Browsing in the Psychoshop

Virtual Unrealities (Alfred Bester, introduction by Robert Silverberg. Vintage Books, ISBN 0-679-76783-5)

Introduction: A good overview of Bester's career. It's too bad he spent more time out of science fiction than in it!

Disappearing Act: Where are all the patients in Ward T going to? An early tale, but showing many of Bester's best touches.

Made up of: Introduction (Robert Silverberg); Disappearing Act; Oddy and Id; Star Light. Star Bright; 5,271,009; Fondly Fahrenheit; Hobson's Choice; Of Time and Third Avenue; Time is the Traitor; The Men Who Murdered Mohammed; The Pi Man; They Don't Make Life Like They Used To; Will You Wait?; The Flowered Thundermug; Adam and No Eve; And 3 1/2 to Go (fragment); Galatea Galante; The Devil Without Glasses (previously unpublished).

Counts as two entries in the 2006 Short Story Project.

Part of the 2007 Short Story Project.

Part of the 2008 Year in Shorts.