Title: The Persistence of Vision

Title: The Persistence of Vision Title Record # 32052
Author: John Varley
Date: 1978-07-00
Type: COLLECTION
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Note: 9 stories, 6 of them belonging to the Eight Worlds universe. UK edition retitled In the Hall of the Martian Kings.

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Translations

Year	Title
1978	In the Hall of the Martian Kings

Year	Language	Title
1978^ⓘTranslated by Annemarie Kindt and Roderick van Rhyn	Dutch	Retrograde zomer
1979^ⓘTranslated by Michel Deutsch	French	Dans le palais des rois martiens
1979^ⓘTranslated by Michel Deutsch Second half of the original collection.	French	Persistance de la vision
1981^ⓘ First part of the collection The Persistence of Vision Translated by Tony Westermayr and Rose Aichele	German	Voraussichten
1981^ⓘ Second part of the collection The Persistence of Vision Translated by Tony Westermayr, Birgit Reß-Bohusch and Hans Joachim Alpers	German	Mehr Voraussichten
1981^ⓘ Third part of the collection The Persistence of Vision Translated by Keto von Waberer, Tony Westermayr and Rose Aichele	German	Noch mehr Voraussichten
1984^ⓘContains the first five stories from Varley's collection The Persistence of Vision. Translated by Domingo Santos and Jesús Gómez García	Spanish	En el salón de los reyes marcianos
1984^ⓘThe different ediitions contain either four or six stories in Varley's collection The Persistence of Vision. Translated by Domingo Santos.	Spanish	La persistencia de la visión

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
1	1979 Locus	Best Single Author Collection
Win	1980 Apollo	Prix Apollo

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The Persistence of Vision	1978-07-00	John Varley	The Dial Press/James Wade / SFBC	3441	$3.50^?$: US dollar	xiv+ 272	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Jim Burns
The Persistence of Vision	1978-07-00	John Varley	The Dial Press/James Wade (Quantum Science Fiction #4)	0-8037-6866-4	$9.95^?$: US dollar	xv+ 316	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Jim Burns
The Persistence of Vision	1979-08-00	John Varley	Dell (Quantum Science Fiction #4)	0-440-17311-6	$2.25^?$: US dollar	xv+ 316	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Jim Burns
The Persistence of Vision	1979-08-00	John Varley	Dell (Quantum Science Fiction #4)	0-440-17311-6	C$2.25^?C$: Canadian dollar	xv+ 316	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Jim Burns
The Persistence of Vision	1984-11-00	John Varley	Berkley Books	0-425-07300-9	$2.95^?$: US dollar	xv+ 288	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	James Warhola
The Persistence of Vision	1988-04-00	John Varley	Ace Books	0-441-66221-8	$3.95^?$: US dollar	xv+ 288	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	James Warhola

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Reviews

Review by Charles N. Brown (1978) in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 1978
Review by George R. R. Martin (1978) in Science Fiction Review, September-October 1978
Review by Spider Robinson (1978) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1978
Review by Spider Robinson (1978) in Destinies, November-December 1978 , reprinted in:
Destinies, November-December 1978 (1978)
Review by Algis Budrys (1978) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1978
Review by Phil Stephensen-Payne [as by Philip Stephensen-Payne] (1978) in Paperback Parlour, December 1978
Review by Paul Walker (1979) in Galaxy, March-April 1979
Review by Bob Mecoy (1979) in Future Life, March 1979
Review [French] by Denis Guiot (1979) in Fiction, #304
Review [French] by Denis Guiot (1979) in Fiction, #304
Review by Richard A. Lupoff [as by Richard Lupoff] (1979) in Starship, Fall 1979
Review by Tom Staicar (1980) in Fantastic, January 1980
Review [Spanish] by Eugenio Sánchez Arrate (2001) in Las 100 mejores novelas de ciencia ficción del siglo XX