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_aMelchior, Ib, _d1917-2015 |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | _aThe vidiot |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026 |
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_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats |
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| 490 | 1 | _aProduced from Fantastic Universe, March 1956 (Vol. 5, No. 2.). | |
| 500 | _aRelease date is 2026-02-27 | ||
| 508 | _aTom Trussel and Sean/IB@DP (This file was produced from images generously (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) | ||
| 520 | _aThe vidiot by Ib Melchior is a science fiction short story written in the mid-20th century. It centers on a television technician who accidentally discovers a way to see through walls, raising questions about surveillance, power, and moral responsibility. An ambitious TV “vidiot,” Don Hartley, is testing special-effects gear during a space-opera rehearsal when a shorted circuit turns a matte into a window that peers through the studio’s backdrop, walls, and out to the street. Mapping the effect, he realizes he can build a single camera—the “Hartleycam”—that could penetrate any barrier. Tempted by fame and fortune, he also envisions a nightmare world of total, inescapable observation and authoritarian control. After a troubled day, he chooses restraint: he visits his executive to confess only the equipment damage, accepts a second chance at work, and keeps his blueprints to himself, concluding that the world is not yet ready for his invention. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cNew York: King-Size Publications, Inc., 1956 |
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| 653 | _aScience fiction | ||
| 653 | _aShort stories | ||
| 653 | _aInventions -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aTelevision programs -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aCameras -- Fiction | ||
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_aHunter, Mel, _d1927-2004 |
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| 830 | 0 | _aProduced from Fantastic Universe, March 1956 (Vol. 5, No. 2.). | |
| 856 | 4 | _uhttps://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Universe_v05n02_1956-03/page/n3/mode/2up | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78057 |
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