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 144
... girls appeared , his grim possession would take over again and he would examine the line carefully and dispassionately . Very rarely he would discover a girl that interested him ; always the identical type — a girl with jet hair , inky ...
... girls appeared , his grim possession would take over again and he would examine the line carefully and dispassionately . Very rarely he would discover a girl that interested him ; always the identical type — a girl with jet hair , inky ...
Page 145
... girls made Alceste dizzy . " He's got an idee fix , " Alceste told Fisher in the Cygnus Splen- dide , " and I got it figured this much . He's looking for a special partic- ular girl and nobody comes up to specifications . " " A girl ...
... girls made Alceste dizzy . " He's got an idee fix , " Alceste told Fisher in the Cygnus Splen- dide , " and I got it figured this much . He's looking for a special partic- ular girl and nobody comes up to specifications . " " A girl ...
Page 148
... girl after girl . He hopes . He talks . He makes the pass . If it's Sima's duplicate , he knows she'll re- spond just the way he remembers Sima responding ten years ago . ' Are you Sima ? ' he asks himself . ' No , ' he says and moves ...
... girl after girl . He hopes . He talks . He makes the pass . If it's Sima's duplicate , he knows she'll re- spond just the way he remembers Sima responding ten years ago . ' Are you Sima ? ' he asks himself . ' No , ' he says and moves ...
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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