Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred BesterA collection of science fiction stories, most of them reprints from the 1950s. In Hobson's Choice, tourists from the future visit our age to experience a nuclear war, while Adam and No Eve is on the world's last surviving male. |
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... Herod . Walter Herod , attorney - at - law . " He stepped to the desk where the contents of the doomed man's pockets were spread , picked up a wallet and displayed it . " Your name is Warbeck . Marion Perkin Warbeck . Right ? " The ...
... Herod . Walter Herod , attorney - at - law . " He stepped to the desk where the contents of the doomed man's pockets were spread , picked up a wallet and displayed it . " Your name is Warbeck . Marion Perkin Warbeck . Right ? " The ...
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... Herod snapped . The thin young man reached out and grasped Warbeck's wrist with an iron clasp . " Oh stop it , " the doomed man said impatiently . " This is a silly mistake . " " I'll tell you whether it's a mistake and I'll tell you if ...
... Herod snapped . The thin young man reached out and grasped Warbeck's wrist with an iron clasp . " Oh stop it , " the doomed man said impatiently . " This is a silly mistake . " " I'll tell you whether it's a mistake and I'll tell you if ...
Page 52
... Herod imagined Joe had found a hot lead . This encouraged them . The second day they realized no heat could keep Joe on the fire for forty - eight hours . This depressed them . On the third day they had to face the truth . " He's dead ...
... Herod imagined Joe had found a hot lead . This encouraged them . The second day they realized no heat could keep Joe on the fire for forty - eight hours . This depressed them . On the third day they had to face the truth . " He's dead ...
Contents
They Dont Make Life Like They Used To | 191 |
Will You Wait? | 225 |
Adam and No Eve | 273 |
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Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester Alfred Bester,Roger Zelazny Limited preview - 1997 |
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