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 88
... stared . A fifty - year - old face stared back at him : lined , hardened , solid , determined . Halsyon leaped to his feet . " Gently , gently , " Mr. Aquila admonished . " It is not so bad . It is damned good . You are still thirty ...
... stared . A fifty - year - old face stared back at him : lined , hardened , solid , determined . Halsyon leaped to his feet . " Gently , gently , " Mr. Aquila admonished . " It is not so bad . It is damned good . You are still thirty ...
Page 122
... stared at the girl ; she stared at him . " Splem ! " they both cried . They embraced and kissed shoulders . " St'u my rock - ribbering rib - rockery to heart the hearts two , " the man said . " Heart's too , argal , too heart , " the ...
... stared at the girl ; she stared at him . " Splem ! " they both cried . They embraced and kissed shoulders . " St'u my rock - ribbering rib - rockery to heart the hearts two , " the man said . " Heart's too , argal , too heart , " the ...
Page 279
... stared upward like a cylopian eye . Krane thought : She'll die after this trip . She'll return to the Earth and smash in a blaze of fire and thunder , for there's no way yet of de- vising a safe landing for a rocket ship . But it's ...
... stared upward like a cylopian eye . Krane thought : She'll die after this trip . She'll return to the Earth and smash in a blaze of fire and thunder , for there's no way yet of de- vising a safe landing for a rocket ship . But it's ...
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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