The Persistence of Vision (collection)
{{Short description|Collection of short stories by John Varley}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox book |
| name = The Persistence of Vision
| title_orig =
| translator =
| image = The Persistence of Vision (collection).jpg
| caption = First edition
| author = John Varley
| illustrator =
| cover_artist = Jim Burns
| country = United States
| language = English
| series =
| genre = Science fiction
| publisher = The Dial Press/James Wade
| release_date = 1978
| english_release_date =
| media_type = Print
| pages = 316 pp
| isbn = 0-8037-6866-4
| dewey= 813/.5/4
| congress= PZ4.V299 Pe PS3572.A724
| oclc= 3844742
| preceded_by =
| followed_by =
}}
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.[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?32052 The Persistence of Vision at The Internet Speculative Fiction Database]
Contents
The collection includes nine stories:Varley, John (1978). The Persistence of Vision. Dell Publishing. {{ISBN|0-440-17311-6}} (1979 re-print)
- "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.[http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Locus1979.html The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1979 Locus Awards] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150413164917/http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Locus1979.html |date=2015-04-13 }}
The title story won the 1978 Nebula Award,[http://www.sfwa.org/awards/archive/pastwin.htm#1978 Past Winners of SFWA(R) Nebula Awards(R): 1978] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605082209/http://www.sfwa.org/awards/archive/pastwin.htm#1978 |date=2011-06-05 }} the 1979 Hugo Award,[http://www.worldcon.org/hy.html#79 The Hugo Award (By Year): 1979] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110123160133/http://www.worldcon.org/hy.html#79 |date=2011-01-23 }} and the 1979 Locus Award in the novella category.
References
Further reading
- {{Cite web |last=Nicoll |first=James |author-link=James Nicoll |date=2015-07-05 |title=The tragedy of John Varley |url=https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/the-tragedy-of-john-varley |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240125022058/https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/the-tragedy-of-john-varley |archive-date=2024-01-25 |access-date=2024-06-29 |website=James Nicoll Reviews}}
External links
- {{ISFDB title|id=32052|title=The Persistence of Vision}}
{{John Varley (author)}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Persistence of Vision}}