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• "And 3 1/2 to Go" (fragment - previously unpublished)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• "The Devil Without Glasses" (previously unpublished)

References