The imaginary future of Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo appears in at least one other of Varley's works, the novelette "Blue Champagne" (1981). In this story Megan Galloway is also a character. She is paralyzed from the neck down but moves with the aid of an elaborate golden exoskeleton. In Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo, recent medical advances have given her back much of her natural mobility, although she uses a cane to help her walk.