Red Thunder (novel)

Cover of the first edition, published by Ace Books. Art by Bob Warner.

Red Thunder is a 2003 science fiction novel by American writer John Varley. The novel is an homage to the juvenile science fiction novels written by Robert A. Heinlein.

In 2004, Red Thunder won the Endeavour Award[1] and was nominated for the Campbell Award.[2]

Varley has written three sequels, Red Lightning (2006), Rolling Thunder (2008) and Dark Lightning (2014). The events of the books in the series are set approximately twenty years apart. In an interview on the Republibot website in 2009 he mentioned that "Dark Lightning" would be the final book in the series.

  1. ^ Endeavor Award history
  2. ^ "2004 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-09-26.