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Virtual Unrealities is a collection of short stories by science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

author Alfred Bester

Alfred Bester

Alfred Bester was an American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scripter for comic strips and comic books...

. Published in 1997 by Random House

Random House

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ISBN 0-679-76783-5, with an introduction by Robert Silverberg

Robert Silverberg

Robert Silverberg is an American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple nominee of the Hugo Award and a winner of the Nebula Award.-Early years:...

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Virtual Unrealities contains the stories:

Disappearing Act
Oddy and Id
Star Light, Star Bright (originally published in 1953, used as the title for two other compilations of Bester's short stories)
5,271,009 (originally published in 1954)
Fondly Fahrenheit (originally published in 1954)
Hobson's Choice (originally published in 1952)
Of Time and Third Avenue (originally published in 1952)
Time is the Traitor
Time is the Traitor
"Time Is the Traitor" is a science fiction short story by Alfred Bester originally published in 1953. It is included in the Bester anthologies The Dark Side of the Earth and Virtual Unrealities . Warner Bros. bought the film rights to the story in 1998...

(originally published in 1953)
The Men Who Murdered Mohammed
The Men Who Murdered Mohammed
"The Men Who Murdered Mohammed" is a science fiction short story by Alfred Bester; it was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in October 1958...

(originally published in 1958) (Hugo Award
Hugo Award
The Hugo Awards are given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was officially named the Science Fiction Achievement Awards...

Nominee)
The Pi Man (originally published in 1959) (Hugo Award
Hugo Award
The Hugo Awards are given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was officially named the Science Fiction Achievement Awards...

Nominee)
They Don't Make Life Like They Used To (originally published in 1963)
Will You Wait? (originally published in 1959)
The Flowered Thundermug (originally published in 1964)
Adam and No Eve (originally published in 1941)
And 3 1/2 to Go (fragment - previously unpublished)
Galatea Galante (originally published in 1979)
The Devil Without Glasses (previously unpublished)

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