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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... Stars My Destination . In the late 1950s , he wrote travel articles for Holiday magazine , and eventu- ally became their Senior Literary Editor , keeping the position until the magazine folded in the ... Stars My Destination The Demolished.
... Stars My Destination . In the late 1950s , he wrote travel articles for Holiday magazine , and eventu- ally became their Senior Literary Editor , keeping the position until the magazine folded in the ... Stars My Destination The Demolished.
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... Stars My Destination ) and , inter- mittently over the decades , a couple of dozen flamboyant and ex- traordinary short stories , stories that are like none ever written by anyone else , stories that leave the reader dizzy with ...
... Stars My Destination ) and , inter- mittently over the decades , a couple of dozen flamboyant and ex- traordinary short stories , stories that are like none ever written by anyone else , stories that leave the reader dizzy with ...
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... Stars My Destination , proved to be a fitting companion to The Demol- ished Man when it appeared in Galaxy in 1956. But he was spending most of his time overseas now , doing travel articles for Holiday mag- azine and such other slick ...
... Stars My Destination , proved to be a fitting companion to The Demol- ished Man when it appeared in Galaxy in 1956. But he was spending most of his time overseas now , doing travel articles for Holiday mag- azine and such other slick ...
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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