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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... Bellanby shook his head . " Too farfetched . " " I've worked it out empirically , " Migg continued . " It's something like this . The future is a choice of mutually exclusively possibilities , one or another of which must be realized in ...
... Bellanby shook his head . " Too farfetched . " " I've worked it out empirically , " Migg continued . " It's something like this . The future is a choice of mutually exclusively possibilities , one or another of which must be realized in ...
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... Bellanby nodded , smiling . " It's as I've always said , Migg . Every man nurses the secret belief that were he God he could do the job much better . We're just learning how difficult it is . " " Not God , " Hrrdnikkisch said , " but ...
... Bellanby nodded , smiling . " It's as I've always said , Migg . Every man nurses the secret belief that were he God he could do the job much better . We're just learning how difficult it is . " " Not God , " Hrrdnikkisch said , " but ...
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... Bellanby inquired . " What part do you play ? " " Now ? None , " Migg snarled . " I have no charm , gentlemen . I come later . When he outgrows his respect for you , he'll begin to ac- quire respect for me . " All of which was ...
... Bellanby inquired . " What part do you play ? " " Now ? None , " Migg snarled . " I have no charm , gentlemen . I come later . When he outgrows his respect for you , he'll begin to ac- quire respect for me . " All of which was ...
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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