Two days ago I was reading in my book of Locus-winning short stories, and I came across the first Story That Blew My Mind that I’ve read in a long while. It’s called Persistance of Vision and is by a guy I’d never read before, named John Varley.
The story was everything literature should be – beautiful, sad, thoughtful, the kind of thing you put down and then think about for the the rest of the night and then, from time to time, for the rest of your life. I was trying to figure out how to make it possible to share this with you guys; was considering scanning the fucking thing, OCRing it, and mailing copies to whoever wanted them.
Turns out, Clarion pal Cory Doctorow and I are on the same wavelength again: follow this link to Cory’s impression of PoV, and a link to a podcast reading of the story, which you should download and listen to for your own good, as well as the good of the nation.