The Persistence of Vision (collection)

The Persistence of Vision is an award-winning 1978 collection of science fiction stories by 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 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.^[3]

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

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. 1 2 The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1979 Locus Awards
4. ↑ Past Winners of SFWA(R) Nebula Awards(R): 1978
5. ↑ The Hugo Award (By Year): 1979

External links

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