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The Persistence of Vision (collection)

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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
1978

Pages
  
316 pp

Author
  
John Varley

Followed by
  
The Barbie Murders

4.1/5
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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print

Originally published
  
1978

Preceded by
  
The Ophiuchi Hotline

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Publisher
  
The Dial Press/James Wade

Genres
  
Anthology, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction

Awards
  
Hugo Award for Best Novella

Similar
  
John Varley books, Eight Worlds books, Hugo Award for Best Novella winners

The Persistence of Vision is an award-winning 1978 collection of science fiction stories by John Varley.

Contents

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

Contents

The collection includes nine stories:

  • "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 1983 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.

    The title story won the 1978 Nebula Award, the 1979 Hugo Award, and the 1979 Locus Award in the novella categories.

    References

    The Persistence of Vision (collection) Wikipedia
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