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 44
... picked up his cigarette lighter , flicked it and dropped it into the wastepaper basket . The voice of the operator buzzed in the phone . Warbeck shouted , " I want a policeman ! " Then he kicked the flaming basket into the center of the ...
... picked up his cigarette lighter , flicked it and dropped it into the wastepaper basket . The voice of the operator buzzed in the phone . Warbeck shouted , " I want a policeman ! " Then he kicked the flaming basket into the center of the ...
Page 61
... picked up the bill by a corner , and ran back into the picture gallery where the art dealer still stood staring glassily at the orange flame . Aquila flut- tered the bill before the sightless eyes . " Listen , my ancient , " Aquila ...
... picked up the bill by a corner , and ran back into the picture gallery where the art dealer still stood staring glassily at the orange flame . Aquila flut- tered the bill before the sightless eyes . " Listen , my ancient , " Aquila ...
Page 83
... picked up his spade and followed the first clown into the cemetery . The first clown was a tall man , gaunt , with a bitter ex- pression but a sprightly manner . " Is she to be buried in Christian burial that wilfully seeks her own ...
... picked up his spade and followed the first clown into the cemetery . The first clown was a tall man , gaunt , with a bitter ex- pression but a sprightly manner . " Is she to be buried in Christian burial that wilfully seeks her own ...
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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