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 113
... Addyer are identical . Where we part company is in the fact that Addyer was a statistician . Can you spare cost of one cup coffee , honorable miss ? For blessed charitability ? I am beholden . On Monday , Addyer rushed into his chief's ...
... Addyer are identical . Where we part company is in the fact that Addyer was a statistician . Can you spare cost of one cup coffee , honorable miss ? For blessed charitability ? I am beholden . On Monday , Addyer rushed into his chief's ...
Page 114
... Addyer requisitioned the comptometer and file and ran a test check on Washington , D.C. To his dismay , he discov- ered that the population of the former capital was down 0.0029 per cent . This was distressing , and Addyer went home to ...
... Addyer requisitioned the comptometer and file and ran a test check on Washington , D.C. To his dismay , he discov- ered that the population of the former capital was down 0.0029 per cent . This was distressing , and Addyer went home to ...
Page 119
... Addyer . At that moment a pair of hands seized him and lifted him from the ground . Addyer's heart constricted . He had time for one convul- sive spasm before something vague was pressed against his face . As he lost consciousness his ...
... Addyer . At that moment a pair of hands seized him and lifted him from the ground . Addyer's heart constricted . He had time for one convul- sive spasm before something vague was pressed against his face . As he lost consciousness his ...
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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