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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... story ( “ The Broken Axiom , " Thrilling Wonder Sto- ries , April 1939 ) carried off that month's $ 50 prize in the Am- ateur Story Contest that Thrilling Wonder was then running every issue to attract new talent . He was twenty - five ...
... story ( “ The Broken Axiom , " Thrilling Wonder Sto- ries , April 1939 ) carried off that month's $ 50 prize in the Am- ateur Story Contest that Thrilling Wonder was then running every issue to attract new talent . He was twenty - five ...
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... stories were something that the garishly pulpy old Thrilling Wonder Stories published by the dozens in those days ... story in motion , back there nearly sixty years ago : It was a fairly simple apparatus , considering what it could ...
... stories were something that the garishly pulpy old Thrilling Wonder Stories published by the dozens in those days ... story in motion , back there nearly sixty years ago : It was a fairly simple apparatus , considering what it could ...
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... story for Camp- bell " Oddy and Id , " which Campbell published under the title of " The Devil's Invention " in Astounding for August 1950. But the post- war Campbell had become obsessed with Dianetics , a technique of psychotherapy ...
... story for Camp- bell " Oddy and Id , " which Campbell published under the title of " The Devil's Invention " in Astounding for August 1950. But the post- war Campbell had become obsessed with Dianetics , a technique of psychotherapy ...
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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