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"Why?" "To keep the patients in, General Carpenter." "Keep 'em in? What d'you
mean? Are they trying to get out? They violent, or something?" "No, sir. Not
violent." "Dimmock, I don't like your attitude. You're acting damned sneaky and
evasive.
"Why?" "To keep the patients in, General Carpenter." "Keep 'em in? What d'you
mean? Are they trying to get out? They violent, or something?" "No, sir. Not
violent." "Dimmock, I don't like your attitude. You're acting damned sneaky and
evasive.
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It's all over the business." "I'm not in your business." "No?" He took a long drink,
put his glass down and glowered at the table like a kid trying to crack an algebra
problem. "Her name was Freyda. F-R-E-Y-D-A. Like Freya, Goddess of The
Roller ...
It's all over the business." "I'm not in your business." "No?" He took a long drink,
put his glass down and glowered at the table like a kid trying to crack an algebra
problem. "Her name was Freyda. F-R-E-Y-D-A. Like Freya, Goddess of The
Roller ...
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"Hiding what's stamped on its forehead." "No point to that, Wanda. You don't have
to see marks on a forehead to recognize an android. You don't have to see a
trademark on a car to know it's a car." "I don't mean it's trying to pass as a human.
"Hiding what's stamped on its forehead." "No point to that, Wanda. You don't have
to see marks on a forehead to recognize an android. You don't have to see a
trademark on a car to know it's a car." "I don't mean it's trying to pass as a human.
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Contents
DISAPPEARING ACT | 7 |
ADAM AND NO EVE | 24 |
STAR LIGHT STAR BRIGHT | 38 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Starburst |
| Author | Alfred Bester |
| Publisher | New American Library, 1958 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 160 pages |
| Subjects | › › Fiction / General Fiction / Science Fiction / General Science fiction, American |
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