Dazzlement and enchantment are Bester s methods. His stories never stand still a moment. --Damon Knight author of Why Do Birds Alfred Bester took science fiction into hyperdrive endowing it with a wit speed and narrative inventiveness that have inspired two generations of writers. And nowhere is Bester funnier speedier or more audacious than in these seventeen short stories--two of them previously unpublished--that have now been brought together in a single volume for the first time. Read about the sweet-natured young man whose phenomenal good luck turns out to be disastrous for the rest of humanity. Find out why tourists are flocking to a hellish little town in a post-nuclear Kansas. Meet a warlock who practices on Park Avenue and whose potions comply with the Pure Food and Drug Act. Make a deal with the Devil--but not without calling your agent. Dazzling effervescent sexy and sardonic Virtual Unrealities is a historic collection from one of science fiction s true pathbreakers. Alfred Bester was one of the handful of writers who invented modern science fiction. --Harry Harrison