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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... Dimmock was shocked . That was untrue , he assured the general . " All right , Dimmock . So you've got your twenty - four crocks in there . Their job's to get well . Your job's to cure them . What the hell's upsetting the hospital about ...
... Dimmock was shocked . That was untrue , he assured the general . " All right , Dimmock . So you've got your twenty - four crocks in there . Their job's to get well . Your job's to cure them . What the hell's upsetting the hospital about ...
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... Dimmock saw the steel - faced ruth- less squad awaiting the patients and himself , he started . General Car- penter started grimly . " Didn't occur to you that we mightn't buy your disappearance story , eh Dimmock ? ” " S - Sir ? " " I ...
... Dimmock saw the steel - faced ruth- less squad awaiting the patients and himself , he started . General Car- penter started grimly . " Didn't occur to you that we mightn't buy your disappearance story , eh Dimmock ? ” " S - Sir ? " " I ...
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... Dimmock , squealing , to the breaking point three times , but there was nothing to break . " Let him stew for now ... Dimmock . " Captain Dimmock , I apologize . Colonel Dimmock , you've been promoted for making an important discov- ery ...
... Dimmock , squealing , to the breaking point three times , but there was nothing to break . " Let him stew for now ... Dimmock . " Captain Dimmock , I apologize . Colonel Dimmock , you've been promoted for making an important discov- ery ...
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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