John Varley

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  • Bibliography:
    25 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1977
  • Latest Book:
    September 2020
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Full Series List in Order

Eight Worlds

1 - Steel Beach (Jul-1992)
2 - The Ophiuchi Hotline (Apr-1977)
3 - The Golden Globe (Oct-1998)
4 - Irontown Blues (Sep-2018)

Gaea

1 - Titan (Mar-1979)
2 - Wizard (Mar-1979)
3 - Demon (May-1984)

Martian Naval Corps

Rolling Thunder (Mar-2008)

Thunder and Lightning

1 - Red Thunder (Apr-2003)
2 - Red Lightning (Feb-2006)
3 - Dark Lightning (Aug-2014)

Book List in Order: 25 titles

  • The Ophiuchi Hotline

    Eight Worlds - 2

    THE BRILLIANT NOVEL THAT LAUNCHED THE VARLEY PHENOMENONThe invaders came in 2050…They did not kill anyone outright. they said they came on behalf of the intelligent species of Earth -- dolphins and whales. The Invaders quietly destroyed every evide...

  • The Persistence of Vision

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    THE PERSISTENCE OF VISION presents the most striking of Varley's work--the stories that created what critic Spider Robinson called "the most thorough blitzkrieg since the Beatles' first U.S. tour, and a similarly pleasant one." Whether exploring ...

  • Titan

    Gaea - 1

    Here is TITAN: the alien that is, itself, a world. Here is TITAN: the heralded new novel by SF's most spectacular new talent, the Hugo and Nebula Award winner who has been compared by Isaac Asimov with the early Heinlein. Here is TITAN: the story o...

  • Wizard

    Gaea - 2

    WIZARD returns us to the awesome interior of Gaea, the world-sized alien first encountered in Varley's monumental bestseller, TITAN. Gaea's discoverer, Cirocco "Rocky" Jones, is now herself an inhabitant, plotting wizardry in the remote highlands be...

  • The Barbie Murders

  • Blue Champagne

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    A collection of science fiction stories from "the best writer in America" (Tom Clancy) -- Hugo and Nebula award-winning author John Varley.John Varley's unique blend of startling technology and genuinely human characters has won him every major scien...

  • Demon

    Gaea - 3

    The epic conclusion to Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author John Varley's Gaean Trilogy...Gaea, the world and goddess, has gone insane. She has trapped humans in her mind. She has transformed her love of old movies into monstrous realities. She is Ma...

  • Press Enter

    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. In a sense it is the direct descendant of Roger Zelazn...

  • Picnic On Nearside

    A collection of short stories from the Hugo and Nebula award-winning author who "has the imagination of six ordinary science fiction writers" (George R.R. Martin) -- John Varley.Picnic on Nearside includes nine astonishing stories from an author whos...



  • Millennium

    To Louise Baltimore and her fellow citizens of Earth in the 99th century, life offers bleak prospects. The world is on its deathbed, dying from the accumulated poisons of one too many wars. Suicide is common, since convincing reasons for hanging arou...

  • The Star Pit

  • Hawksbill Station

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  • Steel Beach

    Eight Worlds - 1

    Fleeing Earth after an alien invasion, the human race stands on the threshold of evolution, like a fish cast on artificial shores. Their new home is Luna, a moon colony blessed with creature comforts, prolonged lifespans, digital memories, and instan...

  • Superheroes

    A science fiction superhero anthology features Alan Dean Foster's "Earth Spirit," Roger Zelazny's "Hugh Glass," Lawrence Watt-Evans's "Captain Cosmos," Michael A. Stackpole's "Revenant," and John Varley's "Bolshoiman." Reprint....

  • The Golden Globe

    Eight Worlds - 3

    All the universe is a stage...and Sparky Valentine is its itinerant thespian. He makes his way from planet to planet as part of a motley theater troupe, bringing Shakespeare--a version of it anyway--to the outer reaches of Earth's solar system. Spark...

  • Red Thunder

    Thunder and Lightning - 1

    The loss of the Mars-bound Ares Seven ship was the final blow to the U.S. space program. Everyone's accepted that the Chinese will be the first to reach the Red Planet. Well, almost everyone. In a deserted Daytona warehouse, seven suburban misf...

  • The John Varley Reader

    A landmark collection from the master of science fiction whose short stories “are quite literally unforgettable” (William Gibson).   These eighteen stories from the acclaimed author of the Gaea Trilogy, The Ophiuchi Hotline, and many other i...

  • Mammoth

    A “rollicking, bittersweet tale of time travel and ecology” from the Nebula and Hugo Award"winning author of the Gaea Trilogy (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   “H. G. Wells meets Jurassic Park” in this novel about a multibillionai...

  • Red Lightning

    Thunder and Lightning - 2

    The son of one of the first men to fly to Mars and back, Ray Garcia-Strickland is now a disgruntled Martian, tired of the Red Planet's overdevelopment and the gravity-dependent tourist Earthies. But that doesn't stop him from fearing the worst when E...



  • Rolling Thunder

    Martian Naval Corps

    Lieutenant Patricia Kelly Elizabeth Podkayne Strickland-Garcia-Redmond -- otherwise known as Podkayne -- is the third generation of her family to set foot on Mars, and she has a planet-sized chip on her shoulder. Her grandfather Manny was one of the ...

  • Slow Apocalypse

    Despite wars with Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as 9/11, the United States’ dependence on foreign oil has kept the nation tied to the Middle East. A scientist has developed a cure for America’s addiction -- a slow-acting virus that feeds on petro...

  • Good-Bye Robinson Crusoe and Other Stories

    This stellar collection by John Varley contains eleven provocative, utterly distinctive stories and novellas. None of them are currently available in any other book. Some have been unavailable in any form for twenty-five years or more. The result is ...

  • Dark Lightning

    Thunder and Lightning - 3

    John Varley returns to his Thunder and Lightning series with a novel of how one man’s volatile genius could alter a starship’s epic plunge into a future where human survival is just a theory… On a voyage to New Earth, the starship Rolling Th...

  • Irontown Blues

    Eight Worlds - 4

    From a master of science fiction comes a brand-new noir novel set in the Eight Worlds universe, where a detective hunts for the biohackers who have created a dangerous new disease. Christopher Bach was a policeman in one of the largest Lunar citie...

  • The Thunder and Lightning Series

    Red Thunder, Red Lightning, and Rolling Thunder -- “action-packed, science-packed homages to Heinlein’s best work” -- now in one volume (Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing).   Enjoy all three novels in Hugo and Nebula Award"winning author John V...

Award-Winning Books by John Varley

Blue Champagne
1982 Locus Award -- Novella
1987 Locus Award -- Collection
The John Varley Reader
2005 Locus Award -- Collection
The Persistence of Vision
1979 Hugo Award -- Novella
1979 Locus Award -- Collection
1979 Locus Award -- Novella
1979 Nebula Award -- Novella
Titan
1980 Locus Award -- Science Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Varley has published 25 books.

John Varley does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Thunder and Lightning Series, was published in September 2020.

The first book by John Varley, The Ophiuchi Hotline, was published in April 1977.

Yes. John Varley has 4 series.
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