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 140
... head sharply . “ You can fix so far and no further . You reach a saturation point . We've reached it now . What are we going to do ? " " What the hell's the matter with Strapp anyway ? " one of the burly men inquired . " Who knows ...
... head sharply . “ You can fix so far and no further . You reach a saturation point . We've reached it now . What are we going to do ? " " What the hell's the matter with Strapp anyway ? " one of the burly men inquired . " Who knows ...
Page 276
... head with his arms . With the knapsack as a pillow , he prepared to wait out the storm . It would pass as quickly as the rain . The storm whipped up a great bewilderment in his sick head . Like a child he pushed at the pieces of his ...
... head with his arms . With the knapsack as a pillow , he prepared to wait out the storm . It would pass as quickly as the rain . The storm whipped up a great bewilderment in his sick head . Like a child he pushed at the pieces of his ...
Page 293
... head attached . Work of that Tejas tailor who's so nitzy with surgical needle and thread . Peacock coronet on head . Good theater to blindfold its eyes . Conveys the conviction that its glance will kill . Hmmm . Ought to gag the mouth ...
... head attached . Work of that Tejas tailor who's so nitzy with surgical needle and thread . Peacock coronet on head . Good theater to blindfold its eyes . Conveys the conviction that its glance will kill . Hmmm . Ought to gag the mouth ...
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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