Short stories by John Varley
Listing 4 stories.
In an apocalyptic future, a team of undead time travel back to a doomed flight to rescue the passengers on board in a routine but elaborate mission. Getting the passengers through a portal is not easy without disrupting the fabric of space-time, but the passengers, healthy and alive, are the only hope to populate a desperate future world.
A town on the moon is disguised as a 20th century bayou in Louisiana. A young boy figures out how the world works as he participates in a peculiar method of repopulating the civilization.
When a man receives a mysterious automated phone call from his reticent neighbor, he finds himself in the midst of a technologically adept murder mystery.
In a futuristic lunar colony where stored memories and accessible clones ensure someone can resurrect themselves infinitely, Fox has been murdered three times. Determined to survive this time around, Fox must catch her murderer before they catch her.