MARTIAN TIME-SLIP
by Philip K. Dick
On the arid colony of Mars the only thing more precious than water may be a ten-year-old schizophrenic boy named Manfred Steiner. For although the UN has slated “anomalous” children for deportation and destruction, other people—especially Supreme Goodmember Arnie Kolt—suspect that Manfred’s disorder may be a window into the future.
Fiction/Science Fiction/0-679-76167-5
VIRTUAL UNREALITIES
The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester
with an Introduction by Robert Silverberg
Alfred Bester took science fiction into hyperdrive, endowing it with a wit, speed, and narrative inventiveness that have inspired two generations of writers. Read about the sweet-natured young man whose phenomenal good luck turns out to be disastrous for the rest of humanity. Meet a warlock who practices on Park Avenue, or make a deal with the devil—but not without calling your agent. Virtual Unrealities is a historic collection from one of science fiction’s true pathbreakers.
A Vintage Original
Science Fiction/0-679-76783-5
EXEGESIS
by Astro Teller
“I request mail. I am edgar. I explore.” Meet edgar. He’s very smart, though sometimes a bit naive edgar has a great sense of humor, though sometimes a bit on the wild side, edgar is an artificial intelligence computer program invented by Alice Wu at her lab in Stanford, where it becomes apparent that not only is edgar real, but completely beyond Alice’s—or anyone else’s—control.
A Vintage Contemporaries Original
Fiction/0-375-70051-X
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