Blue Champagne (collection)
# Blue Champagne (collection)

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.

## Contents

The collection includes eight stories, four of which take place in Varley's Eight Worlds 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, 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

Blue Champagne won the 1987 Locus Award for Best Collection.

