John Varley, The Persistence of Vision tags: chicago, humor, science-fiction 2 likes Like Good luck to you both. I listened to Peter Ganim narrate the audio version produced by Audible Frontiers. The Persistence of Vision by John Varley 2,131 ratings, 4.14 average rating, 129 reviews Open Preview The Persistence of Vision Quotes Showing 1-2 of 2 I had thought Chicago was inevitable, like diarrhea. It will make you consider what kinds of wonderful abilities might be unmasked if you lost some of your “normal” abilities. The Persistence of Vision, which won both the Hugo and Nebula awards, will make you think. Perhaps Varley’s idea isn’t so far-fetched. It is true that some people who are blind or deaf have sensory abilities that seeing and hearing people don’t have, or at least never realized they have (e.g., blindsight, echolocation). We get a lot of information about someone’s internal state through visual and auditory cues and it’s hard to imagine that tactile methods could compensate for missing this input, but John Varley is suggesting that people who are born blind and deaf might develop these sorts of paranormal abilities when normal sensory input is lacking. Also, the idea that communication without the masks of fake facial expressions and deceptive body language could be more informative than the “normal” methods is appealing. Titan Mar-1979 / Science Fiction Gaea - 1 Here is TITAN: the alien that is, itself, a world. Wikiwand is the world's leading Wikipedia reader for web and mobile. It was included in the anthology of the same name and in The John Varley Reader.
tour, and a similarly pleasant one.' Whether exploring. 'The Persistence of Vision' is a short story by American writer John Varley. At first the drifter is fascinated by the ways they’ve developed to get around their “handicap,” but soon he learns that, in their community, he’s the one with the disability because he will never be able to understand their language - a language that is a lot deeper than mere spoken words could ever be.Īs someone who spends a lot of time thinking about perception, I was fascinated by a culture that can’t see or hear, and I enjoyed the parts of the story that dealt with how the group overcame their obstacles. THE PERSISTENCE OF VISION presents the most striking of Varleys work-the stories that created what critic Spider Robinson called 'the most thorough blitzkrieg since the Beatles first U.S. All of these adults are both deaf and blind, though their children are not.
This works well for him - he stays fed and sheltered and moves on when he’s ready for a change of scenery.īut when he comes across a walled-in settlement in the middle of Native American land, he finds that he can never fit in because the group who lives there are the adult descendents of women who contracted rubella while pregnant. Includes: The Phantom of Kansas Air Raid Retrograde Summer The Black Hole Passes In the Hall of the Martian Kings In the Bowl Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance Overdrawn at the Memory Bank The Persistence of Vision. 9 stories, 6 of them belonging to the Eight Worlds universe. UK edition retitled In the Hall of the Martian Kings. Winner, 1979 Locus Poll Award, Best Single Author Collection 1980 Prix Apollo. 12mo (7" x 4.25") Paperback reprint of 1978 The Dial Press/James Wade hardcover first edition. He has written several novels and numerous short stories.He has received both the Hugo and Nebula awards. 1979, ISBN: 0440173116, 316 pages, cover art by Jim Burns. He grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, moved to Port Arthur in 1957, and graduated from Nederland High School.
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