The Greatest Television Show on Earth
- by J. G. Ballard
- Short Story
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “The Greatest Television Show on Earth” by J. G. Ballard, in Ambit 53, 1972/1973.
Wildly popular global TV stations are desperate for new material for their viewers, so the discovery of time travel in 2001 will be a fortuitous boon if it can live up to its hype.
These safaris into the past cost approximately a million dollars a minute. After a few brief journeys to verify the Crucifixion, the signing of Magna Carta and Columbus’s discovery of the Americas, the government-financed Einstein Memorial Time Centre at Princeton was forced to suspend operations.
Plainly, only one other group could finance further explorations into the past—the world’s television corporations.
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- “The Greatest Television Show on Earth” by J. G. Ballard, in Ambit 53, 1972/1973.