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 236
... Clifton Webb for $ 150,000 . I might mention , in pass- ing , that in my analysis of that curio in the current Phil . Trans . I cast grave doubts on its authenticity . Certain anachronisms in the text in- dicate a possible forgery ...
... Clifton Webb for $ 150,000 . I might mention , in pass- ing , that in my analysis of that curio in the current Phil . Trans . I cast grave doubts on its authenticity . Certain anachronisms in the text in- dicate a possible forgery ...
Page 244
... Clifton Webb is best suited to the role . We much publicize the shipment of the rare treasure to Mr. Webb . We bait a trap in the home of Mr. Webb for our criminal , and - Mah ! We have him . " " Will the Duke and Mr. Webb cooperate ...
... Clifton Webb is best suited to the role . We much publicize the shipment of the rare treasure to Mr. Webb . We bait a trap in the home of Mr. Webb for our criminal , and - Mah ! We have him . " " Will the Duke and Mr. Webb cooperate ...
Page 258
... Clifton Webb on or about midnight last night ? " " Like I said , I was having a vodka - and - spinach in Ye Olde Mod- erne Beer Taverne - I put the foam on top when we built it — and this guy come up to me and got to talking . He told ...
... Clifton Webb on or about midnight last night ? " " Like I said , I was having a vodka - and - spinach in Ye Olde Mod- erne Beer Taverne - I put the foam on top when we built it — and this guy come up to me and got to talking . He told ...
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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