The Persistence of Vision (collection)

The Persistence of Vision

First edition
Author	John Varley
Cover artist	Jim Burns
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	The Dial Press/James Wade
Publication date	1978
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print
Pages	316 pp
ISBN	0-8037-6866-4
OCLC	3844742
Dewey Decimal	813/.5/4
LC Class	PZ4.V299 Pe PS3572.A724

The Persistence of Vision is a 1978 collection of science fiction stories by American writer John Varley.

The collection was also published in the United Kingdom under the title In the Hall of the Martian Kings. ^[1]

Contents

The collection includes nine stories: ^[2]

• "The Phantom of Kansas", originally published in Galaxy , February 1976.
• "Air Raid", originally published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine , Spring 1977. Varley later expanded this into the novel Millennium .
• "Retrograde Summer", originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , February 1975.
• "The Black Hole Passes", originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1975.
• "In the Hall of the Martian Kings", originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1977.
• "In the Bowl", originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1975.
• "Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance", originally published in Galaxy, July 1976.
• "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank", originally published in Galaxy, May 1976. Adapted into a 1984 television movie.
• "The Persistence of Vision", originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 1978.

Awards

The Persistence of Vision won the 1979 Locus Award for Best Single-Author Collection. ^[3]

The title story won the 1978 Nebula Award, ^[4] the 1979 Hugo Award, ^[5] and the 1979 Locus Award ^[3] in the novella category.

References

1. The Persistence of Vision at The Internet Speculative Fiction Database
2. Varley, John (1978). The Persistence of Vision. Dell Publishing. ISBN   0-440-17311-6 (1979 re-print)
3. The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1979 Locus Awards Archived 2015-04-13 at the Wayback Machine
4. Past Winners of SFWA(R) Nebula Awards(R): 1978 Archived 2011-06-05 at the Wayback Machine
5. The Hugo Award (By Year): 1979 Archived 2011-01-23 at the Wayback Machine

Further reading

• Nicoll, James (July 5, 2015). "The tragedy of John Varley". James Nicoll Reviews. Archived from the original on January 25, 2024. Retrieved June 29, 2024.

External links

• The Persistence of Vision title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database