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Hobson's Choice

Alfred Bester

First published August 1952
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Synopsis

After the next nuclear war, a U.S. government statistician notices that the population is unexpectedly rising, and traces the source to a small town in Kansas.

Publications (38)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
August 1952 Cover The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1952 Fantasy House, Inc. MAGAZINE 3
March 1953 Cover The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Second Series Little, Brown Anthology 246
September 1956 Cover Best SF Two: Science Fiction Stories Faber and Faber Anthology 24
May 1958 Cover Starburst Signet / New American Library Collection 133
September 1958 Cover Best SF Two The Science Fiction Book Club (UK) Anthology
1960 Cover Best SF Two Faber and Faber Anthology 24
1962 Cover Best SF Two Faber and Faber Anthology 24
1964 Cover Best SF Two Faber and Faber Anthology 24
April 1965 Cover Starburst Signet / New American Library Collection 133
April 1965 Cover Starburst Signet / New American Library of Canada Collection 133
1968 Cover Best SF Two Faber and Faber Anthology 24
October 1968 Cover Starburst Sphere Books Collection 132
December 1970 Cover Starburst Signet / New American Library of Canada Collection 133
March 1973 Cover Starburst Sphere Books Collection 132
October 1973 Cover Tomorrow and Tomorrow Simon & Schuster Anthology 168
1974 Cover Infinite Jests: The Lighter Side of Science Fiction Chilton Anthology 185
August 1974 Cover Tomorrow and Tomorrow Gollancz Anthology 168
July 1976 Cover Star Light, Star Bright: The Great Short Fiction of Alfred Bester Volume II Berkley/Putnam Collection 68
December 1976 Cover Starlight: The Great Short Fiction of Alfred Bester Nelson Doubleday / SFBC Omnibus 260
1977 Cover The Best Science Fiction Stories Hamlyn Anthology 372
June 1977 Cover Starburst Pan Books Collection 131
July 1977 Cover Starlight: The Great Short Fiction of Alfred Bester Berkley Medallion Omnibus 283
February 1978 Star Light, Star Bright Gollancz Collection
1979 Cover Star Light, Star Bright: The Great Short Fiction of Alfred Bester Volume 2 Fontana Collection 64
March 1980 Cover Starburst Signet / New American Library Collection 133
March 1980 Cover Starburst Signet / New American Library of Canada Collection 133
April 1980 Cover The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction Priam Books / Arbor House Anthology 391
April 1980 Cover The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction Arbor House Anthology 391
January 1986 Cover The Great SF Stories #14 (1952) DAW Books Anthology 103
January 1986 Cover The Great SF Stories #14 (1952) DAW Books Anthology 103
November 1987 Cover Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century Avenel Books Anthology 391
November 1997 Cover Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester Vintage Books Collection 112
November 1997 Cover Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester Topeka Bindery Collection
August 1998 Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester Vintage Books / SFBC Collection
April 2000 Cover The SFWA Grand Masters: Volume Two Tor Anthology 378
April 2001 Cover The SFWA Grand Masters, Volume 2 Tor Anthology
March 2009 Cover Infinite Jests Wildside Press Anthology
May 2013 Cover Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester Byron Preiss Visual Publications Collection |7