THE PERSISTENCE OF VISION

by John Varley

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

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

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