The Persistence of Vision (collection)
# The Persistence of Vision (collection)

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.

## Contents

The collection includes nine stories:

* "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.

The title story won the 1978 Nebula Award, the 1979 Hugo Award, and the 1979 Locus Award in the novella category.

