Skip to main content

Virtual Unrealities - The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester

By: Vintage Books

Type: Novel - Softcover

Product Line: Science Fiction Novels (Vintage Books)

Last Stocked on 9/19/2021

Product Info

Title
Virtual Unrealities - The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester
Publisher
Category
Sub-category
Author
Alfred Bester
Publish Year
1998
Pages
366
Dimensions
5x8x1"
NKG Part #
2147844424
Type
Novel - Softcover

Description

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And nowhere is Bester funnier, speedier, or more audacious than in these seventeen short stories—two of them previously unpublished—that have now been brought together in a single volume for the first time.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.