhattan Phone Book (Abridged)", originally published at Westercon 37, 1984
• "The Unprocessed Word", first published in this collection
• "Press Enter■", originally published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 1984

Awards[edit]

Blue Champagne won the 1987 Locus Award for Best Collection.^[4]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Blue Champagne title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database