Series
Thunder and Lightning
John Varley · 4 novels · 2003–2014
John Varley's Thunder and Lightning books follow the Broussard family across two generations as a backyard fusion-power breakthrough turns an eccentric Florida inventor's homemade spacecraft into the opening move of an independent human expansion to Mars and beyond. Red Thunder and Red Lightning follow the first generation's improvised trip to Mars; Rolling Thunder and Dark Lightning pick up decades later with their descendants.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Thunder and Lightning at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2000s3
- 2010s1
Shape
4 novels
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionspace explorationspacenear futureadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 75% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book4 of 4 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Dark Lightningdarkest · most intense
- Rolling Thunderbrightest
- Red Thundercalmest