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 151
... Alceste said . " You do the rest . " For the sake of his friend , Alceste paid Cr . 100 and expedited the formal application to the Master Files on Centaurus for the transcript of the complete psychological pattern of Sima Morgan ...
... Alceste said . " You do the rest . " For the sake of his friend , Alceste paid Cr . 100 and expedited the formal application to the Master Files on Centaurus for the transcript of the complete psychological pattern of Sima Morgan ...
Page 155
... Alceste looked at Fisher and shook his head wearily . " You don't know it , but you're making it easy for me , " he said . " The one thing in the world I'd like to do is take her out of here and never let Johnny see her . I'm so crazy ...
... Alceste looked at Fisher and shook his head wearily . " You don't know it , but you're making it easy for me , " he said . " The one thing in the world I'd like to do is take her out of here and never let Johnny see her . I'm so crazy ...
Page 156
... Alceste disposed of , and also the ambulance driver and intern . He and Sima departed in the ambulance , Alceste driving like a fury , Sima operating the siren like a banshee . They abandoned the ambulance in the downtown shopping dis ...
... Alceste disposed of , and also the ambulance driver and intern . He and Sima departed in the ambulance , Alceste driving like a fury , Sima operating the siren like a banshee . They abandoned the ambulance in the downtown shopping dis ...
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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