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Prima Donna 1980 by Frederic Brown:
Science Fiction Inventions, Technology and Ideas
"WHEN television becomes an established, perfected mode of entertainment and the ownership of the centers of broadcasting becomes more concentrated — which present tendencies indicate as probabilities in the near future — problems galore, of astoundingly new and as yet undreamed of complications, must follow in natural sequence. A few of these problems — with their cleverly ingenious solutions — are propounded by our contributor from H. G. Wells' country. We are glad to welcome our new English author to our midst."
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('Prima Donna 1980' by Bernard Brown)
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