Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester Paperback - 1997
by Alfred Bester; Roger Zelazny
Available for the first time in a single volume: the pioneering short stories of Alfred Bester, author of "The Stars My Destination", including two never-before-published pieces.
From the jacket flap
"Dazzlement and enchantment are Bester's methods. His stories never stand still a moment."
--Damon Knight, author of Why Do Birds Alfred Bester took science fiction into hyperdrive, endowing it with a wit, speed, and narrative inventiveness that have inspired two generations of writers. And nowhere is Bester funnier, speedier, or more audacious than in these seventeen short stories--two of them previously unpublished--that have now been brought together in a single volume for the first time.
Read about the sweet-natured young man whose phenomenal good luck turns out to be disastrous for the rest of humanity. Find out why tourists are flocking to a hellish little town in a post-nuclear Kansas. Meet a warlock who practices on Park Avenue and whose potions comply with the Pure Food and Drug Act. Make a deal with the Devil--but not without calling your agent. Dazzling, effervescent, sexy, and sardonic, Virtual Unrealities is a historic collection from one of science fiction's true pathbreakers. "Alfred Bester was one of the handful of writers who invented modern science fiction. "
--Harry Harrison
Details
- Title Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester
- Author Alfred Bester; Roger Zelazny
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1997-11-11
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780679767831 / 0679767835
- Weight 0.67 lbs (0.30 kg)
- Dimensions 8.01 x 5.21 x 0.83 in (20.35 x 13.23 x 2.11 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, Science fiction, American
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97008738
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
Citations
- Booklist, 10/01/1997, Page 311
- Kirkus Reviews, 10/01/1997, Page 1493
- Publishers Weekly, 09/29/1997, Page 70
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