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 86
... beautiful woman . She was tall and dark with cropped curly hair and lovely long legs . She wore a white blouse , tiger - skin riding breeches and patent leather boots . She car- ried a rifle . She wore a revolver on her hip . She was ...
... beautiful woman . She was tall and dark with cropped curly hair and lovely long legs . She wore a white blouse , tiger - skin riding breeches and patent leather boots . She car- ried a rifle . She wore a revolver on her hip . She was ...
Page 87
The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester Alfred Bester. " I'm a beautiful woman with an I.Q. of 141 which is more im- portant for the propagation of a brave new beautiful race of men to inherit the good green earth , " she said . " Not with my ...
The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester Alfred Bester. " I'm a beautiful woman with an I.Q. of 141 which is more im- portant for the propagation of a brave new beautiful race of men to inherit the good green earth , " she said . " Not with my ...
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... beautiful , enchanting Pearl of Perfection was tearing my monogrammed silk sheets , woven at incredible cost by brain- damaged nuns . She was tearing them with her mythologically au- thentic feet . Look at them . " There was no need to ...
... beautiful , enchanting Pearl of Perfection was tearing my monogrammed silk sheets , woven at incredible cost by brain- damaged nuns . She was tearing them with her mythologically au- thentic feet . Look at them . " There was no need to ...
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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