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The Faulty Television Receiver - Alfred and Bertha's Marvellous Twenty-First Century Life #2 - cover

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The Faulty Television Receiver - Alfred and Bertha's Marvellous Twenty-First Century Life #2

Cora Buhlert

Publisher: Pegasus Pulp Publishing

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Summary

Bertha and Alfred, married for twenty years, enjoy a truly science fictional life in the twenty-first century. But in spite of all the technological marvels surrounding them, a faulty television receiver can still lead to argument and cause them to examine their marriage. 
This parodistic piece is a mundane short story of 4100 words, written in the style of science fiction's "golden age" of the 1940s and 1950s.
Available since: 07/07/2015.

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