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 61
... flame . Aquila flut- tered the bill before the sightless eyes . " Listen , my ancient , " Aquila whispered . " You will visit Jeffrey Halsyon this afternoon . N'est - ce - pas ? You will give him this very own coin of the realm when he ...
... flame . Aquila flut- tered the bill before the sightless eyes . " Listen , my ancient , " Aquila whispered . " You will visit Jeffrey Halsyon this afternoon . N'est - ce - pas ? You will give him this very own coin of the realm when he ...
Page 109
... flame shot up like a lurid fountain . It subsided into a low crater of burning reeds . Whipped by the wind , the distant hem of flame fanned up into a wall , ten feet high . The wall began marching down on us , crackling fiercely ...
... flame shot up like a lurid fountain . It subsided into a low crater of burning reeds . Whipped by the wind , the distant hem of flame fanned up into a wall , ten feet high . The wall began marching down on us , crackling fiercely ...
Page 110
... flame passed over them . The android shuddered and burst into an earsplitting scream . " All reet ! All reet ! " it ... flames captured it hypnotically . It danced and capered in a lunatic rhumba before the wall of fire . Its legs ...
... flame passed over them . The android shuddered and burst into an earsplitting scream . " All reet ! All reet ! " it ... flames captured it hypnotically . It danced and capered in a lunatic rhumba before the wall of fire . Its legs ...
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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