
When visionary broadcaster Archy House launches a revolutionary three‑dimensional TV system, he expects applause, not pandemonium. A malfunction sends full‑scale, living projections into millions of living rooms, turning ordinary suburbs into stages for jugglers, acrobats and outright monsters. As the nation reels, Archy must juggle frantic phone calls from the President, a Hawaiian general, and a frantic studio crew, all while keeping his cool on air.
The story follows Archy’s frantic scramble to restore the scramblers that can dissolve the strange images, pulling together engineers, glamorous writers, and a nervous cast of technicians into a high‑stakes, almost farcical rescue. Along the way, the humor of a live‑on‑air personality clashing with bureaucratic pressure reveals a world where cutting‑edge technology teeters on the edge of chaos. Listeners will be drawn into the tension of a nation holding its breath, waiting to see whether the projections will fade before the panic becomes permanent.
Language
en
Duration
~21 minutes (20K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2021-04-30
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
A mid-century science fiction writer remembered for brisk, imaginative stories with classic pulp-magazine energy. His surviving work includes tales of outer space, body-swapping, haunted places, and other strange turns.
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