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BLUE CHAMPAGNE.
Niles, Illinois: Dark Harvest, 1986. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 75 special "publisher's copies" with colophon marked "P/C" in place of limitation number, signed by Varley and artist Todd Cameron Hamilton. Collects eight stories. Includes "Press Enter," winner of the 1985 Hugo and 1984 Nebula awards for best novella, and "The Pusher," winner of the 1982 Hugo award for best short story. Two other stories in this volume, "Options" was a Hugo and Nebula award nominee and the title story "Blue Champagne" was a Hugo award nominee.
GOOD-BYE, ROBINSON CRUSOE AND OTHER STORIES.
[Burton, Michigan]: Subterranean Press, 2013. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 1000 numbered copies signed by Varley. This is copy number 39. Collects eleven stories.
MILLENNIUM.
New York: Berkley Books, [1983]. Octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback format. Clever time travel novel (1984 Hugo nominee) based on the author's story "Air Raid" (Nebula nominee 1977, Hugo nominee 1978). "Time travellers from a devastated future are in search of new blood to rebuild their society. They snatch present-day folk away from our world when the latter are about to meet with accidental death - the point being to prevent time paradoxes: only the doomed may be saved." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 237. Made in a film in 1989 from a screenplay by Varley, with Cheryl Ladd and Kris Kristofferson. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1169].
MILLENNIUM.
New York: Berkley Books, [1983]. Octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback format. Clever time travel novel (1984 Hugo nominee) based on the author's story "Air Raid" (Nebula nominee 1977, Hugo nominee 1978). "Time travellers from a devastated future are in search of new blood to rebuild their society. They snatch present-day folk away from our world when the latter are about to meet with accidental death - the point being to prevent time paradoxes: only the doomed may be saved." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 237. Made in a film in 1989 from a screenplay by Varley, with Cheryl Ladd and Kris Kristofferson. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1169].
MILLENNIUM.
New York: Berkley Books, [1983]. Octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback format. Clever time travel novel (1984 Hugo nominee) based on the author's story "Air Raid" (Nebula nominee 1977, Hugo nominee 1978). "Time travellers from a devastated future are in search of new blood to rebuild their society. They snatch present-day folk away from our world when the latter are about to meet with accidental death - the point being to prevent time paradoxes: only the doomed may be saved." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 237. Made in a film in 1989 from a screenplay by Varley, with Cheryl Ladd and Kris Kristofferson. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1169].
THE OPHIUCHI HOTLINE.
New York: The Dial Press/James Wade, 1977. Octavo, boards. First edition. "Contact with aliens at first brings new opportunities, but then come the Invaders, determined to take over the solar system and expel humankind. What future can there be for displaced persons in the galactic civilization?" - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1170. The author's first book. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1170. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 84. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1608-12].
THE OPHIUCHI HOTLINE.
New York: The Dial Press/James Wade, 1977. Octavo, boards. First edition. "Contact with aliens at first brings new opportunities, but then come the Invaders, determined to take over the solar system and expel humankind. What future can there be for displaced persons in the galactic civilization?" - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1170. The author's first book. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1170. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 84. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1608-12].
THE PERSISTENCE OF VISION.
New York: The Dial Press / James Wade, [1978]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects nine stories. The title story, a novella won both the Hugo and Nebula awards, 1979. Also the story "Air Raid", a Hugo and Nebula award nominee, is the basis for the novel Millennium. The stories "Retrograde Summer", "Phantom of Kansas", and "In the Hall of the Martian Kings" are all Hugo award nominees. "Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance" was a Nebula nominee. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1171].
THE PERSISTENCE OF VISION.
New York: The Dial Press / James Wade, [1978]. Octavo, boards. First edition. "The sentimental title story concerns a colony of blind folk who develop amazing powers. Most of the rest are tales set in a bioengineered, sexually ambiguous space-faring human society of the not-too-distant future. Fast and superbly inventive, they are carried off with astonishing aplomb. Varley became the most fashionable author in American magazine SF during the late 1970s (just as James Tiptree, Jr. had been number one in the early 1970s), and it was the stories reprinted in this book which brought him the acclaim." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), pp. 277-8. The title novella won both the 1979 Hugo Award and the 1979 Nebula Award. "The first of Varley's short story collections ... Varley almost always deals in extremes, and the fervent inventiveness of his early stories made them very striking." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1171. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1171].
THE PERSISTENCE OF VISION.
New York: The Dial Press / James Wade, [1978]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects nine stories. The title story, a novella won both the Hugo and Nebula awards, 1979. Also the story "Air Raid", a Hugo and Nebula award nominee, is the basis for the novel Millennium. The stories "Retrograde Summer", "Phantom of Kansas", and "In the Hall of the Martian Kings" are all Hugo award nominees. "Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance" was a Nebula nominee. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1171].
STEEL BEACH.
New York: An Ace / Putnam Book Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1992]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Takes place in author's "Eight Worlds" universe in which humanity has fled invading aliens and the Earth is off limits as all life has been destroyed there. 1993 Hugo Nominee. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1172. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009].
A VOICE IN THE NIGHT.
[Burton, Michigan]: Subterranean Press, 2018. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 1000 numbered copies signed by McDevitt. This is copy number 29. Collects twenty-four stories.
WIZARD.
New York: Published by Berkley Publishing Corporation Distributed by G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1980]. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance copy (uncorrected proof) of the first edition. Letter from the publisher's senior editor to author Michael Bishop soliciting a favorable comment laid in. Second book of the Gaean trilogy. 1981 Hugo nominee. "Cirocco Jones, the spaceship captain from Varley's previous novel TITAN is recruited by the living world Gaia as a sort of internal policeman, wandering around her huge body as the representative of the aging mind" - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 424. [Reference: See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1173].