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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Page 57
... crazy , man , crazy . Eclectic , by God , " he told a flabbergasted department - store president . " The Weltmann type , nicht wahr ? My ideal : Goethe . Tout le monde . God damn . " He spoke a spectacular tongue of mixed metaphors and ...
... crazy , man , crazy . Eclectic , by God , " he told a flabbergasted department - store president . " The Weltmann type , nicht wahr ? My ideal : Goethe . Tout le monde . God damn . " He spoke a spectacular tongue of mixed metaphors and ...
Page 110
... crazy man or a crazy machine long enough , I become crazy too . Reet ! But we know one truth . We know they were wrong . The new robot and Vandaleur know that because the new robot's started twitching too . Reet ! Here on cold Pollux ...
... crazy man or a crazy machine long enough , I become crazy too . Reet ! But we know one truth . We know they were wrong . The new robot and Vandaleur know that because the new robot's started twitching too . Reet ! Here on cold Pollux ...
Page 344
... crazy . " " Don't try to argue , " Granville answered . " We haven't come to an issue yet . That's why we're here . " Jinny shrugged . " There isn't any issue . " " It says here . Let's button it up before I go in and make a fool of ...
... crazy . " " Don't try to argue , " Granville answered . " We haven't come to an issue yet . That's why we're here . " Jinny shrugged . " There isn't any issue . " " It says here . Let's button it up before I go in and make a fool of ...
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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