Red Thunder (novel)

Red Thunder
First edition cover
Cover art by Bob Warner
AuthorJohn Varley
GenreScience fiction
PublisherAce Books
Publication date
April 4, 2006
ISBN0-441-01364-3

Red Thunder is a 2003 science fiction novel by American writer John Varley.[1][2][3] The novel is an homage to the juvenile science fiction novels written by Robert A. Heinlein.[citation needed]

In 2004, Red Thunder won the Endeavour Award[4] and was nominated for the Campbell Award.[5]

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. ^ "RED THUNDER by John Varley". Publishers Weekly. March 31, 2003. Retrieved October 13, 2024.
  2. ^ "Red Thunder". Kirkus Reviews. February 15, 2006. Retrieved October 12, 2024.
  3. ^ "Red Thunder". Booklist. March 15, 2003. Retrieved October 12, 2024.
  4. ^ "Endeavor Award history".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ "2004 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved September 26, 2009.