Virtual Unrealities is a collection of short stories by science fiction author Alfred Bester. Published in 1997 by Random House ISBN 0-679-76783-5, with an introduction by Robert Silverberg.
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 (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- And 3 1/2 to Go (fragment - previously unpublished)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- The Devil Without Glasses (previously unpublished)
Famous quotes containing the words virtual and/or unrealities:
“Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary.... He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“Gentlemen, let’s
Forget the past, its related errors, coarseness
Of parents, laxities, unrealities of principle
Think of tomorrow. Make a firm postulate
Of simplicity in desire and act....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)