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 131
... tell you . Transportation . Lists of ma- rine disasters and railroad wrecks would tell you whether rocket travel has replaced the train and ship . " " Has it ? " Knight chuckled . " Flight records would tell you which company's stock ...
... tell you . Transportation . Lists of ma- rine disasters and railroad wrecks would tell you whether rocket travel has replaced the train and ship . " " Has it ? " Knight chuckled . " Flight records would tell you which company's stock ...
Page 344
... telling yourself , and a mite too hard , Virginia . " Gran- ville looked at her keenly . " You're lying about something . I can tell . What is it ? " " Don't be silly , Charles . " " Yes you are . Any other time you're a sucker for a ...
... telling yourself , and a mite too hard , Virginia . " Gran- ville looked at her keenly . " You're lying about something . I can tell . What is it ? " " Don't be silly , Charles . " " Yes you are . Any other time you're a sucker for a ...
Page 362
... tell him I told you . Promise . ” " We won't tell the doc anything , " Simmons answered . " All we want to do is avoid trouble . Right ? Where is he ? " " There won't be a scandal ? " Jinny persisted . " You won't make a fuss . You ...
... tell him I told you . Promise . ” " We won't tell the doc anything , " Simmons answered . " All we want to do is avoid trouble . Right ? Where is he ? " " There won't be a scandal ? " Jinny persisted . " You won't make a fuss . You ...
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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