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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... shook his head and glanced at the alienist who also shook his head . " Mass illusion , " the alienist said . At that moment PFC Riley , M / Sgt Machan , and Corp / 2 Hanmer reappeared . One moment they were a mass illusion ; the next ...
... shook his head and glanced at the alienist who also shook his head . " Mass illusion , " the alienist said . At that moment PFC Riley , M / Sgt Machan , and Corp / 2 Hanmer reappeared . One moment they were a mass illusion ; the next ...
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... shook his head . " Too farfetched . " " I've worked it out empirically , " Migg continued . " It's something like this . The future is a choice of mutually exclusively possibilities , one or another of which must be realized in terms of ...
... shook his head . " Too farfetched . " " I've worked it out empirically , " Migg continued . " It's something like this . The future is a choice of mutually exclusively possibilities , one or another of which must be realized in terms of ...
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... shook . An ominous growl be- gan . The World Procurer dashed into the suite . " My old ! My blue ! " he cried . " What have you done ? Per conto . It is a spark that will ignite savagery . You are in very grave danger . God damn ...
... shook . An ominous growl be- gan . The World Procurer dashed into the suite . " My old ! My blue ! " he cried . " What have you done ? Per conto . It is a spark that will ignite savagery . You are in very grave danger . God damn ...
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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