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 165
... library . " Hello , Library ? This is Henry . " " Who ? " " Henry Hassel . " " Speak up , please . " " HENRY HASSEL ! " " Oh . Good afternoon , Henry . " " What have you got on George Washington ? " Library clucked while her scanners ...
... library . " Hello , Library ? This is Henry . " " Who ? " " Henry Hassel . " " Speak up , please . " " HENRY HASSEL ! " " Oh . Good afternoon , Henry . " " What have you got on George Washington ? " Library clucked while her scanners ...
Page 192
... library and went through the main doors which had taken her a week to batter in with a sledgehammer . She ran across the great hall , filthied with five years of droppings from the pigeons roosting there . As she ran , she clapped her ...
... library and went through the main doors which had taken her a week to batter in with a sledgehammer . She ran across the great hall , filthied with five years of droppings from the pigeons roosting there . As she ran , she clapped her ...
Page 247
... library lights , leaving only the pin spot focused on the safe dial . Then he trudged upstairs . In other parts of the house his staff also changed to nightgowns , and then joined him . The Webb home was dark and silent . An hour passed ...
... library lights , leaving only the pin spot focused on the safe dial . Then he trudged upstairs . In other parts of the house his staff also changed to nightgowns , and then joined him . The Webb home was dark and silent . An hour passed ...
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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