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From: mcb@styx.UUCP (Michael C. Berch)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: What should be your FIRST sf book ???
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Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 01:05:16 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 16 01:05:16 1985
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Summary: Varley's "The Persistence of Vision"

I'd feel sort of an obligation to try to break the spaceship/time-travel
stereotype. To that end, how about John Varley's THE PERSISTENCE OF VISION. 
This is one of his best works -- perhaps the finest and most moving novella 
ever written. What's more, it is the title piece in a really first-class 
collection of SF novelettes and story stories.  All the stories are
very accessible to casual readers; you don't have to have a background
in SF cliches or history. 

Michael C. Berch
mcb@lll-tis-b.ARPA
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