Pygmalion’s Spectacles by Stanley G. Weinbaum

Pygmalion’s Spectacles

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Here is the story that presented virtual reality to the world. Dan Berk meets an Elfin professor who has invented a pair of goggles that allow the wearer to enter completely into the action of a story. Sometimes it can be hard to remember that it isn’t real, or is it?

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