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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... mean it's trying to pass as a human . I mean it's trying to pass as a lower grade android . " " Why ? " " Suppose it had ' MA ' on its forehead . " " Multiple aptitude ? Then why in hell would Venice waste it stoking furnaces if it ...
... mean it's trying to pass as a human . I mean it's trying to pass as a lower grade android . " " Why ? " " Suppose it had ' MA ' on its forehead . " " Multiple aptitude ? Then why in hell would Venice waste it stoking furnaces if it ...
Page 171
... mean , you got him too ? " Hassel demanded . " I killed him September 16 , 599. Old Style . " " Why , I got Mohammed January 5 , 598. " " I believe you . " " But how could you have killed him after I killed him ? " " We both killed him ...
... mean , you got him too ? " Hassel demanded . " I killed him September 16 , 599. Old Style . " " Why , I got Mohammed January 5 , 598. " " I believe you . " " But how could you have killed him after I killed him ? " " We both killed him ...
Page 255
... mean , if you want to sell a chair out from under me , that'll be all right . We can always pinch another one . " " You mean share your house together ? " " Sure . " " Couldn't we take turns ? " " Take turns how ? " " Sort of like ...
... mean , if you want to sell a chair out from under me , that'll be all right . We can always pinch another one . " " You mean share your house together ? " " Sure . " " Couldn't we take turns ? " " Take turns how ? " " Sort of like ...
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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