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 65
... reached the main building . He was halfway out and still no alarm . He knew those brazen bells . They tested them every Wednesday noon . It's like a game , he told himself . It's fun . It's nothing to be scared of . It's being safely ...
... reached the main building . He was halfway out and still no alarm . He knew those brazen bells . They tested them every Wednesday noon . It's like a game , he told himself . It's fun . It's nothing to be scared of . It's being safely ...
Page 109
... reached into his side pocket to make sure the gun was still in place . The car skidded . The tires squealed on frost and reeds . The wheel was wrenched from his grasp and the car yawed up a small hillock and overturned . The motor ...
... reached into his side pocket to make sure the gun was still in place . The car skidded . The tires squealed on frost and reeds . The wheel was wrenched from his grasp and the car yawed up a small hillock and overturned . The motor ...
Page 280
... reached the ladder and began mounting to the port , he screamed with the agony of his burns . Umber was howling at the foot of the ladder , and Krane real- ized that the dog could never escape from the rocket blasts . He reached down ...
... reached the ladder and began mounting to the port , he screamed with the agony of his burns . Umber was howling at the foot of the ladder , and Krane real- ized that the dog could never escape from the rocket blasts . He reached down ...
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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