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 162
... Hassel glaring at them from the hallway . Now , remember Ampère and Charles and Boltzmann . Hassel weighed one hundred and ninety pounds . He was muscular and un- inhibited . It would have been child's play for him to have dismem- bered ...
... Hassel glaring at them from the hallway . Now , remember Ampère and Charles and Boltzmann . Hassel weighed one hundred and ninety pounds . He was muscular and un- inhibited . It would have been child's play for him to have dismem- bered ...
Page 164
... Hassel went back to the year 1775 , visited a Virginia farm and shot a young colonel in the brisket . The colonel's name was George Washington , and Hassel made sure he was dead . He returned to his own time and his own home . There was ...
... Hassel went back to the year 1775 , visited a Virginia farm and shot a young colonel in the brisket . The colonel's name was George Washington , and Hassel made sure he was dead . He returned to his own time and his own home . There was ...
Page 167
... Hassel paid no attention to himself ; indeed , he did not appear to be aware of himself . He marched straight up to ... Hassel's attempt to stop him and engage him in dispute , turned and marched off , muttering venomously to himself ...
... Hassel paid no attention to himself ; indeed , he did not appear to be aware of himself . He marched straight up to ... Hassel's attempt to stop him and engage him in dispute , turned and marched off , muttering venomously to himself ...
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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