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Cosmic Striptease

by Harlan Ellison, 1958

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Mars announces a pageant to show Earth how a civilized planet lives and puts it on in the sky, with NBC and CBS holding the commercial contract. A husband on a rooftop is shocked by his wife when the show ends, and she has an answer ready: the Martians are thirty thousand years ahead of us.


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