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Virtual Unrealities

Author	Alfred Bester
Cover artist	Evan Gaffney
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Random House
Publication date	1997
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (paperback)
ISBN	0-679-76783-5

Virtual Unrealities is a collection of science fiction short stories by the American author Alfred Bester, with an introduction by Robert Silverberg.

Contents

• "Disappearing Act" (originally published in 1953)
• "Oddy and Id" (originally published in 1950 under the title "The Devil’s Invention")
• "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" (originally published in 1953)
• "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed" (originally published in 1958) (Hugo Award Nominee)
• "The Pi Man" (originally published in 1959) (Hugo Award 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• "And 3 1/2 to Go" (fragment - previously unpublished)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• "The Devil Without Glasses" (previously unpublished)