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 88
... happened or not have happened ? Sí . I can do . This can never have happened . Spurlos versenkt . It is ten sec- onds from your escape . You can have your pretty young face back . You can be recaptured . You can return to the safe ulcer ...
... happened or not have happened ? Sí . I can do . This can never have happened . Spurlos versenkt . It is ten sec- onds from your escape . You can have your pretty young face back . You can be recaptured . You can return to the safe ulcer ...
Page 152
... happened ? " ... Alceste was jolted . Up to this moment she had been an objec- tive . a goal ... unreal , unalive . This was a living woman . There was a curious hesitation in her speech , almost a lisp . Her head had an engaging tilt ...
... happened ? " ... Alceste was jolted . Up to this moment she had been an objec- tive . a goal ... unreal , unalive . This was a living woman . There was a curious hesitation in her speech , almost a lisp . Her head had an engaging tilt ...
Page 328
... happened . " " How what happened ? " Galatea demanded . " Sweetheart , you are pregnant . " " No , no , no ! " " I know it can't be anyone in this house . Claudia , has she been promiscuous outside ? " NO " How can you ask such ...
... happened . " " How what happened ? " Galatea demanded . " Sweetheart , you are pregnant . " " No , no , no ! " " I know it can't be anyone in this house . Claudia , has she been promiscuous outside ? " NO " How can you ask such ...
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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