Red Thunder by John Varley
reviewed by Peter D. Tillman
A bunch of likeable Florida teens get together and build a homemade spaceship, a couple decades from now, with the help of a cashiered NASA astronaut and his idiot-savant cousin, Jubal, who has discovered a simple vacuum-energy shunt. With free, unlimited energy, just about anything can fly, even a spaceship made of used railroad tank-cars...

The Golden Globe by John Varley
reviewed by Thomas Myer
This novel is a picaresque tale in the finest tradition of that venerable art form. You have your basic scoundrel Sparky Valentine, former child star of the 23rd-century, who cons a woman who happens to have connections with the Charonese mafia. This combination in the hands of John Varley results in slick prose, great pacing, and well-drawn characters.

The Golden Globe by John Varley
reviewed by Paul J. McAuley
Guest Reviewer Paul J. McAuley found it to be a relaxed, playful, virtuoso performance, packed with incidents and wonders as casually deployed as scarves from a magician's hat. The novel vividly evokes a Solar System where all history is, of necessity, as postmodern and hyperreal as Disneyland. It never falters as the narrative moves from comedy to tragedy.