The Persistence of Vision (collection)

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

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 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.