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 73
... street like a gyrating doll . Halsyon looked down in horror . A crowd gathered around the smashed body . Faces upturned . Fists shook . An ominous growl be- gan . The World Procurer dashed into the suite . " My old ! My blue ! " he ...
... street like a gyrating doll . Halsyon looked down in horror . A crowd gathered around the smashed body . Faces upturned . Fists shook . An ominous growl be- gan . The World Procurer dashed into the suite . " My old ! My blue ! " he ...
Page 343
... Street . " Jinny looked interested and curious . " Do you know anything about- " " What time today did you get the ... Street was crushed to death under a truck five hours before you spoke to him . " Nine - ten South Street was a half ...
... Street . " Jinny looked interested and curious . " Do you know anything about- " " What time today did you get the ... Street was crushed to death under a truck five hours before you spoke to him . " Nine - ten South Street was a half ...
Page 357
... Street behind the hospital . The street was dark and deserted ... comfortably deserted . Granville hung back outside the bloom of a sickly street lamp and took stock . There would be an alarm out for him . Gardner would see to that . In ...
... Street behind the hospital . The street was dark and deserted ... comfortably deserted . Granville hung back outside the bloom of a sickly street lamp and took stock . There would be an alarm out for him . Gardner would see to that . In ...
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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