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The Persistence of Vision

John Varley

First published March 1978
Type Short Fiction
Length Novella

Synopsis

In 1990s buffeted with crises, the narrator lacking a meaning of life finds a happy community of deaf-blinds.

Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
1979 Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award Best International Long Fiction Nominee/Finalist
1979 Hugo Award Best Novella Winner
1979 Locus Poll Award Best Novella Winner
1979 Nebula Award Novella Winner
2012 Locus Online 20th Century Novella Nominee/Finalist

Publications (51)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
March 1978 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1978 Mercury Press, Inc. MAGAZINE 6
July 1978 The Persistence of Vision The Dial Press/James Wade / SFBC Collection 227
July 1978 The Persistence of Vision The Dial Press/James Wade Collection 263
September 1978 In the Hall of the Martian Kings Sidgwick & Jackson Collection 263
October 1978 In the Hall of the Martian Kings Orbit / Futura Collection 263
May 1979 The 1979 Annual World's Best SF DAW Books Anthology 133
May 1979 The 1979 Annual World's Best SF DAW Books / New American Library of Canada Anthology 133
August 1979 Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Eighth Annual Collection E. P. Dutton Anthology 1
August 1979 The Persistence of Vision Dell Collection 263
August 1979 The Persistence of Vision Dell Collection 263
September 1979 The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #1 Del Rey / Ballantine Anthology 1
September 1979 The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #1 Del Rey / Ballantine Anthology 1
August 1980 Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Eighth Annual Collection Dell Anthology 34
August 1980 Nebula Winners Fourteen Harper & Row Anthology 3
August 1980 Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Eighth Annual Collection Dell Anthology 34
October 1980 Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Eighth Annual Collection Dell Anthology 34
March 1981 Quantum Special 2 Sidgwick & Jackson Omnibus 263
April 1981 Nebula Winners Fourteen W. H. Allen Anthology 3
March 1982 Nebula Winners Fourteen Star Anthology 3
July 1982 Nebula Winners Fourteen Bantam Books Anthology 1
September 1983 Cults!: An Anthology of Secret Societies, Sects, and the Supernatural Beaufort Books Anthology 255
November 1984 The Persistence of Vision Berkley Books Collection 241
December 1984 Wollheim's World's Best SF: Series Eight DAW Books Anthology 133
April 1985 The Hugo Winners: Volume 4 Doubleday Anthology 459
October 1986 The Hugo Winners, Volume 4: 1976-1979 Doubleday / SFBC Anthology 405
June 1987 The Dark Void Severn House Anthology 137
April 1988 The Persistence of Vision Ace Books Collection 241
April 1989 The Best of the Nebulas Tor Anthology 495
April 1989 The Best of the Nebulas Tor Anthology 495
November 1990 The Best of the Nebulas Robert Hale Anthology 475
January 1991 Nanoware Time / The Persistence of Vision Tor Anthology 113
July 1992 The Mammoth Book of Fantastic Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1970s Carroll & Graf Anthology 398
July 1992 The Mammoth Book of Fantastic Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1970s Robinson Anthology 398
1994 Nebula Award-Winning Novellas Barnes & Noble Books Anthology 167
1996 Nebula Award-Winning Novellas Barnes & Noble Books Anthology 167
July 2004 The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy Eos / HarperCollins Anthology 91
July 2004 The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Fantasy and Science Fiction Voyager / HarperCollins (Australia) Anthology 101
September 2004 The John Varley Reader Ace Books Collection 228
October 2004 The John Varley Reader Ace Books / SFBC Collection 228
July 2005 The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Fantasy and Science Fiction Voyager / HarperCollins (Australia) Anthology
September 2008 The Persistence of Vision Audible Studios Collection |10
December 2008 Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press Anthology 774
June 2011 Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction Wildside Press Anthology |240
December 2011 Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction Wildside Press Anthology |240
2015 Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press Anthology 482
September 2020 The John Varley Reader Open Road Integrated Media Collection |9
December 2021 The John Varley Reader Blackstone Publishing Collection |9
March 2022 The John Varley Reader Blackstone Publishing Collection |9
March 2022 The John Varley Reader Blackstone Publishing Collection |9
March 2022 The John Varley Reader Blackstone Publishing Collection |9
December 2024 Audiobook Collection MotionAudiobooks Omnibus |16.09