(#141501) THE PERSISTENCE OF VISION. John Varley.

THE PERSISTENCE OF VISION. New York: The Dial Press / James Wade, [1978]. Octavo, boards. First edition. "The sentimental title story concerns a colony of blind folk who develop amazing powers. Most of the rest are tales set in a bioengineered, sexually ambiguous space-faring human society of the not-too-distant future. Fast and superbly inventive, they are carried off with astonishing aplomb. Varley became the most fashionable author in American magazine SF during the late 1970s (just as James Tiptree, Jr. had been number one in the early 1970s), and it was the stories reprinted in this book which brought him the acclaim." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), pp. 277-8. The title novella won both the 1979 Hugo Award and the 1979 Nebula Award. "The first of Varley's short story collections ... Varley almost always deals in extremes, and the fervent inventiveness of his early stories made them very striking." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1171. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1171. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#141501).

Price: $150.00

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