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 153
... looked so adorable that he wanted to kiss her . Instead he punched her , very gently and very solemnly , and took her out to buy a wardrobe . When she showed herself to him in proper clothes , she looked so enchanting that he had to ...
... looked so adorable that he wanted to kiss her . Instead he punched her , very gently and very solemnly , and took her out to buy a wardrobe . When she showed herself to him in proper clothes , she looked so enchanting that he had to ...
Page 281
... looked up ! He had looked up at the hammock . He was lying curled in the cup of the crystal nose . The ship had risen high - perhaps almost to Roche's zone , to the limit of the Earth's gravitational attraction , but then without ...
... looked up ! He had looked up at the hammock . He was lying curled in the cup of the crystal nose . The ship had risen high - perhaps almost to Roche's zone , to the limit of the Earth's gravitational attraction , but then without ...
Page 344
... looked like an insurance office . Bold gold letters on the black windows read : NATIONAL STATISTICS . Jinny parked the car and said : " I still think you're crazy . " " Don't try to argue , " Granville answered . " We haven't come to an ...
... looked like an insurance office . Bold gold letters on the black windows read : NATIONAL STATISTICS . Jinny parked the car and said : " I still think you're crazy . " " Don't try to argue , " Granville answered . " We haven't come to an ...
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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