Awards

2005 Locus Award

Collection - The John Varley Reader

2004 Asimov's Science Fiction's Readers' Award

Novelette - "The Bellman"

2004 Endeavour Award / Oregon SFConventions, Inc.

Novel - Red Thunder

2004 Prix du Cafard cosmique

Best SF Novel - Le systEme Valentine (The Golden Globe)

1999 Prometheus Award

Novel - The Golden Globe

1992 Seiun Award

Foreign Short Story - "Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo"

1991 Hayakawa's SF Magazine Reader's Award

Foreign Short Story - "Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo"

1987 Locus Award

Collection - Blue Champagne

1987 Seiun Award

Foreign Short Fiction - "Press Enter ■"

1985 Hugo Award

Novella - "Press Enter ■"

1985 Nebula Award

Novella - "Press Enter ■"

1985 Locus Award

Novella - "Press Enter ■"

1985 Science Fiction Chronicle Poll

Novella - "Press Enter ■"

1982 Hugo Award

Short Story - "The Pusher"

1982 Locus Award

Novella - "Blue Champagne"

Short Story - "The Pusher"
 

1982 Science Fiction Chronicle Poll

Short Story - "The Pusher"

1981 Locus Award

Single Author Collection - The Barbie Murders

1980 Analog Analytical Laboratory

Serial - "Titan"

1980 Locus Award

SF Novel - Titan

1980 Prix Apollo

Single Author Collection - The Persistence of Vision

1979 Hugo Award

Novella - "The Persistence of Vision"

1979 Locus Award

Novella - "The Persistence of Vision"

Novelette - "The Barbie Murders"

Single Author Collection - The Persistence of Vision

1978 Jupiter Award

Novella - "In the Hall of the Martian Kings"

1976 Special Locus Award - 4 Novelettes in Top 10

"Bagatelle"

"Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance"

"Overdrawn at the Memory Bank"

"The Phantom of Kansas"

Near Awards

1993 Hugo Nominee

    Best Novel - Steel Beach

1984 Hugo Nominee

    Best Novel - Millennium
 

1982 Nebula Nominee

    Best Short Story - "The Pusher"
 

1982 Hugo Nominee

    Best Novella - "Blue Champagne"
 

1981 Hugo Nominee

    Best Novelette - "Beatnik Bayou"
 

1981 Nebula Nominee

    Best Novelette - "Beatnik Bayou"
 

1981 Hugo Nominee

    Best Novel - Wizard
 

1980 Hugo Nominee

    Best Novelette - "Options"
 

1980 Nebula Nominee

    Best Novelette - "Options"
 

1980 Hugo Nominee

    Best Novel - Titan
 

1980 Nebula Nominee

    Best Novel - Titan
 

1979 Hugo Nominee

    Best Novelette - "The Barbie Murders"
 

1978 Hugo Nominee

    Best Short Story - "Air Raid"
 

1978 Nebula Nominee

    Best Short Story - "Air Raid"
 

1978 Hugo Nominee

    Best Novella - "In the Hall of the Martian Kings"
 

1977 Hugo Nominee

    Best Novelette - "The Phantom of Kansas"
 

1977 Hugo Nominee

    Best Novelette - "Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance"
 

1976 Nebula Nominee

    Best Novelette - "Retrograde Summer"