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From the moment John Varley burst onto the scene in 1974, his short fiction was like nothing anyone else was writing. His stories won every award the science fiction field had to offer, many times over. His first collection, The Persistence of Vision , published in 1978, was the most... read more
First Sentence
THIS IS THE story of how I went to the Nearside and found old Lester and maybe grew up a little.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Picnic on Nearside
2. Overdrawn at Memory Bank
3. In the Hall of the Martian Kings
4. Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance
5. The Barbie Murders
6. The Phantom of Kansas
7. Beatnik Bayou
8. Air Raid
9. The Persistence of Vision
10. PRESS ENTER <>
11. The Pusher
12. Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo
13. Options
14. Just Another Perfect Day
15. In Fading Suns and Dying Moons
16. The Flying Dutchman
17. Good Intentions
18. The Bellman
Afterword
Authors & Contributors
- John Varley (Author)
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