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 141
... friend , ” the brunette said . " Why ? " " We could find out what's bothering him without destroying anything . People talk to their friends . Strapp might talk . " " We're his friends . " " No , we're not . We're his associates ...
... friend , ” the brunette said . " Why ? " " We could find out what's bothering him without destroying anything . People talk to their friends . Strapp might talk . " " We're his friends . " " No , we're not . We're his associates ...
Page 142
... friend , and we'll have to ease off the schedule to give the friend a chance to make Strapp talk . From now on we cut ... friends . He was a powerful man in his middle thirties , sandy - haired , freckle- faced , with a broken nose and ...
... friend , and we'll have to ease off the schedule to give the friend a chance to make Strapp talk . From now on we cut ... friends . He was a powerful man in his middle thirties , sandy - haired , freckle- faced , with a broken nose and ...
Page 149
... friends from now on . I'll let you know when he'll be free next year . " " You'll never pull it off . I'll see Johnny when and where I please . " " Do you want him for a friend ? " Fisher smiled unpleasantly . " Then you'll see him when ...
... friends from now on . I'll let you know when he'll be free next year . " " You'll never pull it off . I'll see Johnny when and where I please . " " Do you want him for a friend ? " Fisher smiled unpleasantly . " Then you'll see him when ...
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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