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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... hundred cities were dug and hollowed out beneath the rubble . " Give me five hundred sanitation experts , eight hundred traffic managers , two hundred air - conditioning experts , one hundred city managers , one thousand communication ...
... hundred cities were dug and hollowed out beneath the rubble . " Give me five hundred sanitation experts , eight hundred traffic managers , two hundred air - conditioning experts , one hundred city managers , one thousand communication ...
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... hundred and thirty - five thousand five hundred and fourth . . . offhand . " " But it's the big one . " " They 5,271,009 89.
... hundred and thirty - five thousand five hundred and fourth . . . offhand . " " But it's the big one . " " They 5,271,009 89.
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... hundreds . But no mind is big enough to figure fifty - two hundred - no mind except Strapp's . " " We've got computers . " " And they're perfect when only cards are involved . But when you have to figure fifty - two hundred cardplayers ...
... hundreds . But no mind is big enough to figure fifty - two hundred - no mind except Strapp's . " " We've got computers . " " And they're perfect when only cards are involved . But when you have to figure fifty - two hundred cardplayers ...
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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