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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... fiction formulas of the era . But " Adam and No Eve " ( Astounding Science Fiction , Septem- ber 1941 ) was good enough to get into Adventures in Time and Space , the first of the classic science fiction anthologies , and it still has a ...
... fiction formulas of the era . But " Adam and No Eve " ( Astounding Science Fiction , Septem- ber 1941 ) was good enough to get into Adventures in Time and Space , the first of the classic science fiction anthologies , and it still has a ...
Page xii
... science fiction . There had been great changes in the science fiction field during Bester's eight - year absence , and no need now existed for him to con- form to the hackneyed pulp magazine conventions . Before the war , there had been ...
... science fiction . There had been great changes in the science fiction field during Bester's eight - year absence , and no need now existed for him to con- form to the hackneyed pulp magazine conventions . Before the war , there had been ...
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... Fiction , August 1952 ) , " Time is the Traitor " ( Fan- tasy and Science Fiction , September 1953 ) , " Disappearing Act " ( Star Sci- ence Fiction # 2 , 1953 ) , “ 5,271,009 " ( Fantasy & Science Fiction , March 1954 ) , and the most ...
... Fiction , August 1952 ) , " Time is the Traitor " ( Fan- tasy and Science Fiction , September 1953 ) , " Disappearing Act " ( Star Sci- ence Fiction # 2 , 1953 ) , “ 5,271,009 " ( Fantasy & Science Fiction , March 1954 ) , and the most ...
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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