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 140
... Fisher , the Strapp liaison man , was left alongside the body in the center of the horrified crowd . " Check his identification , " Fisher snapped . Someone pulled the dead man's wallet out and opened it . " William F. Kruger ...
... Fisher , the Strapp liaison man , was left alongside the body in the center of the horrified crowd . " Check his identification , " Fisher snapped . Someone pulled the dead man's wallet out and opened it . " William F. Kruger ...
Page 148
... Fisher said . " We ought to help him find his duplicate . We ought to coax him into believing some girl's the duplicate . We ought to make him fall in love again . " " No , " Fisher repeated emphatically . " Why no ? " " Because the ...
... Fisher said . " We ought to help him find his duplicate . We ought to coax him into believing some girl's the duplicate . We ought to make him fall in love again . " " No , " Fisher repeated emphatically . " Why no ? " " Because the ...
Page 155
... Fisher added triumphantly . 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 ...
... Fisher added triumphantly . 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 ...
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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