title: Blue Champagne (collection)
text: # 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.
  
  