The Persistence of Vision
- The Persistence of Vision
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author = John Varley
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Science fiction collection
publisher = The Dial Press/James Wade
release_date = 1978
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media_type = Print
pages = 316 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-8037-6866-4
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"The Persistence of Vision" is an award-winning 1978 anthology of science fiction stories by John Varley.
The anthology was also published in the U.K. 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 anthology 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.
* "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.
* "The Persistence of Vision," originally published in "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction", March 1978.
Awards
The anthology 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 ] ]
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] ] , the 1979 Hugo Award [ [http://www.worldcon.org/hy.html#79 The Hugo Award (By Year): 1979] ] , and the 1979 Locus Award [ [http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Locus1979.html The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1979 Locus Awards ] ] in the novella categories.
References
External links
* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?32052 "The Persistence of Vision" at The Internet Speculative Fiction Database]
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