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 256
... Violet . That would be doing it the L.A. way . Every time a couple want a one- night stand they go to a Wedmaton , put in a quarter and get hitched . The next morning they go to a Renomaton and get unhitched , and their conscience is ...
... Violet . That would be doing it the L.A. way . Every time a couple want a one- night stand they go to a Wedmaton , put in a quarter and get hitched . The next morning they go to a Renomaton and get unhitched , and their conscience is ...
Page 257
The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester Alfred Bester. " Violet ... Violet . . . Don't let's fight . We have to stick together . Look , I'll go along with it your way . What the hell , it's only a quar- ter . But we'll put that lock on your ...
The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester Alfred Bester. " Violet ... Violet . . . Don't let's fight . We have to stick together . Look , I'll go along with it your way . What the hell , it's only a quar- ter . But we'll put that lock on your ...
Page 267
... Violet leaped into the coxswain's seat of an eight - oared shell . " Follow that bottle , " she cried . On the Jersey side ( Nevada East ) Violet pursued Bauer onto the Freeway and thence , by Dodge - Em Kar , to Old Newark , where ...
... Violet leaped into the coxswain's seat of an eight - oared shell . " Follow that bottle , " she cried . On the Jersey side ( Nevada East ) Violet pursued Bauer onto the Freeway and thence , by Dodge - Em Kar , to Old Newark , where ...
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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